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Installation view, Moderna Museet, Hilma af Klint - A Pioneer of Abstraction (photo:© 2013 Åsa Lundén/ Moderna Museet) NASA Goddard Photo and Video posted a photo:
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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the remnants of a long-dead star. These rippling wisps of ionized gas, named DEM L316A, are located some 160,000 light-years away within one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors — the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).
The explosion that formed DEM L316A was an example of an especially energetic and bright variety of supernova, known as a Type Ia. Such supernova events are thought to occur when a white dwarf star steals more material than it can handle from a nearby companion, and becomes unbalanced. The result is a spectacular release of energy in the form of a bright, violent explosion, which ejects the star's outer layers into the surrounding space at immense speeds. As this expelled gas travels through the interstellar material, it heats up and ionizes it, producing the faint glow that Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 has captured here.
The LMC orbits the Milky Way as a satellite galaxy and is the fourth largest in our group of galaxies, the Local Group. DEM L316A is not the only supernova remnant in the LMC; Hubble came across another one in 2010 with SNR 0509, and in 2013 it snapped SNR 0519.
Image credit: ESA (European Space Agency)/Hubble & NASA, Y. Chu
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# Protection for the Greater Sage Grouse In March 2010, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) determined that listing the Greater SageGrouse as a threatened or endangered species was “warranted, but precluded.” The FWS determined that current and potential threats to Greater Sage-grouse habitat and inadequacy of existing regulatory mechanisms pose “a significant threat to the Greater Sage-grouse now and in the foreseeable future.” The Bureau of Land Management - California and Bureau of L... !["OLYMPUS]("http://chimpfeedr.com/img/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fs3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com%2Fcentaur-wp%2Fdesignweek%2Fprod%2Fcontent%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F07%2F28171249%2FP7268543-667x500.jpeg&width=540&mix=22833-design")
RFA has designed Bradford's National Media Museum's new exhibition, In Your Face.
The exhibition has been created to explore the most photographed, examined and expressive feature of the human body: the face.
In a series of interactive demonstrations, displays and activities, it looks at how people and faces are represented in the media through mediums such as photographs and on screens.
The National Media Museum brought the consultancy on board earlier this year in May. Its brief was to design the exhibition to bring together all of the disparate elements in a coherent way, so that it doesn't matter what order people explore it in.
Interactive art, hands-on learning experiences and conventional museum exhibits are all displayed together. To give it a sense of coherency, creative director Richard Fowler and senior graphic designer Andrew Galvin introduced a new colour palette and a connecting line device that allows unconnected installations ranging from 1980s artefacts to contemporary interactive art to be joined using coloured graphics.
“Yellow is the main colour used in the branding material created by B&W Studio,” says Galvin.
“We then looked at developing colour palettes that were sympathetic with this, but altering the colours as the visitor progresses through the galleries gives the opportunity to create more diversity within the displays.”
Another key design feature is integrated learning stations that can be used by groups of visitors, according to Galvin.
“Simple 3D structures complement the graphic elements, offer surfaces for projection and a variety of interactive displays,” he says.
In Your Face runs until 30 October 2016.
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Published and printed by Balding + Mansell in 1963, 17 Graphic Designers London, a monochrome hard-back review of practitioners working in the capital, notably featured an array of what were to become illustrious names including Derek Birdsall, Bob Gill, Alan Fletcher, Colin Forbes, George Mayhew, Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert among others.
The very first of the elite names to be found in the pages of this slim, letterpress printed book was that of Dennis Bailey. Among his eminent peers, he was part of an emerging and dynamic post-war generation of designers, who were to pioneer the revolutionary development of British graphic design through the 1960s and beyond.
Despite enjoying far less fame than many of his contemporaries during his long and varied career, he held a well-established presence within the exalted ranks of his profession. His profile also featured in the very select listings of Thames and Hudson's Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers, alongside the world's leading international figures.
Born in Bognor Regis in 1931, Bailey trained in the years 1946-53 both at the Worthing Art School and the Royal College Of Art, where his fellow RCA students were David Gentleman, Alan Fletcher, Len Deighton and Raymond Hawkey.
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Bailey's early career saw him take to the continent twice the first as assistant editor of Graphis magazine in Zurich in 1956. In addition to seeing the work of US designer Saul Bass coming through the journal's office, the exposure to Swiss design was to greatly influence him over the next two decades, becoming one of the first foreign designers to work in the Swiss style on his return to London.
A subsequent spell in Paris between 1960-64 brought him work in advertising and publishing during which time he became the design and art editor of Olympia Review. During these years in the French capital he also worked on a film with his Swiss friend and designer Sandro Boccola that featured their mutual love for jazz. Despite the music having been recorded, the script written and the shooting schedule planned, the project then remained unrealised due to the last minute withdrawal of funding.
