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Controversial British designer behind planned $150m New York sculpture

Thomas Heatherwick, whose planned Garden bridge in London is under investigation, has designed audacious ‘Vessel' sculpture for public plaza

A controversial British designer is behind an audacious $150m public art structure nicknamed the Stairway to Nowhere planned for a new multi-billion dollar commercial development on New York City's west side.

Thomas Heatherwick's design of a giant, free-standing collection of multi-level staircases that will give the public fresh views of the city was unveiled in New York on Wednesday and is currently under construction in Italy.

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Going underground: Crossrail's tunnels open to public in Open House weekend

Seven sites on rail project will be visited by 900 people as part of London architecture event which sees more than 750 buildings open for free

The giant tunnels of the Crossrail project in London are already feats of global engineering history and, this weekend, the public will have the rare chance to see the subterranean spectacle before the service becomes operational in 2018.

Seven different sites, including Canary Wharf, Bond Street and Tottenham Court Road will be open to 900 members of the public as part of the annual Open House architecture event.

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Peter Blundell Jones obituary
Historian of architecture who saw the human side of modernism

When the architectural historian Peter Blundell Jones, who has died aged 67 of cancer, was a student, one building that was much in favour was the prize-winning, technology-led Centre Pompidou in Paris (1971). All the services were visible on the outside, and celebrated in form and colour.

This was a prototype of a kind of universal building and a systemic approach to architecture that Peter rejected, because it did not take account of social, historical or physical context.

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Philistines can keep London we'll always have Paris

Are there a few fag butts on the streets of the Marais? Perhaps, but anyone who thinks London is more culturally vital than the City of Light is deluded

It's midnight in Paris at least according to the British newspapers. A plan to police the French capital with an “incivility brigade” has opened a sewer of schadenfreude as the British media portray the city as a “post-apocalyptic hellhole”. The brigade is a public relations disaster. Its very existence draws attention to cigarette butts and public urination instead of publicising the city's strengths, while the patrols are reported to be largely absent.

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Steve Bell on Hinkley Point C cartoon
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America's Lost Workers

Nicholas Eberstadt's new book Men Without Work is an attack on America's too-generous social net, which he sees as the real culprit for low labor participation. In fact, economic data make clear that few men are “fleeing” work in order to get unemployment insurance, disability insurance, food stamps, and the like. Though he does not acknowledge it, Eberstadt's data suggest a different, far more powerful explanation of the employment gap: there are too few jobs for these men.

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Steve Bell's If ... on Watson-D2's deadly gift for Jez Bi-Wan Corbyn
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French grande for UNIVERSO DI NOTTE (Alessandro Jacovoni, Italy,...

French grande for UNIVERSO DI NOTTE (Alessandro Jacovoni, Italy, 1962)

Artist: Constantin Belinsky

Poster source: Heritage Auctions

“Beginning in Las Vegas with a dance of the Bluebells, we are shown a variety, with jugglers, singers, Thai boxing, cock fighting and so on. A Variety taking place in Hong Kong, Manila, New York, Paris, Cremona. The break between an act and the next being a striptease.” IMDb

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Truly seeing red at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Jan Stuart in the exhibit “Red: Ming Dynasty/Mark Rothko” (Image by Freer|Sackler staff.)

Luminous. Luscious. Velvety.

Sensuous adjectives for a dish perhaps, but words used by scholars nonetheless to describe the exquisite glaze of a rare copper-red piece of Chinese ceremonial porcelain made 500 years ago during the Ming Dynasty ( 1368-1644). Crushed raspberries are what the glaze calls to mind for Jan Stuart, the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery's Melvin R. Seiden Curator of Chinese Art. “Pulpy raspberry reds punctuated by little dark seeds,” are what her eyes see. “Certain bits of its color coalesce where you get almost dark speckles.”

Uncanny is how Stuart also describes the visual similarities between this dish and a series of oil and acrylic paintings done by American painter Mark Rothko in 1959, initially planned to decorate a luxury dining room in New York City. In both dish and Rothko paintings, “the unstable, subtly shifting hues touch our imagination, reminding us that color not only results from materials and processes but also transcends time and place,” Stuart writes in the exhibition text.

“The potters, of course, could have never envisioned a Rothko painting and we are all pretty certain Rothko never saw a Chinese copper-red glaze dish,” Stuart adds. (Rothko, a prolific writer, never mentioned anything about ceramics and Chinese ceramics in particular.)

