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Exhibition Made in Sheffield has opened at the city's Millennium Gallery to showcase Sheffield's design talent.
Curated by Museums Sheffield, the exhibition celebrates over 150 Sheffield-born companies through a range of inventive and visually striking displays.
The main aim of the exhibition, according to Kirstie Hamilton, head of exhibitions and displays at Museums Sheffield, is to “showcase the region's most creative design talent, working at the forefront of manufacturing, engineering and technological industries.
“The displays cover a range of specialisms from global aeronautical engineering and world-class advanced manufacturing to ground-breaking digital industries and artisan makers who are masters of their craft.”
Some of the must-see exhibits on show are the world's fastest sled used by English motorcycle racer Guy Martin to break the world speed record for the fastest gravity powered sled, a GEM engine made by Rolls Royce used in Boeing aircrafts, 3D printed medical prosthetics and a skeletal hand made from ReproBone; an implantable synthetic bone graft which acts as a scaffold to support and promote bone repair before it eventually dissolves in the body.
“Over the next six months, we're turning the Millennium Gallery into a 21st century ‘Crystal Palace' to celebrate the incredible achievements of makers and manufacturers in the region,” says Kim Streets, chief executive at Museums Sheffield.
“Made in Sheffield will shine a spotlight on the diverse ideas, developments, products and progress that see makers and businesses in the city at the top of their field.”
The Made in Sheffield exhibition forms part of The Year of Making a city-wide initiative celebrating Sheffield's international reputation and is running between 6 July 2016 and 8 January 2017. Entry is free.
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National Museums Scotland has teamed up with animation studio Aardman to create an educational animated game that draws on its existing biomedical collection.
GEN, which can be played online using a computer, smartphone or tablet, involves players diagnosing what is wrong with GEN Aaardman's digital creature character and nursing it back to full health.
The strategy game allows players to choose from various medical-related objects, ranging from wooden stethoscopes to early X-Ray machines, all of which can actually be found at the museum's science and technology galleries.
Laura Chilcott, senior digital producer at Aardman, says the partnership with National Museums Scotland “has been a great opportunity for us to use our skills both to educate a new audience, and also to enhance the museum's biomedical displays.”
One of the design features includes GEN itself. “It's a simplistic amorphous blob which has realistic physics applied to its body, so can be pulled and prodded around,” says Gav Strange, senior designer at Aardman.
“As the illness takes effect on it, we wanted the player to feel empathy towards our gelatinous friend, so they would care for GEN and work hard to diagnose its ailments and use the right treatment to bring it back to life.”
Meanwhile, the interface has been designed to strike a balance between “clean and clinical”, according to Strange.
“We didn't want the interface and the design to feel cold, but at the same time we didn't want to add anything superfluous,” he says.
The design of the character acted as a balancing aid, Strange adds. While GEN has texture and an organic shape, the interface has been kept clean.
GEN's launch comes after the museum recently opened 10 new galleries dedicated to applied art, design, fashion, science and technology, as part of a £14.1 million renovation.
The app runs alongside 250 interactive displays at the museums, including a CT scan of a person that can be viewed from all angles showing different layers of muscle, gas and bone, and a game that allows users to design a clinical drug trial.
“[GEN] is one of a number of fun ways we're introducing some fairly complex ideas of medical science to a wider audience,” says Sarah Goggins, assistant curator for biomedicine at National Museums Scotland.
“We hope lots of people will get online to play…as well as getting an insight into some of the amazing objects now on show”.
National Museums Scotland looks after museums including the National Museum of Scotland, National Museum of Flight, National Museum of Rural Life and National War Museum.
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The historic space opened in 1875 and although built to hold 3,000 will reopen as a multifunctional space for up to 1,300
An abandoned Victorian theatre hidden inside Alexandra Palace that has been closed to audiences for more than 80 years could soon reopen after a campaign was launched to restore it.
The existence of the “frozen in time” theatre is not widely known but it is considered one of the most architecturally significant and historic parts of the entertainment complex in north London, built in the 1870s as “the People's Palace”.
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Political drama on television is finished. No fictional version could match the vicious infighting in both main political parties in Britain that followed the vote on June 23 by the British people to leave the European Union. What the vote revealed is a growing and dangerous divide between the political class, often a metropolitan elite, and a large number of people who feel left out of the economic prosperity centered on London and disenfranchised by “political correctness.”![]("http://chimpfeedr.com/img/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fnybooks%2F%7E4%2FasuUfPW-H4I&width=540&mix=42dfe-culture")
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On one side of the new conflict are those who advocate more openness: toward minorities at home and toward engagement with the world on the outside. On the other side we find the Le Pens, Farages, and Trumps: close the nation-state off by shutting borders and thereby, or so they promise, take back control; but also, preserve the traditional hierarchies that have come under threat on the inside.![]("http://chimpfeedr.com/img/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fnybooks%2F%7E4%2FE21W3gocFVw&width=540&mix=42dfe-culture")
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the portable cinema allows one to see everyday situations as a succession of intertwined moments.
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the installation presents an artistic study of the decline and succession of natural materials, as the stems overhead gradually shift through the natural stages of life and decay.
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Sistine Chapel buttocks are veiled, while Leonardo's Leda was so saucy she was destroyed. But prudish censorship only confirms the pulling power of art
You never know what will offend people. Researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered that a skirt was crudely painted over the naked Eve in a Renaissance manuscript soon to go on view at the city's Fitzwilliam Museum. Some time between the 16th and 18th centuries a particularly prudish owner had this image bowdlerised, even though the nudity of Adam and Eve is a venerable and respectable religious theme.
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Faced with an invisible material and no whizzy inventions to show, this exhibition pays underwhelming homage to a Nobel prize-winning discovery
It's been hailed as the wonder material that will revolutionise everything from smartphones and car tyres to aeroplanes and condoms. But the problem with graphene, for the curators of a new exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry, is that you can't actually see it. And none of these potentially miraculous applications for the atom-thick material have actually been invented yet.
“There's never been so much expectation invested in a new material,” says Danielle Olsen, co-curator of Wonder Materials: Graphene and Beyond, which opened this week in the city where this mercurial form of super-thin carbon was first isolated in 2004. “It's under a lot of pressure to perform.”
Related: Graphene - the new wonder material
Membership Event: Private view of Wonder Materials: Graphene and Beyond
Continue reading...The largest ever 3D map of the universe strengthens astronomers' belief that three quarters of the cosmos is made of an unknown substance: ‘dark energy'
It is hard to know whether it's a success or a failure but modern astronomy tells us that almost three quarters of the universe is in the form of an unknown substance called “dark energy”.
Add to this the “dark matter” that astronomers are still searching for without success, and we think we live in a Universe where only two percent of it is the familiar atoms that make up you and I, stars and planets.
Continue reading...Had enough of tech? Sporting a big or any kind of unlikely looking beard or interestingly dyed hair? El Reg has found the perfect new job where you'll get paid handsomely to espouse the wonders of trendy beer.…
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