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Bailey became the subject of a profile in a later issue of Graphis (issue 99) from 1961 and he was described by writer Charles Rosner as “a strong individualist, reacting against what others might attempt to impose on him as a person; he himself imposes the greatest discipline on his work.”
Magazine design came to prominence once more in Bailey's role as art director of the influential Town magazine in London from 1964-66. It was an area he would often return to and later editorial design for AA Files (Architectural Association journal), The Listener, The Economist and New Statesman followed.
Writing autobiographically in Designer, the SIAD magazine (November 1980), and accompanied by his distinctive, idiosyncratic jacket-as-self-portrait cover illustration, Bailey reflected on being made an RDI:
“What fascinates me about graphic design is its immediacy. The timespan between conception and realisation can be extremely short, a matter of hours. Going into a magazine office in the morning knowing that there are two pages that must be filled that day and having to send the finished artwork down by 6pm is very exciting.
“I used to enjoy doing covers for The Economist: I'd go in on a Wednesday afternoon without any notion of even what the subject was to be and by Friday morning I could pick up a copy on the bookstalls (and if it wasn't quite as good as it might have been, there was always next week).”
From 1967 onwards he pursued his own freelance design and illustration practice, involving work such as books, magazine design and posters, in addition to forays into the specialised niche of exhibition graphics.
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Book cover commissions for Penguin Books saw Bailey become one of the many eminent designers whose creative prowess came to define the publisher's distinctive visual identity.
His list of other prestigious clients included that of The Royal Academy, RIBA, British Council, British Medical Association, NM Rothschild and The Arts Council.
Operating both collaboratively and independently, from 1987 he had combined with Mike Kenny to form Bailey & Kenny on projects such as The World in 1987, which continued all the way up to The World in 2016 an annual magazine for The Economist. Work also continued for Prospect magazine and the journal The Author.
Meanwhile Bailey undertook assignments for organisations promoting the awareness of climate change such as the Centre Technicole d'Agricole and The Hard Rain Project designing books and working on exhibitions.
He lectured in typography and design at the Central School Of Art & Design (1957-60), Chelsea School of Art (1970-81) and at Middlesex Polytechnic during the late 1980s.
In teaching, which he viewed as a master/apprentice role, he aimed at establishing a professional rapport with the students, becoming a mentor for aspiring graduates, where several of them were to find invaluable opportunities to work with him straight from college.
Himself a master of understated layout and restrained, elegantly disciplined typography, Bailey was one of a rare class of designer-illustrators who possessed an assured deftness of skill as a draughtsman. These were dual qualities greatly admired by his fellow RDI designer Mike Dempsey who said: “Dennis Bailey's subtlety with typography was equalled by the beautiful sensitivity of his illustrations.”
Bailey was a stringent self-disciplinarian unswerving in his commitment to his work who never saw a reason why he would want to retire so he never actually did.
In later years in order to continue to practice, he forcibly adapted himself to the radical technological changes in design production brought about by the advent of the computer.
In the 2007 commemorative volume of anecdotes in tribute to his great 1960s late contemporary Alan Fletcher, Bailey succinctly and astutely wrote: “Alan never used 10 words where one word would do”.
Diffident, quietly spoken and gentlemanly, Bailey's work often reflected his calm yet exacting manner. Designer, illustrator, art director and tutor, he was one of the few remaining independent craftsman-designers. His dominantly individualistic approach, range of abilities and expansive scope of work went beyond any definable categorisation.
Commenting on what he saw as the closely integrated relationship between graphic design and art in the same SIAD Designer magazine article of 1980 Bailey said:
“Graphic design has profited enormously from its close relationship with more serious art: it has had the pleasure of seeing artists pulling material out of graphic design techniques for doing things, or ways of thinking. There is a very satisfying give and take.
“That gives life to graphic design and the other revivifying influence is when designers initiate something entirely themselves which is not dependent on a client”.
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Stanton Williams and Asif Khan have been chosen to design the new Museum of London, after the shortlist was whittled down to six concepts in June.
The project comes as the museum moves to a new site in West Smithfield, central London, and is expected to open in 2022.
After a six-month competition that attracted more than 70 entries, they were selected from a shortlist of six architectural teams, including Lacaton & Vassal Architectes and Pernilla Ohrstedt Studio.
The judging panel was made up of figures from industries including arts, media, property, architecture and business.
