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Richard Clarkson and company wanted to create a kind of low-tech, sensory-deprivation, sofa-style seat where one can curl up and forget the workaday worries of ordinary life … and perhaps even doze over before you notice you are slowly falling asleep. While there is art and craft in this object, there is science that went into its design as well. Specifically, research into autistic children and those who suffer from RMD (rhythmic moving disorder) played a crucial role in the shape and structure of the result. For all its theoretical complexity, the final form looks quite simple (and extremely comfortable).
Incredible macro-photography of people’s eyes. He received a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Yerevan State University in 2001 for research in the field of Quantum Chaos and investigations in the field of Quantum Technologies. Yet, Suren Manvelyan is probably best known for his stunning macro-photography. Especially popular is his series of close-ups of human eyes called Your Beautiful Eyes. The latest works. The latest works "A chameleon" The "eyes" of a chameleon appear to rotate.
Copyright A.Kitaoka 2004 (March 23) "Into the space" The surround appears to rotate clockwise. Copyright A.Kitaoka 2004 (March 19) BMP file for your wallpaper "Rotating spiral snakes" Snakes appear to rotate (peripheral drift illusion*1). Copyright A.Kitaoka 2004 (March 9, 2004) *1 e.g. . *2 e.g. "Rotating snakes 3" Rings of snakes appear to rotate. Copyright A.Kitaoka 2004 (February 25, 2004) "Throwing cast nets" Circles appear to expand. Lucid Dreaming Techniques - StumbleUpon. The Greatest Infomercial Parodies Of All Time. The infomercial follows a simple formula: Hyperbolically overinflate a frustration of daily life, earnestly present a corny product as the easy solution, wonder aloud how expensive such a product would be, and sell it at a fraction of that imaginary price.
Then repeat. Really, it shouldn't work. Consumers should be too smart to fall for this. And yet the infomercial endures--not just because it moves units, but because it has become self-aware, a self-starting advertising meme, a traveling circus willing to play to all expectations. Oradour-sur-Glane: The Village Massacred in WW2 and Preserved Since Then. On 10 June 1944, at around 2 PM, four days after the Allied invasion of Normandy, approximately 150 Waffen-SS soldiers entered the tranquil village of Oradour-sur-Glane in the Limosin region of south central France.
For no apparent reason, Hitler's elite troops destroyed every building in this peaceful village and brutally murdered a total of 642 innocent men, women and children, a tragedy which has gone down in history as one of the worst war crimes committed by the German army in World War II. A new village of Oradour-sur-Glane was built after the war, at the northwest of the site of the massacre, where ruined remnants of the former village still stand as a memorial to the dead and a representative of similar sites and events.
Its museum includes items recovered from the burned-out buildings: watches stopped at the time their owners were burned alive, glasses melted from the intense heat, and various personal items and money. There is one theory has to what may have happened. Cocktail, Formal, Bridesmaids & Maxi Dresses. Dress For Your Figure Every woman wishes for a gorgeous figure like the Tomb Raider actress Angelina Jolie and a style consultant or fashion designer similar to Valentino.
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