Take a moment to read this uplifting post on Exploratorium.
It makes a beautiful connection between art and science, and the key ingredient is imagination.
“Discovery is what makes science interesting for me, because I can continue to “discover” so many new things for myself. I’m particularly fascinated how innovation and imagination work together in the realm of science, not only in generating a hypothesis but also in providing the means to prove or disprove it. My own theory is that little would be discovered at all without imagination and its cousin curiosity.”
Look to the sky to predict earthquakes? Two Geophysicists believe this is possible. Guangmeng Guo and Bin Wang from Nanyang Normal University, China, have found cloud formations that match the fault lines of earthquakes before they occur.
One formation occurred in December 2004. Satellite images showed gaps in the clouds that precisely matched a fault line in southern Iran. Two months later, an earthquake struck in the exact area and 600 lives were lost.
Guo and Wang suggest that the appearance of the phenomena might be due to hot gases that rise up from the fault line ahead of time and evaporate the clouds. According to their evidence, Guo and Wang believe they might have a useful tool for prediction.
Speed jump. Can this be real? Surely not. That Aston was going
pretty fast… Fantastic stunt no matter what. Not so sure about
the style of the trainers though…
Thanks to Sportaphile for the inspiration for this post.
All men, whilst they are awake, are in one common
world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world
of his own. Plutarch
The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don’t know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened. Anon
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.Leo J. Burke
If you ever crawl inside an old hollow log and go to sleep, and while you’re in there some guys come and seal up both ends, and then put it on a truck and take it to another city, boy, I don’t know what to tell you. Jack Handey
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. Woody Allen
Filming of the new Bond movie hit a snag when a local mayor crashed into the set. The mayor’s action was a protest against the scenes being set in his local town – Baquedano, on the outskirts of Antofagasta in northern Chile, which is being used to represent Bolivia.
“In the film Bond only briefly visits Bolivia, but the decision by the producers to use locations in Chile to represent Bolivia has inflamed local tensions,” the Telegraph reports. “Protest in a Chilean newspaper read: Chile is Chile. We’re not Bolivian Indians. Imperialist British out.”
“I disagree with national territory being used as locations [to represent] other countries,” said the mayor, Carlos Lopez. “Even in a fictional film, unfortunately, friendly, neighbouring countries use decisions like this to make unjustified claims.”
According the Telegraph: “Chileans traditionally look down on the poorer Bolivians and there have been protests about the Bond crew using Bolivian flags and uniforms while filming on the streets of Antofagasta. Bolivian militants clashed with Chilean border guards when filming began…”
No one was hurt during the mayor’s protest, and he was detained for causing a public disorder. Full story
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