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Captain Picard on Why Twitter Isn’t For Him.
I love Patrick Stewart. This is just an excuse to hear his voice.
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“Der Mensch als Industriepalast (Man as Industrial Palace)” by Fritz Kahn, 1926; via { feuilleton }.
In February 2009, the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (OCCCA) and Mission Hospital will debut The Art of Imaging, a unique exhibit that explores medical imaging through contemporary art. Combining both worlds of science and art, the images used in the artwork are captured by the same imaging equipment that save lives every day.
Images from Mission Hospital’s advanced technology – including 3-and 4-D ultrasound, mammography, interventional and digital radiology, computerized tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and conventional X-rays – serve as the basis of creation as OCCCA artists mold the images to their own artistic expression.
Image and text via Juxtapoz.
Madonna con Clon, by artist and geneticist Hunter O’Reilly. This piece is her abstraction on biotechnology:
“A human clone may have the same DNA genome as another, but would be a unique individual with a unique personality and soul. The painting, Madonna con Clon, depicts the loving relationship between a mother and a human cloned child and the uniqueness of each.
“Whether or not you agree that humans should be cloned, the first human clone will likely be created in the next few years. The term clone has negative connotations. The very word makes us think of a xerox copy. We know how identical twins are very different people with unique personalities. Identical twins have more in common than human clones will. Identical twins have the same mitochondrial DNA and are raised in the same household in the same time in history. A later born twin, a human clone, would be raised in a different environment at a different time in history. A human clone would also have different mitochrondrial DNA, unless the egg is donated by the woman being cloned. For the infertile person being cloned, the human clone would be a biological sibling, but socially, would be their child.”
Via Neatorama.
![Shot fired from an AK-47 using Schlieren photography. This method “involves shining collimated light past a knife edge onto a target, and variations in the refractive index of moving air create ‘shadows’ of a sort in the image captured on film…[I]t’s most often used to solve aeronautical air-flow problems, or weapons in action.” Via Gizmodo, which has a gross, yet fascinating, picture of a cough using the same technology.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/wQZOj2K1Gfm9oex22NHmpmkQo1_500.jpg)
Shot fired from an AK-47 using Schlieren photography. This method “involves shining collimated light past a knife edge onto a target, and variations in the refractive index of moving air create ‘shadows’ of a sort in the image captured on film…[I]t’s most often used to solve aeronautical air-flow problems, or weapons in action.” Via Gizmodo, which has a gross, yet fascinating, picture of a cough using the same technology.
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
Dot Matrix Revolution, a pixel animation timeline of computing and the internet, discovered via Boing Boing.
“Nervous System creates experimental jewelry, combining nontraditional materials like silicone rubber and stainless steel with rapid prototyping methods. We find inspiration in complex patterns generated by computation and nature.”
Love it.
The Corpus Clock, invented and designed by Dr. John Taylor and unveiled by Dr. Stephen Hawking at Corpus Christi College at Cambridge. The creature at the top was “inspired by medieval armour and gradually became more ominous: part-lizard, part-stag beetle, a Chronophage – time eater.”
“‘It is terrifying, it is meant to be,’ said John Taylor. ‘Basically I view time as not on your side. He’ll eat up every minute of your life, and as soon as one has gone he’s salivating for the next. It’s not a bad thing to remind students of. I never felt like this until I woke up on my 70th birthday, and was stricken at the thought of how much I still wanted to do, and how little time remained.’”
Via Guardian.
“Now, in a project that could take five years and will cost millions of dollars, the fragments will be photographed first by a 39-megapixel colour digital camera, then by another digital camera in infra-red light and finally some will be photographed using a sophisticated multi-spectral imaging camera, which can distinguish the ink from the parchment and papyrus on which the scrolls were written.”