Untitled Seagram Mural sketch Painting, Mark Rothko 1959, Oil and acrylic on canvas. Gift of the Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc. National Gallery of Art (© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)

“The similarities are completely coincidental,” Stuart says. Yet nothing is coincidental about the artworks themselves. Both are the work of masters at the peak of their abilities, each consciously striving for control and perfection some 500 years apart, and achieving effects that echo each other.

Juxtaposition

Newly acquired by the Freer and displayed in the conjoined Sackler building, the dish now shares a small room with a single painting by Mark Rothko in the new exhibit “Red: Ming Dynasty/Mark Rothko.” To not distract from the experience, dish and painting are the only objects in the room. Exhibit text is on the walls of a separate entry/exit chamber.

“You can either read the text before, or after, or not at all,” Stuart says. “I very much wanted to separate it in the sense that I wanted people to know you can experience these two objects without even asking yourself when they were made or what they are. It's really your choice, but I want you to have the experience of red.”

Stuart conceived of “Red” after showing the dish to various museum staff and others as it was being considered for acquisition. “On more than one occasion someone said to me they saw Rothko in the glaze,” Stuart recalls. “So it made me start thinking: OK. Is this a way to excite people,” by displaying the dish with a Rothko painting.

She began looking around at Rothko paintings at the National Gallery. “Then suddenly I realized, Perfect. I saw the same palate, exactly the Rothko that some knowledgeable art connoisseurs were seeing.”

She contacted Harry Cooper, head curator at the National Gallery of Art, who reviewed her exhibit proposal juxtaposing the two pieces in a single room. “I was thinking he might say to me ‘Oh no. This is crazy.' But he was just delightful and supportive” Cooper and National Gallery director Earl Powell agreed to lend the Sackler a Rothko painting to be exhibited with the dish.

Dish with copper-red glaze, Ming dynasty, Xuande reign (1426-1435), China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen. (Purchase: Charles Lang Freer Endowment and Friends of the Freer and Sackler Galleries)

Depth and variation

In 1959, Rothko (19031970) was layering red pigments in daring ways, achieving depth and variation that make his flat canvas seem palpable. Rothko believed that color was a portal to emotion and that art could change a viewer. “Rothko was painting very consciously, thinking about the emotional impact of his work, the visual impact of his work…consciously thinking, laboring over every stroke with what effect he's going to get,” Stuart says. “He was concerned with the texture, he wanted shape, he painted the edge of his canvas and never wanted them framed.”

What Rothko was doing consciously is echoed exactly in what the master Ming potters were doing but with a totally different mindset. “What they were creating they did not regard as art,” Stuart explains. “They were carrying out an imperial command to produce a perfect dish to be used in a ritual ceremony. They were concentrating on it, I think, as technology, trying to achieve the single hardest glaze color to make, which is red, and they created a glaze with of depth and texture.”

The potters learned that giving the dish a narrow white rim made the red color pop even more. They were also concerned about shape. “It is just this uncanny parallel of Rothko, and yet not a single thing in their thought process was consciously the same.”

“Red: Ming Dynasty/Mark Rothko” at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. (Photo by Freer/Sackler staff)

Subtle variegation is what gives the glaze of the Ming Dynasty dish its visual depth and reveals the technical mastery of the potters. Using a technique in which nanoparticles of copper oxide colored the glaze, the potters achieved a tone in the bluish end of the vermillion spectrum. “If you look at the glaze under high-powered magnification you see it is a network of bubbles, mostly unbroken. These bubbles are of two types and shades of reds, and form into networks; and the way they are mixing is non-homogeneous, so they're refracting and reflecting the light in a complex way that gives that sense of depth and texture,” Stuart says.

“And if you look really closely at the glaze you will see some tiny, tiny pinprick holes—sometimes described as an orange-peel effect. Those are some of the bubbles that broke, due to the great heat in the kiln. But most are still unbroken and that is what reflects and refracts light in such a complicated pattern. Certain bits of the color coalesce where you get almost dark speckles in it…that's why I always think of crushed raspberries,” Stuart says.

“Sometimes for me I stand in the exhibit and feel like I am almost weeping with the beauty of red,” Stuart reveals. “It's all about all of the different tonalities of red, it's what really brilliantly thought about layering of color tones can do to open your emotions, making you feel happy, sad, everything.”

