Krista's Prep
Want to dig deeper? Find out more? For each program, producers gather a lot of background material for Krista and staff to use in preparing for interviews and producing programs. Here's a sample of the information we came across in preparing for this program.
Work with the Disabled
In 2003, Le Pichon moved to Sisteron in the south of France to coordinate the work of the Thomas Philippe House (La Maison Thomas Philippe), a facility that helps people with psychologically ill family members. The property is also referred to as la Pène. (Note that the site from La Maison Thomas Philippe is in French. You can view a translated version of the site here.)
New and Noteworthy
- Le Pichon co-Chaired the Templeton Foundation-sponsored Learning from the Disabled conference in France in 2007. This conference was held near the site of Jean Vanier's first l'Arche community.
- Le Pichon participated in a panel at the 2009 World Science Festival in New York City: What it Means to be Human:The Enigma of Altruism.
Selected Prizes/Awards
- A list of professional prizes Le Pichon has won can be found on his International Center for Scientific Research bio page here.
Audio
- Le Pichon was referenced as a source in a 2003 BBC story about underwater fault lines and earthquakes in Turkey.
Selected Books and Publications
- "Ecce Homo: To welcome the suffering is the sign of our humanity." By Xavier Le Pichon (An essay to be published by Templeton Press in 2009)
- An earlier version of Le Pichon’s "Ecce Homo" essay is featured in the book Spiritual Information: 100 Perspectives on Science and Religion Templeton Press, ed. Charles L. Harper (2005).
- Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History of the Modern Theory of the Earth, Westview Press, (2001) ed. by Naomi Oreskes. Le Pichon has a chapter: "My Conversion to Plate Tectonics."
- Le Pichon is referenced on pp. 71-72 of the book, 50 Years of Ocean Discovery (2000).
- Le Pichon has published several books in French that are not currently available in English. These include:
- La Mort (The Death), Desclée de Brouwer, Paris, 154p., 1999.
- Communication et communion L'Arche-La Ferme (Communication and Communion The Ark-La Ferme), 133p. 1998
- Aux Racines de l’homme : de la mort à l’amour, (For the roots of man from death to love) Presses de la Renaissance , 294 p., 1997.