%feed http://www.designboom.com/art/ventricle-installations-softlab-festival-love-london-uk-07-30-2016/ iridescent ventricle installations by SOFTlab at festival of love in london
massive, light-weight aluminum structures clad in 3M solar-mirror film hang on either side of the southbank centre's royal festival hall in london.
%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ozy.com%2Ftrue-story%2Fthe-wild-ones-the-bond%2F71021&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 The Wild Ones: The Bond The Wild Ones is a documentary series following the intersecting lives of the men and horses at an Arizona prison. general
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%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ozy.com%2Frising-stars%2Fkeolu-foxs-mission-make-genetics-look-more-like-america%2F70905&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 Keolu Fox's Mission: Make Genetics Look More Like America This Hawaiian geneticist wants to make genetic research "more native." Here's what that looks like. general
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%feed http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nybooks/~3/7Z0YDLrBoDM/ Making Clinton Real In Philadelphia, Hillary Clinton needed not a makeover but a stripping away of the layers of self-protectiveness and caution. Throughout the week, the momentousness of the history being made competed with the Clinton campaign's quite evident strategic goals. But then, when the first woman presidential candidate appeared on the stage to claim the nomination, the importance of that moment was impossible to dismiss. culture
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%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.seattletimes.com%2Fnation-world%2Fphotos-of-the-day-july-30-2016%2F%3Futm_source%3DRSS%26utm_medium%3DReferral%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_photos-of-the-day&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 Photos of the Day: July 30, 2016 Explore the news of the day with these images from around the world. images
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%feed http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheDailyGalaxyNewsFromPlanetEarthBeyond/~3/mxzT5gE3FZI/is-jupiters-volcanic-moon-io-poised-to-top-its-monster-surt-eruption-the-most-powerful-eruption-ever.html Is Jupiter's Moon Io Poised to Top Its Titanic Surt Volcano Eruption? --"The Most Powerful Ever Observed in Our Solar System"
In February 2001 an eruption from the Surt volcano on the Jupiter-facing hemisphere of Io, the volcanic epi-center of our solar system, occurred with an estimated output of 78,000 Gigawatts. By comparison, the 1992 eruption of Mt Etna, Sicily, was estimated at 12 Gigawatts. During its peak, observed by the WM Keck II Telescope on Hawaii, its output almost matched the eruptive power of all of Io's active volcanoes combined.
"It is clear that this eruption is the most energetic ever seen, both on Io and on Earth," Franck Marchis and Imke de Pater, professor of astronomy and of earth and planetary science at UC Berkeley. "The Surt eruption appears to cover an area of 1,900 square kilometers, which is larger than the city of Los Angeles and even larger than the entire city of London. The total amount of energy being released by the eruption is amazingly high, with the thermal output from this one eruption almost matching the total amount of energy emitted by all of the rest of Io, other volcanoes included."
"This eruption is truly massive," said Ashley Davies, PhD, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who aided in modeling the eruption. "The observed energy indicates the presence of a vigorous, high-temperature volcanic eruption. The kind of eruption to produce this thermal signature has incandescent fire fountains of molten lava which are kilometers high, propelled at great speed out of the ground by expanding gases, accompanied by extensive lava flows on the surface."
Io's volcanism has been monitored for the last eight years by the Galileo spacecraft and now, with the advent of adaptive optics systems, by Earth-bound astronomers such as those at the Keck 11 Observatory on Maui, Hawaii and the Gemini North Observatory.
Thanks to an orbital resonance with two of its neighboring moons, Europa and Ganymede, Io is continuously squeezed. The resulting friction heats Io's interior enough to create a mushy magma ocean only 50 kilometers (30 miles) beneath its surface. It is likely that this partially molten asthenosphere provides the source for basaltic silicate lava that erupts at hundreds of volcanoes across Io's surface (though future missions to Io will be needed to confirm the existence of this magma ocean). Recent ground-based observations shed new light on the most powerful of Io's volcanic eruptions.
This volcanic activity has been monitored over the last 35 years by ground-based observatories, the Hubble Space Telescope, and several spacecraft that have visited Jupiter over the years. Unfortunately, the most recent spacecraft to visit the Jupiter system was New Horizons seven years ago and the next spacecraft to visit the system, the European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE), will not arrive until 2030. In the meantime, ground-based observations can make a significant contribution toward filling the gap, regularly monitoring Io's volcanic activity.
Many of Io's volcanoes are persistent, meaning they maintain relatively consistent levels and styles of activity for years or even decades. Examples include Pele, a lava lake whose thin crust is regularly broken up by churning from below, and Prometheus, a lava flow field that heats up the sulfur dioxide frost below it to produce an umbrella-shaped plume of gas and dust 100 kilometers (62 miles) tall.
