Music: Mikis Theodorákis
Director: Michael Cacoyannis
Outstanding actor: Anthony Quinn
Film: Zorba the Greek
Director: Michael Cacoyannis
Outstanding actor: Anthony Quinn
Film: Zorba the Greek
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
A Bridge between Reality and Virtuality
- Actor John Noble ( Fringe...)
- 3D model generated by MotionScan
"One of the most impressive demonstrations at E3 2010 wasn't a game, and wasn't the 3DS (though that was pretty neat.) It was actually a little tech demo tucked away in the back of one of the halls that could completely change the way we see characters in games..." gamepro.com
John Davison is the EVP, content of GamePro Media
Diego Stocco - Bassoforte
"Diego creates dynamic and innovative music experiences.
His music extensively uses unique sounds created specifically for each project through custom built instruments and techniques, allowing him to produce eclectic compositions with sounds never heard before.
For Diego any minimal and hidden noise contains the potential of an expressive sound..."
Monday, June 28, 2010
Human-Sized Hamster Ball Lets You Play in Virtual Worlds | Popular Science
Shoot Out A soldier negotiates a military training video in an earlier Virtusphere Courtesy Virtusphere.
Article: popsci.com
Sunday, June 27, 2010
WARNING: 3D Video Hazardous to Your Health
"Nintendo unveils 3DS and quickly follows-up with a statement about dangers to children under 7 playing with the company’s new portable gamer.
Samsung releases a line of 3D HDTVs then issues a warning about its potential health risk to certain viewers.
What they haven’t told you is that these warnings come after years of industry spin and cover ups.
The truth is that prolonged viewing of 3D video may be even more harmful than the consumer electronics industry wants you to know..."
audioholics.com
Samsung releases a line of 3D HDTVs then issues a warning about its potential health risk to certain viewers.
What they haven’t told you is that these warnings come after years of industry spin and cover ups.
The truth is that prolonged viewing of 3D video may be even more harmful than the consumer electronics industry wants you to know..."
Article by Wayde Robson
audioholics.com
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Music of the sun recorded by scientists
"The sun has been the inspiration for hundreds of songs, but now scientists have discovered that the star at the centre of our solar system produces its own music."
Video:telegraph.co.uk
Article by Richard Gray, telegraph.co.uk
Astro Yacht
Space yacht powered by solar waves finally sets sail/ Dailymail
The device has a square, ultra-thin and flexible sail measuring 14m by 14m that is driven through space as it is pelted by solar particles
The sail has an area of about 200 square metres
(1) For the deployment, the disc-shaped Ikaros spacecraft was first spun up
(2) The four weighted corners of the sail were then released and flew outwards
(3) Finally, the packed sail membrane was liberated and pulled flat by the rotating tips
Article b news.bbc.co.uk
Monday, June 21, 2010
Don't Free-Lance by Alex Noriega
ART IS SUICIDAL BUT SOMEONE HAS TO DO IT
Thanks Alex :)
Source : stuffnoonetoldme.blogspot.com
"Alex is an illustrator from Barcelona with poor spelling and grammar skills."
For more dessperation :(
Please visit: clientsfromhell.net
Where will you be in 3563?
gunn.co.nz 
Okay, now we are using Astronomical Units. An Astronomical Unit is the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun - 149,597,871 km. How useful! 
Jupiter moves much more slowly. It's year is 4,334.5 Earth days long - almost 12 Earth years. Let's increase the speed! 
That's better. See how the curve forming has small circles. Because Jupiter moves so much more slowly than the earth, the main movement we see in Jupiter's position is from the Earths own movement. We can get a better idea of where we are if we show the other planets. 
That's the end of the lesson! Hopefully you learnt something new. Now try something by yourself - what would the Earth's motion look like to a martian?
Try this! :) gunn.co.nz
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Alien Sexist?
Michio Kaku
Astrophysician professor in Physics
City University of New York.
Dr. Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist, best-selling author, and popularizer of science. He’s the co-founder of string field theory (a branch of string theory), and continues Einstein’s search to unite the four fundamental forces of nature into one unified theory.via: Do aliens exist? wimp.com
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Thursday, June 17, 2010
It's official: the new black is very, very black /The Guardian
Scientists have developed a metamaterial that reflects almost no light - making it very black indeed
To the probable disappointment of fashionistas everywhere, scientists have taken it on themselves to decide on the new black. And it is (drumroll please): black. But it's a black that's blacker than any black before it. How much more black could you get? As Spinal Tap guitarist Nigel Tuffnell said of the cover of the band's last album, Smell the Glove: "None more black."