It was chaired by broadcaster and economist Evan Davis, who says: “Stanton Williams and Asif Khan offered some really innovative thinking, and managed to combine a sensitivity to the heritage of the location, with a keen awareness of the practicalities of delivering a really functional museum.”
Key design features included in the early stage concept are a domed entrance to the museum, spiral escalators that transport visitors down to exhibition galleries in an excavated underground chamber, flexible spaces that can serve as venues for events and debates, a sunken garden and tranquil green spaces.
“Encountering the historic market spaces for the first time in early April this year, we were blown away by the power and physicality already existing,” says Paul Williams, director at Stanton Williams.
“[We] knew then, that whatever scheme we developed, this physicality needed to be harnessed, and not lost, and that initial observation has inspired our initial design proposals.”
The winning architects will now work closely with the team at the museum, conservation architect Julian Harrap, landscape design consultants J&L and the museum's stakeholders including the Greater London Authority, City of London Corporation and the local Smithfield community to develop their initial concepts further.
The museum intends to submit a planning application for the West Smithfield site to the City of London Corporation in 2018 and complete the new museum by 2022.
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What: Steven Heller and Gail Anderson's new book on typography follows on from The Graphic Design Idea Book, which they released last year. This book promises to be a “jargon-free” guide to typography, and includes examples and inspiration from the likes of Neville Brody, Milton Glaser and Eric Gill. Heller was previously the art director of the New York Times, while Anderson is a design writer and lecturer, and the book has been published by Laurence King.
When: Released in August 2016.
Info: The book is £12.95 and will be available to buy online here.
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What: Somerset House's annual alternative film poster exhibition returns this month, and will see the gallery's East Wing taken over by wacky print design interpretations. Print Club London has commissioned artists and illustrators to recreate posters designed for films show at Film4 Summer Screen, which this year includes the likes of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Robocop, Trainspotting and the Best of Ten by Kubrick.
When: 28 July 17 August 2016.
Where: East Wing, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA.
Info: Admission is free. The exhibition is open daily from 10am 6pm, and additionally from 6.30pm 9pm for Film4 Summer Screen ticket holders. See more info here.
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What: Unsuspecting travellers passing through Edinburgh Airport will experience an array of Scottish design this month. Local Heroes will present the work of nine contemporary designers spanning textiles, tech and product design, who have explored the concept of the souvenir. By placing it within the multicultural hub that is an airport, the exhibition director Stacey Hunter hopes to give Scottish design a “global presence”, and expects it will be accessible to 1.2 million passengers spanning 120 international destinations. The event has been supported by Creative Dundee and Creative Edinburgh.
When: 1 31 August 2016.
Where: East Terminal Plaza, Edinburgh Airport, Edinburgh, Midlothian EH12 9DN.
Info: Admission is free. See more info here.
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What: With its beautiful architecture and renowned Design Museum, Copenhagen is known as a city of design. Post is a design festival which takes a more academic stance it brings international illustrators, designers and academics together for talks, debates and workshops focusing on the ethics of design and work environments. The festival hopes to “encourage and inspire students, practitioners and educators”, and this year will see workshops from artists such as Supermundane and talks from academics including Lawrence Zeegen, the dean of the School of Design at Ravensbourne, London. At less than £50 for four days of talks, the festival will be a budget-friendly, intellectually stimulating addition to the summer.
When: 17 20 August 2016.
Where: Space 10, Flæsketorvet 10, 1711 Copenhagen, Denmark.
Info: Tickets cost 415 DKK (£47) with a booking fee, or 260 DKK (£29.50) for students. The full line-up is yet to be announced. See more info here.
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What: With Brazil's Olympic games set to kick off in August, we'll see the full roll-out of the Rio 2016 Olympic branding too, which was first revealed in 2014. Designed by Brazilian consultancy Tátil, the visual identity is based around a 3D logo of three human figures holding hands a “sculptural logo to represent a sculptural city”, says Tátil creative director Fred Gelli. The Paralympics logo adopts a similar style, but also incorporates an infinity symbol to represent the athletes' infinite energy and strength says Gelli, and has multi-sensory elements when in its physical 3D form. Read more here.
When: 5 21 August 2016.
Where: Various venues across Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Info: See more info on the Rio 2016 Olympics here.
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New visualisations have been released of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, which will become home to a new V&A outpost, UAL's London College of Fashion and performing arts theatre Sadler's Wells.
The Stratford Waterfront location, situated by the London Aquatics Centre at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London is expected to be delivered by 2020/21.
Collectively the area will be known as the Cultural and Education District. It will comprise the V&A building which is an 18,000m2 museum focusing on the digital age, neighboured by the 550 seat Sadler's Wells theatre and the new London College of Fashion also home to 6,500 students.
