%feed https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/19/royal-society-science-book-prize-andrea-wulf-the-invention-of-nature Alexander von Humboldt biography wins Royal Society science book prize
Andrea Wulf wins £25,000 award for The Invention of Nature, a biography of the 19th-century explorer who has more things named after him than any other human
A biography of the 19th-century explorer Alexander von Humboldt, who has “faded from collective memory” despite being dubbed “the Shakespeare of the sciences” by his peers, has won the £25,000 prize for the best science book of the year.
%feed http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/09/19/494593600/when-blind-people-do-algebra-the-brain-s-visual-areas-light-up?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=researchnews When Blind People Do Algebra, The Brain's Visual Areas Light Up
A study of 17 people who have been blind since birth found that areas of the brain usually devoted to visual information become active when a blind person is solving math problems.
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%feed http://twitter.com/keithwj/status/777958369957126144 What to Expect at CITES: A Sneak Peak at Upcoming Endangered Species Meeting https://t.co/M3wDO4gz6H via @NatGeo https://t.co/M3wDO4gz6H
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%feed http://twitter.com/FeluciSusanna/status/777947217525112832 What to Expect at CITES: A Sneak Peak at Upcoming Endangered Species Meeting https://t.co/TuQuwOPHMe via @NatGeo https://t.co/TuQuwOPHMe
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%feed https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/sep/19/a-sculptors-space-helaine-blumenfeld-home-oxford A sculptor's space: inside the home of Helaine Blumenfeld
Dotted with abstract marble forms, Helaine Blumenfeld's grand Cambridge home is full of surprises
Helaine Blumenfeld's house is well disguised. It lies behind a high stone wall in the centre of Grantchester, the little village outside Cambridge that has long been a favourite with students on a pre-pub stroll. Visitors enter through a little gate into a sprawling, slightly overgrown garden that surrounds the whole house. Blumenfeld's sculptures stand in leafy corners. On a hot August day it feels as if an ancient temple is being disturbed.
Blumenfeld is one of the most respected sculptors of her generation, regarded by some as the heir to Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth. Her marbles and bronzes are more abstracted than those of her artistic forebears, and they stand in prominent locations around the UK. A new exhibition will see a large piece unveiled in Canary Wharf, London, later this month.
%feed https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/sep/19/edward-morris Edward Morris obituary
There was always something boyish about my friend and colleague, the art historian and curator Edward Morris, who has died aged 75 an element of the Peter Pan, never old and never young. He was rather gawky, and there was a physical discomfort about him, as though he did not quite fit himself.
He was long on dense emails and short on conversation, his profound shyness and self-effacing modesty masking a deep well of determination and commitment and a fount of kindness. These elements were undoubtedly crucial to what would become his greatest contribution to his field, as founder editor of the Public Sculpture of Britain series, a collaboration between the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association and Liverpool University Press.
%feed https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/sep/19/gustavo-aceves-migration-crisis-artwork-rome 'We all come from the same place': Gustavo Aceves unveils migration crisis artwork in Rome
Huge equine sculptures, installed among ancient Roman monuments, reference the struggle of millions of migrants. ‘I wanted this work to be an awakening,' says the Mexican artist
Few pieces of art have borne witness to the movement, progress and tragedies of history quite like the four bronze horses of St Mark.
%feed https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2016/sep/19/art-neurology-tracey-emin-andy-warhol Reality is officially more powerful than art but only just
Research finds people react more calmly to art images than real-life ones. But art isn't about cool contemplation it's a red-blooded reframing of emotion
The other day I watched stuff turn into art when I saw Tracey Emin assemble My Bed, one of the most controversial readymades ever created. At the start of her installation there was a mattress on a plinth and two tables of carefully bagged objects. By the time she'd finished, My Bed was something special it was art. But can you turn ordinary objects into art simply by saying so?
%feed https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/sep/19/bedlam-the-asylum-and-beyond-review-wellcome-collection Bedlam: The Asylum and Beyond review missed opportunity to truly explore mental health
Wellcome Collection, London This jumbled exhibition tracking changing attitudes to mental illness could have been a powerful study of Bedlam and psychiatry. Instead it fails to make sense of the real place and the myth
Sir Alexander Morison stands tall and sombre with his top hat in his left hand and a white handkerchief in his right. His eyes are grey and slightly sunken, his lips thin, his face long and gaunt. He seems marked by the sadness of his profession. For Morison was an “alienist”, a 19th-century doctor of mental illness, at London's infamous asylum Bethlem Hospital, popularly known as Bedlam, whose history and cultural significance are explored by the Wellcome Collection's new exhibition Bedlam: The Asylum and Beyond.