(Red: Ming Dynasty/Mark Rothko is on view in the Sackler Gallery through Feb. 20, 2017.)

The post Truly seeing red at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery appeared first on Smithsonian Insider.

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How to Use Tech to Cut Down on Food Waste
We live in a world plagued by poverty and widespread hunger, yet about 30% of all food produced ends up wasted. A lot of that waste tends to come from industrialized nations, where food isn't exactly a scarce resource. 5. Buy food that's headed for the landfill.Too Good To Go is an app that ...

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Echoes of black holes eating stars discovered
A black hole destroying a star, an event astronomers call 'stellar tidal disruption,' releases an enormous amount of energy, brightening the surroundings in an event called a flare. Two new studies characterize tidal disruption flares by studying how surrounding dust absorbs and re-emits their light, like echoes. This approach allowed scientists to measure the energy of flares from stellar tidal disruption events more precisely than ever before.
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Gaia's billion star maps hints at treasures to come
The first catalog of more than a billion stars from ESA's Gaia satellite was just published -- the largest all-sky survey of celestial objects to date.
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Black hole hidden within its own exhaust
New data from ALMA reveal that the black hole at the center of a galaxy named NGC 1068 is actually the source of its own dusty torus of dust and gas, forged from material flung out of the black hole's accretion disk.
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Starving black hole returns brilliant galaxy to the shadows
Many galaxies are found to have an extremely bright core powered by a supermassive black hole. These cores make "active galaxies" some of the brightest objects in the Universe. They are thought to shine so brightly because hot material is glowing fiercely as it falls into the black hole, a process known as accretion. This brilliant light can vary hugely between different active galaxies, so astronomers classify them into several types based on the properties of the light they emit.
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Polar Bears Across the Arctic Face Shorter Sea Ice Season

NASA Goddard Photo and Video posted a photo:

Polar bears already face shorter ice seasons - limiting prime hunting and breeding opportunities.

Nineteen separate polar bear subpopulations live throughout the Arctic, spending their winters and springs roaming on sea ice and hunting. The bears have evolved mainly to eat seals, which provide necessary fats and nutrients in the harsh Arctic environment. Polar bears can't outswim their prey, so instead they perch on the ice as a platform and ambush seals at breathing holes or break through the ice to access their dens.
The total number of ice-covered days declined at the rate of seven to 19 days per decade between 1979 and 2014. The decline was even greater in the Barents Sea and the Arctic basin. Sea ice concentration during the summer months — an important measure because summertime is when some subpopulations are forced to fast on land — also declined in all regions, by 1 percent to 9 percent per decade.

Read more: go.nasa.gov/2cIZSSc

Photo credit: Mario Hoppmann

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China Successfully Launches SpaceLab Tiangong-2 --International Space Station and Science Discoveries to Follow

China successfully launched space lab the Tiangong-2 Thursday night from the Jiuquan satellite launch center in northwest China. Tiangong-2 will link with Shenzhou-11 manned spaceship, which will be launched later in October. Also piggybacking on the Tiangong-2 launch is a micro satellite that will orbit close to the space lab --its purpose has not been reported. The mission is part of China's ambitious space program to build a permanent manned space station around year 2022.

With the sound of rolling thunder on the vast Gobi dessert, Tiangong-2 space lab blasted off into space propelled by its Long March 2F carrier rocket, shortly after 10pm on Thursday. In just 585 seconds, Tiangong-2 was placed in an orbit about 393 kilometers above the Earth.

The Shenzhou-11 spaceship will ferry two astronauts to dock with the lab and stay in space for 30 days to conduct a range of scientific experiments covering areas such as fundamental physics, biology, fluid mechanics in micro gravity and aerospace medicine. More than 40 space science and application experiments will be conducted aboard Tiangong-2.

Once inside Tiangong-2, the two astronauts will carry out key experiments related to aerospace medicine, space physics and biology as well as on-orbit equipment repairs in areas such as quantum key transmission, space atomic clock and solar storm research.

"The number of experiments carried by Tiangong-2 is the highest so far of all manned space missions," said Wu Ping, deputy director of the manned space engineering office. Its payload includes POLAR, a collaboration between Swiss, Polish and Chinese institutions to study gamma ray bursts. The space cold atomic clock, which scientists say only loses one second about every 30 million years, is expected to make future mobile navigation more accurate.