The district is being designed by a consortia of architectural practices master-planned by Allied and Morrison, which is also designing the London College of Fashion and residential areas. O'Donnell + Tuomey is working on the V&A and Sadler's Wells projects. Arquitecturia is designing a bridge.
A spokesman for The Queen Elizabeth Park, which is run by the London Legacy Development Corporation, says that interior design of the buildings will be the responsibility of the V&A, the London College of Fashion and Sadler's Wells.
The new visualisations have been created by Forbes Massie on behalf of the architects. Designs are still being honed ahead of planning applications, which will be submitted by the end of the year.
University College London will also have a new campus at the Cultural and Education District, marking its largest expansion since 1826. It will take 3,000 students and 625 staff.
The Queen Elizabeth Park, which is run by the London Legacy Development Corporation says it wants the district to provide a showcase for innovation and creativity across arts and education, science and technology.
London Legacy Development Corporation executive director of regeneration, Rosanna Lawes, says: “In a few short years we will see not only a new cultural and education district in east London with some of the world's leading institutions sitting in the heart of the Park, but new neighbourhoods and business districts and hugely successful sporting venues delivering on the legacy promises made for the 2012 Games.”
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Does our universe go on forever? Or does it have boundaries? And what clues can science uncover? Join us for a journey into the unknown
In this first instalment of our Big Unknowns mini-series, Nicola Davis delves into the world of cosmology to tackle one of its biggest questions - is our universe infinite? With cosmologist and author Dr Christophe Galfard for a guide, we travel to the outermost boundaries of space and time in search of answers. Along the way, we'll discuss the concept of infinity with University of Cambridge mathematician Professor John Barrow. We also hear from UCL cosmologist Professor Hiranya Peiris, who uses satellite data to probe the “afterglow” of the Big Bang in the hope of revealing clues about the evolution and the nature of our universe.
Continue reading...Our stargazing readers share their best photographs from the past year, from spectacular nebulae to close-ups of the moon
Trust says preparing 17 months of accounts is to match financial year but delay adds to critics' concerns over project's running costs and private donations
The charity behind London's proposed garden bridge has delayed publishing its full accounts for five months, adding to concerns that the financing of the project could be in trouble.
The Garden Bridge Trust, which aims to begin work later this year on the 367-metre tree and plant-filled structure across the Thames, said the delay in filing accounts to Companies House and the Charities Commission was simply an administrative matter.
Related: Why build the garden bridge when we could plant trees on Blackfriars?
Continue reading...Whether the job at hand was the rehousing of Londoners or the dining arrangements of Oxford fellows, the architect John Partridge, who has died aged 91, was a natural problem solver. To housing, colleges, courthouses and theatres alike he brought a combination of creative flair, social purpose and sound building technique qualities rarely seen together in contemporary architecture.
Among his most celebrated projects was the creation, with his partners, Bill Howell, John Killick and Stan Amis, of 2,000 homes for London County Council in tower blocks at Roehampton. In Oxford, the Hilda Besse building for St Antony's College, probably his finest built work, is an essay in how each part comes together to make an intricate yet ordered whole, while in his halls of residence for St Anne's College, strongly modelled facades refract the daylight entering the interiors and frame views out. He was always creative and conscientious.
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Robert Gordon has written a magnificent book on the economic history of the United States over the last one and a half centuries. His study focuses on what he calls the “special century” from 1870 to 1970—in which living standards increased more rapidly than at any time before or after. The book is without peer in providing a statistical analysis of the uneven pace of growth and technological change, in describing the technologies that led to the remarkable progress during the special century, and in concluding with a provocative hypothesis that the future is unlikely to bring anything approaching the economic gains of the earlier period.![]("http://chimpfeedr.com/img/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fnybooks%2F%7E4%2F8bgPfbypCLM&width=540&mix=42dfe-culture")
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The first hooded crane chick hatched at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. (Photo: Chris Crowe)
The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) hatched its first hooded crane chick June 14. The chick was born as the result of artificial insemination. The chick is being raised by its parents and appears to be doing well. This is the first chick for Tempest (female) and Mr. Crane (male).
SCBI is now home to eight of the 26 birds in the Hooded Crane Species Survival Plan in North America. There are less than 8,000 hooded cranes in the wild and the species is classified as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
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The first hooded crane chick hatched at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. (Photo: Chris Crowe)
SCBI has a successful crane breeding program. In addition to the birth of this hooded crane chick, 40 white-naped cranes have been born at SCBI. Twenty of those chicks were born as the result of artificial inseminations.