Many of Io's lava lakes and lava flow fields (some reaching 300 kilometers or 186 miles in length) are persistent, but can show significant fluctuations in activity. However, some volcanoes are much less regular in their volcanic activity, remaining quiescent for years before experiencing “outburst” eruptions. These outbursts can begin suddenly, starting at fissures in Io's crust, and generate fire fountains that can jet lava up to a kilometer (0.62 miles) into space before falling back to the ground to produce extensive lava flows. Over the course of hours and days, outburst eruptions quiet down as the fire fountaining subsides and lava flows through insulated channels along the surface.
Recent observations by astronomers Imke de Pater, Katherine de Kleer, and Ashley Davies at the Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF), Gemini-North and Keck II Observatories atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii revealed an astonishing three outburst eruptions over the course of two weeks in August 2013 at Rarog Patera, Heno Patera, and an unnamed volcano 350 kilometers (217 miles) west of Isum Patera (201308C).
All three eruptions are among the 10 most powerful eruptions ever observed on Io (the most powerful was the eruption at Surt, which was three times more powerful than the 201308C eruption, which is the second or third most).
The Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over to northeastern Iran, the second largest country in the Middle East.
A dryland area, most of Iran's territory is classified as arid and semi-arid, about half of which is characterised by rangeland, barren land and mountains.
Visible in the centre of the image and at top left are alluvial fans. These are formed when streams or rivers hit plains and spread out. They represent the distinct pattern of water runoff from the mountains, where the eroded soil, with the help of rain, is carried from the mountain slopes to lower lands.
At top left, resembling brush strokes in a painting, seasonal accumulation of water and various salt minerals is evident in greys and whites.
Scattered throughout the image are many agricultural plots, distinct in such an arid and mountainous region, which also features various rocky formations.
At the far right, the city of Bajestan is visible, with many agricultural fields around it. It is a city with a population of some 11 000, with saffron and pomegranate its most important products, grown in the various plots on the left.
The shades of red indicate how sensitive the multispectral instrument on Sentinel-2A is to differences in chlorophyll content, providing key information on vegetation health.
Various towns or settlements are represented in greys throughout the image.
This false-colour image also featured on the Earth from Space video programme was captured by Sentinel-2A on 22 February 2016. The satellite is the first in the two-satellite Sentinel-2 mission for Europe's Copernicus programme, carrying a wide-swath high-resolution instrument with 13 spectral bands, for a new perspective on our land and vegetation.
Copyright Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2016), processed by ESA
This false-colour image also featured on the Earth from Space video programme was captured by Sentinel-2A on 22 February 2016. The satellite is the first in the two-satellite Sentinel-2 mission for Europe's Copernicus programme, carrying a wide-swath high-resolution instrument with 13 spectral bands, for a new perspective on our land and vegetation.
%feed https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160728143612.htm Chorus of black holes radiates X-rays The NuSTAR mission is identifying which black holes erupt with the highest-energy X-rays, report scientists. The results will ultimately help astronomers understand how the growth patterns of supermassive black holes change over time, a key factor in the development of black holes and the galaxies that host them. astronomy
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%feed https://www.pinterest.com/pin/112027109460788198/ Scott Crossfield sit Scott Crossfield sits in a thermal-vacuum chamber during tests of a prototype XMC-2 pressure suit | Photo Credit: Boeing pin-astro
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%feed https://www.pinterest.com/pin/302937512418598280/ Ethiopia: - coffee c Ethiopia: - coffee ceremony by the type of her tradtional dress most-likely from Gonder or Wolo region #Ethiopia#Africa#Hagereseb pin-images
%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=http%3A%2F%2Fredirect.viglink.com%2F%3Fu%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.slate.com%252Fblogs%252Fbrowbeat%252F2016%252F07%252F30%252Fwatch_the_amazing_opening_sequence_of_beyond_westworld.html%26key%3Dddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 r0B0t: Watch the Amazing Opening Sequence of the Westworld TV Show (From 1980)
At Saturday's Television Critics Association press tour, HBO's new president of programming Casey Bloys and Westworldexecutive producer Lisa Joy both faced questions about the sexualized violence against women in their upcoming TV adaptation of Michael Crichton's 1973 film. Their answers didn't seem to satisfy the assembled critics, particularly after they'd seen the show's first episode, which reportedly opens with the off-screen rape of a robot played by Evan Rachel Wood. Audiences won't have the chance to judge for themselves whether or not HBO has made yet another show that fetishizes violence against women until its Oct. 2 premiere date—the only footage available from the show is this month-old trailer. But if you just can't wait to watch Westworld on TV, you're in luck, because HBO is 26 years late to the party. For three glorious weeks in the spring of 1980, America lived, laughed, and learned with the killer androids of Westworld.