The "blacker than black" substance developed by scientists does not occur in nature; nor is it some sort of paint. Rather, it is a "metamaterial": an intricately constructed array of tiny silver wires embedded in aluminium oxide, which does weird things to the light waves that hit it, bending them in odd ways and sending them in unnatural directions.
Made by a team of scientists led by Evgenii Narimanov of Purdue University in Indiana, the result of this metamaterial is something that reflects almost no light, meaning it looks very, very black. Why would you want such a material? Narimanov tells New Scientist that the primary application of his type of material is likely to be military, specifically in building equipment invisible to radar.
But the next stage – creating metamaterials that can manipulate visible light to the point that objects become invisible to the naked eye – is much harder, as the wavelength of visible light is thousands of times smaller than that of radio waves. So, sadly for Harry Potter fans, it will be a long time before scientists can weave a cloak of invisibility.
via guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Blast from the Past: Collection Part 5
Old Pictures is an educational site with a wide variety of
old photographs
old photographs
- Part 1 Blast from the past: Remote ancestors and faces in 3D
- Part 2 Forward to the Past
- Part 3 Medieval snapshot
- Part 4 More ancestors than we thought!
- Part 5 A Blast from the Past: Collection | Part 5
- Part 6 Blast from the Past 6 | When life was in B&W
3D + MUSIC + COMPUTER + KNOWHOW + FEELINGS + PHYSICS + MATHEMATICS + SPIRIT + LOVE / PART 3
3D + MUSIC + COMPUTER + KNOWHOW + FEELINGS + PHYSICS + MATHEMATICS + SPIRIT + LOVE / PART 3
3D + MUSIC + COMPUTER + KNOWHOW + FEELINGS + PHYSICS + MATHEMATICS + SPIRIT + LOVE / PART 1
Constellation: Earth, Moon, Mars / Nasa
In this interactive feature, NASA Astronaut Pam Melroy guides you through Constellation's missions to Low Earth Orbit, the moon and ultimately Mars.http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/CxEMM_SITE/index.html
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Quantum Weirdness
Quantum weirdness wins again: Entanglement clocks in at 10,000+ times faster than light "No matter how many times researchers try, there's just no getting around the weirdness of quantum mechanics..." article by JR Minkel
"Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) theory has developed to be the theory that defines almost all of the understanding of our physical universe. It is the most successful theory of our time to describe the way microscopic, and at least to some extent, macroscopic things work..."
"Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) theory has developed to be the theory that defines almost all of the understanding of our physical universe. It is the most successful theory of our time to describe the way microscopic, and at least to some extent, macroscopic things work..."
Quantum Weirdness! What the BLEEP Do We Know!?
"One physics experiment that is fascinating to contemplate is the double-slit experiment. You shine a light through a slit in a wall onto a light-sensitive screen behind it, and you get an exposure of light in the form of a single vertical line behind the slit..."
Sunlight takes about 8 minutes, 19 seconds to reach Earth. wikipedia.org
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Steampunk Lunar Explorer
This 1970's explorer looks closer to Jules Verne's times than modern. It shows the evidence of serious technological progress in 40 years. 
source: Lunokhod: Reflections on a Moon Robot antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov
2/7/10"Mars rover Curiosity, the centerpiece of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, is coming together for extensive testing prior to its late 2011 launch. This image taken June 29, 2010, shows the rover with the mobility system -- wheels and suspension -- in place after installation on June 28 and 29.