SCBI plays a leading role in the Smithsonian's global efforts to save wildlife species from extinction and train future generations of conservationists. SCBI spearheads research programs at its headquarters in Front Royal, Virginia, the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C., and at field research stations and training sites worldwide. SCBI scientists tackle some of today's most complex conservation challenges by applying and sharing what they learn about animal behavior and reproduction, ecology, genetics, migration and conservation sustainability.
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“I can't quite explain why I harbored high hopes for Bad Moms, a comedy about three stressed-out Chicago mothers on an empowerment bender,” Slate's film critic Dana Stevens writes of the movie from the creators of The Hangover, the one that could have portrayed motherhood in a post-Bridesmaids, postBroad City, completely 2016 kind of way. Unfortunately, “the dad minds behind Bad Moms don't seem to understand, or be terribly curious about, the minds of mothers,” Stevens concludes. Elissa Strauss, looking at what the movie gets right and wrong about motherhood today, had a more charitable take: “Seeing a group of funny moms have dude-comedy-style fun in a competition-free atmosphere is a much-needed corrective to the frazzled, uptight moms that we usually see onscreen.”
The gals of Bad Moms were hardly the only moms on our minds this week. In fact, right now moms are having a bit of a moment. (Mom-ment?) Decidedly not-bad mom Hillary Clinton became the first woman (and first mom) to clinch a major party's presidential nomination (but what will we call Bill?) at the Democratic National Convention, and Michelle Obama mothered a nation in her radical Democratic National Convention speech. Dads go hand-in-hand with moms, and this week we got to know vice presidential Democratic nominee Tim Kaine and quickly decided that he is a total dad, of the bad-joke-making, multiple-harmonica-carrying, balloon-kicking variety. Chelsea Clinton, she of underappreciated '90s style and still-unwritten public persona, spoke at the DNC too, shouting out A Wrinkle in Time and sending its sales soaring in the process. The only thing that would have made the week better is if Hillary had quoted more Hamilton lines in her speech.
What else is going on besides moms and politics? In these dog days of summer, there's a MadTV reboot out, and it's a far cry from the show's original incarnation. The Absolutely Fabulous movie pokes fun at, or maybe exposes the hypocrisy of, society. We're pondering how after the Looking movie/finale, HBO may no longer be the go-to place for LGBTQ stories. Bojack Horseman tackled abortion, the new Star Trek movie didn't tackle disability, Mr. Robot loves its Kubrick references, and Taye Diggs may be unfollowing you on Twitter right now.
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It's been 37 years since The Village People's hit song In the Navy associated the armed service with an acceptance of homosexuality.…
The Atlantic's Molly Ball explores Hillary Clinton's image of composure in the midst of a troubled country.
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The tiger population of Nepal's Parsa Wildlife Reserve has increased markedly, according to a camera trap study released on International Tiger Day (today) by Panthera and the the Zoological Society of London (ZSL).
The Government of Nepal's Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC), National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC), Panthera, the global wild cat conservation organization, and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) collaborated to carry out the 2016 population survey in Parsa as part of their ongoing partnership to protect and monitor tigers throughout the lowlands of Nepal, Panthera and ZL said in a news statement.
Nepal's Director General of the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Krishna Acharya said, “The tiger population in Parsa Wildlife Reserve has significantly increased since the last census. This is fantastic news for tigers and it demonstrates that Nepal's dedicated conservation efforts are delivering clear results. Nepal has committed to doubling its tiger population by 2022 and encouraging results like these show that we are on track to achieve that.”
Today, just 3,900 wild tigers remain in all of Asia, largely due to poaching for the illegal wildlife trade, the statement added. “Nepal is estimated to support 163-235 tigers, according to a 2013 population survey. The 2016 survey confirms that Parsa specifically has seen around a 45 percent annual increase in its tiger population.”
Beacon of Hope
Panthera Senior Tiger Program Director John Goodrich stated, “The impressive rise in Parsa's tiger numbers has been fuelled by the natural movement of animals from neighboring Chitwan as conditions in Parsa have improved over the past three years. This is a testament to how law enforcement and strong government leadership can change the game for tigers. At a time when poachers are waging an all-out war against wildlife, Nepal serves as a beacon of hope for the tiger.”
ZSL's Conservation Programmes Director Jonathan Baillie said, “Success for tiger conservation requires viable habitats, stringent protection, effective monitoring and community engagement and when those conditions are in place, tiger numbers will flourish as Parsa has demonstrated very clearly. Nepal's exemplary track record in conserving its iconic wildlife makes it a conservation leader in the South Asian region.”