Many experiments are at the very forefront of space science exploration, and one of them is the world's first in-space cold atomic clock, used to improve time measurements to the equivalent of one second every 30 million years, and will also result in improvements in navigation accuracy.

Lv Congmoin, Deputy director at the technology and engineering center for space utilization, Chinese academy of sciences, says "The synchronization of the navigation system on our mobile phone runs via the internet. But the function of time correction systems all depends on numerous atomic clocks on the ground. If we can maintain the smooth running of the cold atomic clock in space, time synchronization between the earth and space can finally be achieved, thus improving navigation accuracy. "

The new space lab, designed with two modules, offers a larger payload capacity, better living quarters, and new communication technologies on board.

As a major breakthrough in the "three step strategy" proposed by Chinese scientists toward the goal of building a permanent manned space station, the Tiangong2 is expected to further boost the development of China's space exploration.

"Tiangong 2 is the first space vehicle in the second phase of the second step of the strategy," says Chief designer of the Tiangong-2 space lab Zhu Zongpeng. "It's going to dock with Shenzhou-11 this year, and with a cargo vessel next year. Once it has completed missions of long term space stays, facility maintenance, refueling, and space experiments, it will be the end of the phase. If we cannot carry out the mission well, it's going to affect the building of the space station directly. So Tiangong-2 has great significance in the process. "

The manned space engineering office said in March that the orbit of Tiangong-1 will descend gradually over several months until the orbiter eventually burns up in the atmosphere.

The Daily Galaxy via cri.cn and xinhuanet.com

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"Up to 50% of Earth's Water is Older than Our Solar System" (Today's Most Popular)

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SETI Astronomers Discuss Discovery of Nearby Planet Proxima b and Mystery Alien Signal from the Hercules Constellation (VIDEO)

The epic discovery of Proxima b announced last week may represent humanity's best chance to search for life among the stars. But is Proxima b habitable? Is it inhabited? These questions are impossible to answer at this time because we know so little about the planet, but SETI astronomers astrophysicists discuss possible answers with a distinctly French accent!

Last week also brought us a mysterious alien signal from a star system 94 light years from Earth. Picked up by Russian scientists last year, the signal did not come from an advanced extraterrestrial civilization, but from an old Soviet military satellite, said Russian news agency TASS, much to the disappointment of astronomers and alien enthusiasts across the world. But was it?

The originally reported source of the signal HD 164595 is a solar system which is a few billion years older than our own, but is centered on a star of a similar brightness and size to our Sun. The signal was picked up by the RATAN-600 radio telescope in Zelenchukskaya, Russia shown below.

However, significant number of people around our globe are not convinced by TASS' version, believing it is one of the many cover ups aimed at deceiving us regarding the existence of advanced alien life from beyond our Solar System. They question Russia's motives for the denial of the signals validity --you'll have to draw your own conclusions.

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Google's DeepMind AI Creates a Machine That Sounds Exactly Like a Human

Google has announced a new voice synthesis program in WaveNet, powered by deep neural AI. Understanding voice samples has been powering programs like Google Voice Search for quite some time now. However, synthesizing something from those samples is proving to be a challenge. Now, Instead of simply analyzing the audio it's fed, it learns from it.

By working with at least 16,000 samples per second, WaveNet can generate its own raw audio samples with minimal human intervention; it uses statistics to actually predict which audio piece it needs, what it has to 'say' next.

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China to Launch Live-In SpaceLab Today --"Will be Home to Two Astronauts for 30 Days"

China will launch its Tiangong-2 space lab from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on a Long March-2F T2 rocket in northwestern China's Gobi desert at 10:04 p.m. Thursday as part of an increasingly ambitious space program that aims for a manned space station by around 2022.

In 2011, U.S. Congress ruled that China is not allowed on the International Space Station because of "national security" concerns. Undeterred, the People's Republic decided to build its own.

"All systems are ready for lift-off," said Wu Ping, deputy director of the manned space engineering office, on Wednesday afternoon. "The launch of Tiangong-2 will lay a solid foundation for the building and operation of a permanent space station in the future," she said.

She said China's manned space program has now entered a "new phase of application and development."

Once in space, the 8.6-tonne Tiangong-2 will maneuver itself into an orbit about 380 kilometers above Earth for initial on-orbit tests.

It will transfer to a slightly higher orbit about 393 kilometers above Earth, a height at which the future Chinese space station will operate, before the Shenzhou-11 manned spaceship ferries two male astronauts into space to dock with the lab in mid-to-late October.