The show was called Beyond Westworld, and was a direct spinoff rather than a reboot (though, thankfully, it seems to have ignored the cloning plot in sequel Futureworld). It was developed and produced by Lou Shaw, a TV veteran whose career stretched back to Studio 57 (he was the co-creator of Quincy, M. E.). Westworld, in its half-assed way, had asked questions about the nature of consciousness and the ethics of creating, then mistreating, sentient machines. Beyond Westworld, in contrast, asked the question, “What if the robots in Westworld were killing the patrons not because they'd developed any form of self-awareness, but because a deranged mad scientist was secretly controlling them?”
The correct answer, of course, is “everything interesting about the film becomes irrelevant,” but CBS's answer was, “that same deranged scientist will use robots to try to take over the world,” and they presented that answer to the country for an hour on Wednesday nights at 8:00, starting March 12, 1980. In each episode, the head of security for Westworld's Delos Corporation (Jim McMullin) and his sidekick (Connie Sellecca) must try to identify a robot hiding among humans in places as varied as a nuclear submarine and a rock band. In the promo clip above, you can see the exposition scene from the show's first episode, which restages scenes from the film without Yul Brynner,incidentally making it very clear that the best thing about the film was always Yul Brynner.
In retrospect, CBS may have decided the show was a dud before it even aired, because they put the hour-long drama against the highly-rated Real People at NBC and Eight is Enough at ABC, a decision that Variety said guaranteed it would be “chopped into rating hamburger.” Variety was right, and CBS cancelled the show after only two episodes had aired. “They apparently want instant gratification or nothing,” Shaw told the Los Angeles Times when the show was shut down. The next week, the third episode aired—as in the premiere, the robots had gained access to a nuke—and the remaining two episodes never made it to the screen until Warner Archive released the complete (5-episode) series in 2014.
It's possible, and even likely, that HBO's series will be better than a failed mid-season replacement from 1980. But there's one thing the first Westworld had that premium cable will never be able to duplicate: terrible commercials. So as a bonus, here are the original ads that ran with Beyond Westworld's first episode on Cleveland, Ohio's CBS affiliate. From Michael Jackson celebrating Disneyland's 25th anniversary to Tony Randall selling spaghetti sauce, the ads are more star-studded than the show ever dreamed of being. It's a reminder that the first time anyone tried to make a show about killer cowboy robots, everyone took it a lot less seriously. It wasn't HBO, after all—it was television.
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%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fsport%2Fblog%2F2016%2Fjul%2F30%2Frio-olympics-2016-sporting-highlights-murky-waters&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 Rio Olympics' sporting highlights risk being submerged in murky waters The IOC will stage manage a glitzy affair expertly but the 2016 Games take place with a troubling series of backdrops that are difficult to ignore
This is Ordem e Progresso. Sadly for the hosts of the first South American Olympics, the words on the Brazilian flag have taken on a grimly ironic hue of late. There has been precious little order and not enough progress. Even as organisers have engaged in the familiar last-minute dash to finish venues and convince the world of their readiness, the International Olympic Committee has struggled to deal with the fallout from the Russian doping scandal. The resulting dissonance has jarred more than ever.
Some of the corporate fluff, as the well-oiled PR machine of the top Olympic partners whirrs into gear with the opening ceremony in sight, is easy to dismiss with a cynical wave of the hand. The excited athletes, many of them operating in the shadows for four years before bursting into the light for one shot at glory and bubbling with enthusiasm as they head for the event that represents the pinnacle of their sport a little less so.
%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fkronny%2F28044757723%2F&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 Dancing in the sunset
%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2Fsections%2Falltechconsidered%2F2016%2F07%2F30%2F487920357%2Ffrom-the-waters-edge-to-the-cutting-edge-fish-skeletons-ct-scans-and-engineering%3Futm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3Dresearchnews&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 From 'The Water's Edge To The Cutting Edge': Fish Skeletons, CT Scans And Engineering
Professor Adam Summers is a "fish guy." He uses fish to get engineering ideas. His latest project is to CT scan every type of fish — all 33,000 of them.
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Lessons from Brexit and learning to better communicate robotics research and innovation Robohub Hilary Sutcliffe and MATTER have been working with the University of Sheffield across a number of departments and faculties to create an agenda for future responsible research and innovation; more than merely putting plasters over public concerns, we ...
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Professor Adam Summers is a "fish guy." He uses fish to get engineering ideas. His latest project is to CT scan every type of fish — all 33,000 of them.
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In Philadelphia, Hillary Clinton needed not a makeover but a stripping away of the layers of self-protectiveness and caution. Throughout the week, the momentousness of the history being made competed with the Clinton campaign's quite evident strategic goals. But then, when the first woman presidential candidate appeared on the stage to claim the nomination, the importance of that moment was impossible to dismiss.![]("http://chimpfeedr.com/img/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fnybooks%2F%7E4%2F7Z0YDLrBoDM&width=540&mix=42dfe-culture")
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