Nepal's tremendous commitment to increasing coordinated law enforcement activities, harsh prosecution for poachers, and wildlife monitoring sets the nation apart from many other tiger range states, ZSL and Panthera continued in their statement. “Hundreds of dedicated personnel from the Nepal Army and DNPWC jointly patrol Parsa Wildlife Reserve and other protected areas, preventing poaching of Nepal's iconic wildlife, from the tiger to the greater one-horned rhinoceros. Yet there is still much work to be done.”
Parsa's tiger rebound can also be attributed to the empowerment of the country's National Park and Wildlife Reserve Wardens, who maintain the authority to arrest, convict and sentence poachers. the two wildlife conservation organizations said. “This model is in stark contrast to many tiger range states where poachers often escape with little to no jail time or fines, even after sentencing.”
“The success of these stringent anti-poaching efforts is especially evident in neighboring Chitwan National Park. Acting as a source population for Parsa, tigers from Chitwan have moved into the adjoining landscape, accelerating population recovery, and ultimately creating a larger more viable population that extends across both protected areas.
“Since 2014, Panthera and ZSL have collaborated in Parsa Wildlife Reserve to monitor tigers and their prey using camera traps, and provide training for effective law enforcement and use of SMART, a computer-based platform that improves the effectiveness of wildlife patrols.
“Parsa is also a trial site for innovative conservation technologies, which have been effectively deployed to provide valuable information to park managers. This includes ZSL's seismic and magnetic sensors and Panthera's PoacherCam a remote camera that distinguishes people from wildlife and can transmit images to law enforcement, to stop poaching before it happens.
“ZSL in partnership with DNPWC has also recently equipped and supported the deployment of a state of the art Rapid Response Patrol team in Parsa, which further strengthens the capacity of the park management to prevent tiger poaching before it takes place.
“Over the next few years Panthera and ZSL plan to expand their efforts to support the Government of Nepal in its tiger conservation initiatives across three other protected areas that are home to tigers in the lowlands of Nepal.”
Learn more about Panthera's Tigers Forever Program
Learn more about ZSL's conservation efforts in Asia
This post was compiled from materials sent by Panthera and ZSL.
The 17th Conference of the Parties to CITES in Johannesburg at the end of September is the perfect opportunity for China, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam to announce real action to end demand for tiger parts and products, Debbie Banks, leader of the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) Tiger Campaign, said in a statement released in observance of Global Tiger Day (#TigerDay).
“Acting in unison in 2007, we had a major win for tigers when governments agreed that tiger ‘farming' should be stopped. But instead of complying with that decision, the governments of China, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam have allowed tiger farming and trade to spiral out of control,” Banks said. “How real is their commitment to save tigers?”
In readiness for the CITES conference, and in observance of Global Tiger Day today, July 29, EIE released the video embedded on this page. “It is fantastic to see organisations from across the world unite in this call to action to end tiger farming,” Banks said of a joint statement signed by 45 non-governmental organizations to end commercial breeding of the world's largest cat.
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Ride-hailing companies like Uber have claimed that they've helped discourage drunk driving. Does the claim stand up? David Kirk, co-author of a new study in the American Journal of Epidemiology, tells NPR's Kelly McEvers he's not so sure.
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Bessie White and her sister, Velma, founded the farmers' market in Cortez, Colorado, almost half a century ago. In this charming short documentary from the world-traveling web series The Perennial Plate, White shares her story—and also how to make delicious strawberry-rhubarb pie. “I helped all three of my grandkids go to college with this famers' market,” she says. “I didn't set out to be any different than anybody else.”
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Babies who are at risk of developing cerebral palsy could be helped by a robotic “onesie”, designed by a team at the University of Oklahoma, US.
The motorised exoskeleton, which is attached to the baby via a harness and skateboard-type-crawler, helps young children develop motor and cognitive skills and promotes early movement.
With power steering, the Self-Initiated Prone Progression Crawler (SIPPC) device gives babies a push towards early walking and crawling on the level of their peers.
Not only that, but it allows doctors to monitor the child's movement and brain activity on a 3D scanner.
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Toddler Dedicated To Guiding His Twin Sister With Cerebral Palsy Through Childhood
Cerebral palsy affects movement and muscle coordination and is diagnosed in every two children in 1000 born in the UK, according to Cerebral Palsy UK.
Therapy to reverse the effects of the disease must start as early as possible, but most children are not diagnosed until they are at least one-year-old.
Trials are currently ongoing with 56 infants in America, and the scientists admit there is much more to be done before it is more widely available to patients.
The new technology is enabling detection in babies as young as two months old, giving them the best start in life.
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Babies who are at risk of developing cerebral palsy could be helped by a robotic “onesie”, designed by a team at the University of Oklahoma, US.