The two astronauts will work in Tiangong-2 for 30 days before reentering Earth's atmosphere.

In April 2017, China's first cargo ship, Tianzhou-1, will also be sent into orbit to dock with Tiangong-2 and provide it with fuel and other supplies.

Wu said experts will verify and evaluate key technologies involved in on-orbit propellant resupply and equipment repairs as well as that related to long-term stays in space by astronauts.

They will also use the lab, which is designed to operate for at least two years, to conduct space science experiments on a relatively large scale compared to China's previous efforts.

Measuring 10.4 meters in length and 3.35 meters in maximum diameter, Tiangong-2 is much like its predecessor Tiangong-1, which was launched in 2011, but its living quarters and life support facilities have been improved to allow for longer stays by astronauts.

Originally built as a backup for Tiangong-1, it can enable two astronauts to live in space for up to 30 days and is capable of receiving manned and cargo spaceships.

More than 40 space science and application experiments will be conducted aboard Tiangong-2.

"The number of experiments carried by Tiangong-2 is the highest so far of all manned space missions," Wu said. Its payload includes POLAR, a collaboration between Swiss, Polish and Chinese institutions to study gamma ray bursts. The space cold atomic clock, which scientists say only loses one second about every 30 million years, is expected to make future mobile navigation more accurate.

Also piggybacking on the Tiangong-2 launch will be a micro satellite that will orbit close to the space lab.

Wu said China will share the fruits of its development in its manned space program with all countries, especially developing countries.

Earlier reports said Tiangong-2 will also carry three experiments designed by the winners of a Hong Kong middle school design contest.

Its predecessor, Tiangong-1, which docked with Shenzhou-8, Shenzhou-9 and Shenzhou-10 spacecraft and undertook a series of experiments, was mainly tasked with verifying technology involved in space docking and serving as a platform for a limited number of scientific experiments, Wu said. Tiangong-1 ended its data service earlier this year.

According to Wu, Tiangong-1 is running at an orbit about 370 kilometers above Earth and descending 100 meters every day. It is expected to burn up in Earth's atmosphere in the latter half of 2017.

The Daily Galaxy via http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-09/14/c_135688000.htm

Image credits: China National Space Administration

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"Our Early Solar System Harbored SuperEarths" (Weekend Feature)

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Space for Inspiration 2016

europeanspaceagency posted a photo:

"Space for Inspiration International Space Station and beyond” event at the Science Museum, London, 14-15 September 2016. ESA, industry and experts from many disciplines look at how human spaceflight has changed our daily lives, and what the future holds.
Credits: ESAM. Alexander

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Love - Forever Chang

Love - Forever Changes (1967) One of my top 10 favorite albums of all time.
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Google takes the issue of bovine privacy very seriously

Google has a responsibility to protect the privacy of the people its ‘Street View' car captures. But does that responsibility extend to animals? Maybe not, but that doesn't stop its automatic facial recognition technology from playing it safe — even when playing it safe is obstructing the giant head of grazing cattle. A Google Street View car seems to have captured at least two cows grazing alongside a road in the UK. The photo, taken at Coe Fen, a rural area of Cambridge, appears to have blurred the face of one of the noshing cattle while leaving the other unobstructed. It appears the…

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TorrentHound is the latest torrent site to bite the dust

Around for nearly a decade, TorrentHound announced today that it's done. Just a few hours ago, the site's founder sent TorrentFreak an email with a simple message: “Finito.” TorrentHound leaves behind millions of monthly visitors, although it never quite managed to reach the level of the giants — The Pirate Bay, Torrentz and KickAss Torrents. All three of the major players in the torrent space have been taken down in recent months, although The Pirate Bay is as resilient as ever and just keeps coming back. KickAss Torrents and Torrentz, however, haven't been as lucky. The former went offline in July…

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Google requires 5,000 times more code than the original space shuttle

Google owns dozens of Web properties which collectively run on billions of lines of code — two billion, to be exact. The original space shuttle, a relic from 1982, only required 400,000 lines of code to launch a crew and several tons of fuel into orbit. To put that into perspective, your search for dank memes requires 5,000 times more code than it took to launch people into space. Speaking of perspective, Business Insider put together a handy list to show just how much code both modern applications and software relics use. For example, Windows 3.1 used a mere 4.5 million…

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