Spacecraft engineers and technicians are assembling and testing the rover in a large cleanroom at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
Curiosity's six-wheel mobility system, with a rocker-bogie suspension system, resembles the systems on earlier, smaller Mars rovers, but for Curiosity, the wheels will also serve as landing gear. Each wheel is half a meter (20 inches) in diameter."
nasa.gov
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Spacecraft engineers and technicians are assembling and testing the rover in a large cleanroom at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
Curiosity's six-wheel mobility system, with a rocker-bogie suspension system, resembles the systems on earlier, smaller Mars rovers, but for Curiosity, the wheels will also serve as landing gear. Each wheel is half a meter (20 inches) in diameter."
nasa.gov
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Aliens vs Human Intelligence DNA Evolution Science Alien Contact with Lifeforms Galaxy Universe SETI
Neil deGrasse Tyson is clearly explaining a major fact: If an alien civilisation would reach the Earth, they would probably not even notice us...
via youtube.com
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Moon gets a solar belt
Nuclear fission is not so efficient and hazardeous,
nuclear fusion would be perfect as long as the plant is at safe distance.
We have that plant already: the Sun!
How Lunar Solar Energy Reaches the Earth
Transmitting Energy from the Moon to the Earth
The Energy Paradigm Shift Opens the Door to a Sustainable Society
Japanese firm wants to transform the Moon into a giant solar power plant
Mars 500 / Start of 520-day isolation
But who's gonna do the dishes?
Mars mission in a Moscow hangar is no joke, say astronauts
Six astronauts begin 520 days locked up in windowless mock 'spaceship'
Mars 500 Projet
Saturday, June 5, 2010
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Langley Research Center please call Theo Jansen
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Langley Research Center please call Theo Jansen
Could a roly-poly, wind-powered rover soon zip across Mars?
Michael Cooney Layer 8 on Wed, 06/02/10
"Such a spacecraft is being looked at courtesy of a computer model project at North Carolina State University that lets engineers design all manner of space vehicle designs.
Theo Jansen
Fart fueled life
"...Its surface is covered with mountains, lakes and rivers which has led astronomers to call it the most Earthlike world in the solar system.
Organic chemicals had already been detected on the 3,200-mile wide planet. But the liquid on Titan is not water but methane and the scientists expect life there to be methane-based..."
Scientists find a 'hint of life' on Saturn's moon Titan dailymail.co.uk
Hints of life found on Saturn moon
"...Titan is much too cold to support liquid water on its surface, but some scientists have suggested that exotic life-forms could live in the lakes of liquid methane or ethane that dot the moon's surface..."Friday, June 4, 2010
Police carry out real life raid searching for virtual furniture stolen from online hotel | Mail Online
"Police in Finland have raided five homes searching for virtual furniture stolen from an online hotel.Detectives said around 400 items - including virtual beds, tables, chairs and 'several flat-screen televisions' - were taken from rooms at the Habbo web hotel.Internet gamers check into the hotel where they can meet friends and then purchase furniture to decorate their rooms..." dailymail.co.uk
Doctors to be able to 'print' new organs for transplant patients | Mail Online
A scientist manipulates the prototype 3D bioprinter which is already capable of making real, living arteries
"Doctors might one day be able to 'print' living body parts they need for surgery, including blood vessels and entire organs. The astonishing technique is known as bio-printing and it could make the transplant list a thing of the past. Currently patients on the transplant list have to wait months or even years before a suitable organ becomes available..." dailymail.co.uk
HistoryPin website lets you 'pin' historic photos onto Google Streetview | Mail Online
The Historypin website is collating historic photos which are matched up with their modern locations on Streetview. via dailymail.co.uk
Six astronauts begin 520 days locked up in windowless mock 'spaceship' | Mail Online
"Six men yesterday embarked on a mission to Mars, without even leaving the ground. They will stay locked in a capsule just 20 meters long and 3.6 metres wide for 18 months as part of an experiment to see if people can survive the lonely conditions of a reallife flight to the Red Planet and back."
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Welcome Back
NASA - Expedition 23 Returns to Earth
Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls) "The Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 23 Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineers T.J. Creamer and Soichi Noguchi near the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, June 2, 2010. NASA Astronaut Creamer, Russian Cosmonaut Kotov and Japanese Astronaut Noguchi are returning from six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 22 and 23 crews."
Amazing Copter Flexibility
Work done at the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrotor "> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrotor
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
NASA - Stellar Shrapnel
Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State/S. Park et al. Optical: NASA/STScI/UIUC/Y.H. Chu & R. Williams et al.
"This composite image shows N49, the aftermath of a supernova explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud. A new long observation from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals evidence for a bullet-shaped object being blown out of debris field left over from an exploded star."
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