The motorised exoskeleton, which is attached to the baby via a harness and skateboard-type-crawler, helps young children develop motor and cognitive skills and promotes early movement.
With power steering, the Self-Initiated Prone Progression Crawler (SIPPC) device gives babies a push towards early walking and crawling on the level of their peers.
Not only that, but it allows doctors to monitor the child's movement and brain activity on a 3D scanner.
SEE ALSO
Toddler Dedicated To Guiding His Twin Sister With Cerebral Palsy Through Childhood
Cerebral palsy affects movement and muscle coordination and is diagnosed in every two children in 1000 born in the UK, according to Cerebral Palsy UK.
Therapy to reverse the effects of the disease must start as early as possible, but most children are not diagnosed until they are at least one-year-old.
Trials are currently ongoing with 56 infants in America, and the scientists admit there is much more to be done before it is more widely available to patients.
The new technology is enabling detection in babies as young as two months old, giving them the best start in life.
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@AndrewNehring a common delusion: lobbyist at @ALEC_States forgets that most people don't have 6-7 figure income. #alecexposed #alecindy
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Today we're thrilled to do our first post from our Neighborhood Portrait series with DNAinfo Chicago! This Overview shows Maggie Daley Park in Chicago, Illinois, USA. To read the full story, click here:
The park's Buckingham Fountain stands out in this Overview with its ornate design and serve as a gathering point for thousands of visitors at the Lollapalooza festival this weekend. We're excited to launch this series with DNAinfo, bringing together a collection of images celebrating the uniqueness and beauty of neighborhoods in New York and Chicago.
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On Global Tiger Day this year, 45 NGOs released a joint statement raising the alarm of increasing tiger poaching and call for ending all tiger farming and tiger trade:
Today on International Tiger Day we the undersigned 45 non-governmental organisations are urging countries with tiger farms to adopt urgent action to end tiger breeding for commercial purposes and phase out tiger farms.
The global wild tiger population is estimated to be less than 4,000. These last remaining wild tigers are each threatened by trade for nearly all of their body parts from skins and bones to teeth and claws traded by criminals for huge profit. These products are consumed largely as exotic luxury products for demonstrating social status, such as tiger skin rugs for luxury home décor or expensive tiger bone wine. Tiger bone is also consumed as traditional medicine. The main market for tiger products are consumers in China and Vietnam, followed by smaller consumer markets in Myanmar and Laos.
There are currently two primary sources for trade in tiger parts and products: wild tigers in ten range countries that are home to the last remaining wild tigers, and captive tigers largely found in four tiger farming countries China, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam.
Tiger farming and trade in captive tiger body parts from and through these countries undermines tiger conservation efforts across Asia. Indeed trade in captive tiger parts and products stimulates demand for tiger products be it from wild or captive tigers and undermines enforcement efforts by making it difficult to know whether seized tiger products come from wild or captive tigers.
Tiger farms have expanded rapidly over the last few decades. In the four tiger farming countries alone there are approximately 7,000 8,000 captive tigers in large tiger farms, zoos and smaller facilities that keep or breed tigers.
The wild tiger population has declined by over 95 percent over the last 100 years. 2016 has also marked a significant upsurge in tiger poaching and trade where in India more tigers were killed in the first five months of 2016 that in the whole of 2015.
The tiger range countries where tiger populations are beginning to show signs of recovery have high levels of political commitment, strong laws and enforcement and no tiger farms. Where tiger farms are present they only serve as an obstacle to recovery. In recent years China and Thailand have both delivered important new tiger conservation efforts on the ground. Despite this investment, the effects of tiger farms limit the potential gains from such work, as well as damaging those countries' reputation in the area of species conservation.
We commend the recent bold enforcement efforts of Thailand's Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP), which in June 2016 seized 137 live tigers thousands of tiger skin amulets, 70 preserved cubs and other tiger parts from the “Tiger Temple” in Kanchanaburi Province. The DNP has announced that it will investigate other captive tiger facilities implicated in tiger trade. This represents a significant opportunity for Thailand to end all tiger farming within its borders and to play a leadership role in the phase-out of tiger farms in the region.
Other countries should also take action to ensure that they are not implicated in the trade in captive tiger parts and products. For example, there appears to be a growing trade in tigers and their parts and products from South Africa. The United States also has a large number of captive tigers which may too become vulnerable to exploitation for illegal trade.
The world needs to wake up to the alarm bells ringing across the tiger's range. It is clear that tiger farming and trade in captive tiger parts have done nothing to end the pressure on and trade in wild tigers. In September this year, world governments will come together in South Africa to participate in the 17th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). The CITES conference offers a significant opportunity for governments to adopt and call for urgent implementation of concrete measures to phase out tiger farms.