%feed https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/sep/19/taking-over-the-asylum-art-made-at-bedlam-and-beyond-in-pictures Taking over the asylum: art made at Bedlam and beyond in pictures
A new exhibition collects together work made by inmates of mental hospitals which is often startlingly detailed and fiercely lucid
%feed http://www.designboom.com/art/bmw-south-african-esther-mahlungu-7-series-09-18-2016/ BMW commission south african artist to decorate 7 series interior architecture
its interior is adorned with the bright colors and unique ornamental shapes, typical of ndebele art, thus turning it into a BMW art car.
%feed https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160919132518.htm Unusual short burst of X-rays coming from slowest-spinning neutron star A new record-holder for the slowest spinning neutron star has been found thanks to clues first detected by NASA's Swift space observatory. Spinning neutron stars are the class of stars with the most powerful magnetic fields in the universe. Swift's X-Ray Telescope captured a short burst of unusual X-rays on June 22, 2016 coming from an object roughly 9,000 light-years from Earth. astronomy
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%feed http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheDailyGalaxyNewsFromPlanetEarthBeyond/~3/ngBQ_geGyo4/chinas-newly-launched-spacelab-empowers-human-braincomputer-interaction-can-transmit-the-astronautst.html China's Newly Launched SpaceLab Empowers Human Brain/Computer Interaction --"Can Transmit Astronauts' Thoughts into Operations"
China launched its second space lab, Tiangong-2, on Thursday, paving the way for a permanent space station that the country plans to build around 2022. In a space science first, a human brain-computer interaction test system, developed by Tianjin University, has been installed in the lab and it is set to conduct a series of experiments in space, People's Daily reported. According to Ming Dong, the leader of the research team in charge of the brain-computer test system, the brain-computer interaction will eventually be the highest form of human-machine communication.
“The brain-computer interaction test system in Tiangong-2 boasts 64 national patents. The research team has long been devoted to the research of brain-computer interactions, previously developing two idiodynamic artificial neuron robotic systems.
The leader of the team suggested that it could also help Tiangong-2 astronauts to more readily accomplish their assigned tasks, transmiting the astronauts' thoughts into operations, while at the same time observing their neurological functions.
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 last 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.
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.
The Daily Galaxy via People's Daily, cri.cn and xinhuanet.com
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%feed http://www.flickr.com/photos/europeanspaceagency/29498564150/ Copernicus Sentinel-1B handed over for operations
Following liftoff on 25 April 2016, the Copernicus Sentinel-1B satellite has been commissioned and handed over for mission operations. It joins its identical twin, Sentinel-1A, which has been systematically scanning Earth with its radar since October 2014. Orbiting 180° apart, the two satellites optimise coverage and data delivery for the Copernicus services that are making a step change in the way our environment is managed. More than 45 000 users have registered to access Sentinel data, under the free and open policy framework of Europe's Copernicus environmental monitoring programme.
Both satellites carry a radar that images Earth's surface through cloud and rain and regardless of whether it is day or night. These images are used for many applications, such as monitoring ice in the polar seas, tracking land subsidence, and for responding to disasters such as floods.
On 14 September, project manager Ramón Torres (left) who led the development team, handed over the satellite to the mission manager, Pierre Potin (right) in the presence of Volker Liebig, Senior Advisor to ESA's Director General.
Credit: ESA
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%feed https://500px.com/photo/173457113/i-never-thought-i-would-degraded-as-quickly-by-shoot-at-mine-sam-strong I never thought I would degraded as quickly by Shoot At Mine - Sam Strong
My Baffin Island Photo Adventure 2016 has ended a couple of days ago. We had amazing time and good photographic conditions. For all interested in seeing wild Canadian Arctic and not afraid of 2 weeks long hike through immense valleys and highway-wide glaciers, there are already plans for Baffin Island Photo Adventure 2017. It will happen around the same time, next year. The exact trek route? Well, we will see as it changes a bit from year to year. I am notifying ahead of time because if you wish for a one in the lifetime experience…before the ice melts, it might be a good time to jump on a treadmill. What I can guarantee is no crowds of photographers and photos that very, very few have in their portfolios. In case of any questions, you know where to find me online. The view on this photo is one of a few that I was looking for to capture during the 2016 expedition. Previously, when I was shooting in this location the weather didn't cooperate and I wasn't able to take this shot, but this time all elements were aligned. The point from which this photo was taken marks the highest camp during the whole trek. It features some of the highest mountain peaks on Baffin Island with magnificent Mount Asgard among them. The photo was taken at sunrise when the first sun rays hit the mountains. The grandeur of the mountain massive combined with this extraordinary, almost summer-like light kept us in awe long after the sunrise. It is a single shot photo.
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