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Videographer: Commissioned artist and friend of Eyebeam, Jason Jones of Not An Alternative

Videographer: Commissioned artist and friend of Eyebeam, Jason Jones of Not An Alternative

Videographer: Commissioned artist and friend of Eyebeam, Jason Jones of Not An Alternative

Videographer: Commissioned artist and friend of Eyebeam, Jason Jones of Not An Alternative

Videographer: Commissioned artist and friend of Eyebeam, Jason Jones of Not An Alternative

Videographer: Commissioned artist and friend of Eyebeam, Jason Jones of Not An Alternative

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May 16, 2008
Colour Organs - A tiny history.
Left to right: Plan for the Ocular Harpsichord - Louis Betrand Castel, Bainbridge Bishop’s Colour Organ, Alexander Wallace Rimington’s Colour Organ With a 6-foot square frame above a standard harpsichord and 60 small windows of different coloured glass illuminated in correspondence to sound, Louis Betrand Castel’s Ocular Harpsichord must have caused quite a stir in [...]
Originally posted by paul from dataisnature.com, ReBlogged by jwinter on May 16, 2008 at 07:58 AM
MIT solves gravity-defying bird beak mystery
As Darwin showed nearly 150 years ago, bird beaks are exquisitely adapted to the birds' feeding strategy. A team of MIT researchers has now explained exactly how some birds use their long, thin beaks to defy gravity and transport food into their mouths.
Originally from MIT Research News, ReBlogged by jwinter on May 16, 2008 at 07:57 AM
Wangari Maathai: 'Rich nations have a responsibility'
In an interview, the Nobel Peace Prize winner from Kenya talks about the obligations of first- and third-worlders in climate change.

Bizarre Star Gets Stranger
Scientists have spotted a wacky pulsar that doesn't behave like its fellows.
Originally from SPACE.com, ReBlogged by jwinter on May 16, 2008 at 07:49 AM
Conservatives Hating It: Gay Marriage Legal In California

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San Fran’s Mayor ushered in the Gay-ity. He looks gay to me. Do straight guys clap like that? Regardless, conservatives are eating their shorts because the gays are going to transform this country into a gay hell where everyone must be gay or go to the gas chambers. Yeah, that’s what the libs want to protect, gays and terrorists!!!

Gay Marriage

Originally posted by Logan Seixx from Hating It Magazine, ReBlogged by jwinter on May 16, 2008 at 07:44 AM
May 15, 2008
Mars probe set for risky descent
Scientists prepare for "seven minutes of terror" as the Phoenix spacecraft attempts to land on the surface.
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“Prism” by Melanie Schiff.

Originally posted by mail from VVORK, ReBlogged by jwinter on May 15, 2008 at 07:22 AM
Youngest Exploding Star Discovered
Astronomers have discovered remains of the most recent stellar explosion in our galaxy.
Originally from SPACE.com, ReBlogged by jwinter on May 15, 2008 at 07:20 AM
Office within the Office Creates Privacy (Sort of)
house_table.jpg Back in the day when one would specify freestanding pedestal desks for secretaries, they would have an optional "modesty panel" so that visitors and co-workers couldn't look at their knees or worse. I wonder how one acts when the whole upper body is encased in this wonderful shed/office/house on legs designed by Soojin Hyun. You certainly won't go to work in your bathrobe. Or perhaps it is the reverse of that Anchorman joke, where you wear nice pants but don't need a top. ...

Originally from TreeHugger, ReBlogged by jwinter on May 15, 2008 at 07:17 AM
May 14, 2008
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“Impromptu” by Charly Steiger.

Originally posted by mail from VVORK, ReBlogged by jwinter on May 14, 2008 at 08:20 AM
UK releases classified UFO files
The UK's Ministry of Defence has started releasing decades' worth of UFO-related files – predictably, some are downright bizarre
Vatican star watcher says aliens may be out there

ET spiritus sancti

The Catholic Church’s top astronomer has said there is no contradiction between the one true faith and believing in aliens.…

Originally from The Register, ReBlogged by jwinter on May 14, 2008 at 08:13 AM
May 13, 2008
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»Study for the Dispersion of Information«, 2005 by Jan Jakub Kotík.

Originally posted by mail from VVORK, ReBlogged by jwinter on May 13, 2008 at 09:43 AM
What ever happened to the Art of Giving?
Dean Robert Storr, explores the consequences of when patrons wrestle power from museum curators and directors. What does such a move mean for the public? In the end Storr thinks Eli Broad should have just gone traditional. However, the public not LACMA is the real looser. Frieze Magazine
'Mobile' phone enjoys centenery
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One hundred years later, Nathan Stubblefield is finally being recognised as the inventor of the mobile phone.

Photographs of the world's first "wireless telephone" have revealed that it was not quite as mobile as its modern counterparts.

According to The Telegraph , the telephone was made up of a system of wire suspended between metal rods with the transmitter placed on a train carriage or boat.

When the vehicle neared, a signal was sent through the air to the telephone using magnetic fields. It could be heard near the other end of the wire through another phone.

[via CrunchGear]

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Originally posted by emily from textually.org, ReBlogged by jwinter on May 13, 2008 at 09:38 AM
May 12, 2008
First Map of an Extrasolar Planet
Astronomers have produced the first map of a planet outside the solar system. The resolution is admittedly low -- all we know is that there's a "hot spot" offset from the planetary noon by some thirty degrees -- but what...
Originally posted by Jonathan Crowe from The Map Room, ReBlogged by jwinter on May 12, 2008 at 06:09 PM
Costs of Text Messaging vs. Space Transmissions
450px-Hubble_01.jpg This is one of the stranger assumptions made about text messaging pricing. Via the NY Times The Lede Blog.

"Nigel Bannister, a space scientist at the University of Leicester in Britain, has concluded that sending a text message costs at least four times as much as transmitting scientific data from the Hubble telescope."

Dr Nigel Bannister’s calculations were used for the Channel 4 Dispatches program “The Mobile Phone Rip-Off”.

He worked out the cost of obtaining a megabyte of data from Hubble – and compared that with the 5p cost of sending a text.

He said: “The bottom line is texting is at least 4 times more expensive than transmitting data from Hubble, and is likely to be substantially more than that.

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Originally posted by emily from textually.org, ReBlogged by jwinter on May 12, 2008 at 06:05 PM
Volunteers asked to help find dead spacecraft on Mars
New online images could hold clues to the fate of NASA's Mars Polar Lander, which was lost on the Red Planet in 1999
When burning gas is good for the planet
Rural families are slashing their energy costs, improving indoor air quality and helping preserve local forests by using biogas plants
Sumatran orangutans study for nature's pass/perish entrance exam
The best students are the wildest. Lesson 1: Avoid humans at all costs.

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