If wild tiger populations are to be recovered and secured, the international community must provide support to end tiger farming and all trade in tiger parts and products from wild and captive tigers. We the undersigned, including those with technical expertise in managing captive tigers, stand ready to provide assistance to achieve the goals of Zero Demand for tiger parts and products and Zero Poaching of tigers.
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By Gabriel Fava, Born Free Foundation
Today, the 29th of July, is International Tiger Day. Does the day represent a cause for celebration, alarm, or both?
Celebrate, by all means the existence of magnificent creatures like the tiger seems barely credible, and our lives are certainly made richer by their presence in the world. But sadly their uniqueness and majesty makes their continued existence far from assured.
A hundred years ago there were an estimated 100,000 tigers spread across parts of central Asia and from the eastern coast of Russia down through most of east, southeast and south Asia. Since then a catastrophic loss of range and multiple threats have led to a precipitous decline in tiger populations. Now, less than 4,000 remain, predominantly in India. Sadly, despite this well-documented decline and our universal awe of tigers, we continue to persecute them in tourist attractions; breed them in captivity for the wealth generated by their body parts and products; push them out of their habitats by building roads, railways, settlements, mines and dams; encroach on their forest homes with settlements and palm oil plantations; poach their prey; kill them in retaliation for livestock and human deaths; and of course hunt them for the perceived value in their skins, claws, teeth and bones.
Tiger poaching for the illegal trade in tiger parts and products is widely recognised as a primary threat to the species' future, yet this threat shows no sign of being substantially addressed: between January and March 2016, the highest level of tiger killing in India for 15 years took place, with at least 25 tigers killed.
Simultaneously, a key threat to tigers continues to be largely unrecognised. This comes from tiger ‘farms' and similar facilities in countries such as China, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand, which keep and breed some 7,000 captive tigers. The skins from these animals are taxidermied and turned into rugs for ‘luxury' home décor, and their skeletons are soaked in vats of wine to make tiger bone ‘health tonic'. These facilities not only present serious animal welfare problems, but also undermine wild tiger conservation efforts through the increased availability of tiger parts and products, which in turn actively stimulates the demand for their more ‘potent' and often cheaper counterparts from the wild.
Today, on International Tiger Day, a number of wildlife charities are raising the profile of this threat and asking you to do the same, for a future with tigers.
More information from Born Free: Tigers, International Tiger Day
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Ken Ono is an award-winning mathematician who specializes in number theory. As a kid, his parents pushed him hard to be the best, and it almost drove him to ruin. He talked to SPIEGEL about young prodigies, suicide in Japanese culture and divine afflatus. Edward Swift posted a photo:
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Sleep is crucial for helping your brain to catalogue what you've learned that day. But for millions of people with neurological disorders, the processes required to consolidate information simply don't work properly.
Now, scientists have discovered an unusual method that could help improve the memories of people with conditions such as autism, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia and major depressive disorder.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina used weak electric currents to target a specific area in the brains of sleeping volunteers. The non-invasive method strengthened memory in the participants, the study found.
Scientists have, for years, tried to understand how electrical brain activity generated during sleep affects memory. It has long been suspected that the so-called sleep spindles play a part.
“But we didn't know if sleep spindles enable or even cause memories to be stored and consolidated,” said senior author Flavio Frohlich.
“They could've been merely byproducts of other brain processes that enabled what we learn to be stored as a memory. But our study shows that, indeed, the spindles are crucial for the process of creating memories we need for every-day life. And we can target them to enhance memory.”
Frohlic's study represents the first time researchers have targeted sleep spindles without also increasing other natural electrical brain activity.
During the trial, 16 healthy male participants were tasked with performing two common memory exercises before they went to sleep.
The first involved associative word-pairing, while the second was a motor sequence tapping task. Half the group received a real transcranial alternating current stimulation (TACS), while the other half received a placebo.
The next morning, participants had to perform the same memory tests. There was no improvement in the word test scores of those who had received TACS, but there was a noted improvement when it came to performing the motor task.
“This demonstrated a direct causal link between the electric activity pattern of sleep spindles and the process of motor memory consolidation.” Frohlich said.
Caroline Lustenberger, PhD, first author and postdoctoral fellow in the Frohlich lab, said, “We're excited about this because we know sleep spindles, along with memory formation, are impaired in a number of disorders, such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer's. We hope that targeting these sleep spindles could be a new type of treatment for memory impairment and cognitive deficits.”
The findings were published in the journal Current Biology.
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