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(Image: Marvel/Paramount) A feeble weakling is given an experimental drug that transforms him into a muscled superman in Marvel Studios' latest comic book adaptation. But Captain America: The First Avenger is a far from super movie. Set in the second world war, it follows Steve Rogers ( Chris Evans ), a New Yorker desperate to enlist and fight Nazis, but who is continually rejected because he's short, skinny and unfit, and has a list of health problems longer than his arms. He finally meets scientist Abraham Erskine ( Stanley Tucci ), who invites him to take part in a programme to develop supersoldiers. There he meets his new boss, Colonel Chester Phillips ( Tommy Lee Jones ), who steals every scene he's in with a torrent of derogatory one-liners, and love interest Peggy Carter ( Hayley Atwell ), the obligatory "plucky Brit" character.
CultureLab: Captain America: Supersoldiers vs glowing blue things
Every river system mapped in World of Rivers
The annual Malofiej awards, for top graphics in journalism, were handed out last week. The best map of 2010 went to National Geographic for the World of Rivers . Every river system in the world was mapped and scaled by annual discharge. We live on a planet covered by water, but more than 97 percent is salty, and nearly 2 percent is locked up in snow and ice. That leaves less than one percent to grow our crops, cool our power plants, and supply drinking and bathing water for households.
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A Billboard That Advertises Nothing But Clean Air | Co.Design
A provocative new sculpture has opened at the U.S.-Canada border crossing near Vancouver, BC. It?s a billboard advertising...well, nothing.
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Hypnosis reaches the parts brain scans and neurosurgery cannot | Vaughan Bell | Science | guardian.co.uk
Whenever AR sees a face, her thoughts are bathed in colour and each identity triggers its own rich hue that shines across her mind's eye. This experience is a type of synaesthesia which, for about one in every 100 people, automatically blends the senses. Some people taste words, others see sounds, but AR experiences colour with every face she sees.PHD Comics: Tales from the Road - The NMSU Chile Pepper Institute
Harvard Coop - event has been canceled. Sorry, everyone. The PHD Movie - Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who is purchasing the movie !
What Are We Made Of? : Through The Wormhole : Science Channel
Our understanding of the universe and the nature of reality itself has drastically changed over the last 100 years, and it's on the verge of another seismic shift. In a 17-mile-long tunnel buried 570 feet beneath the Franco-Swiss border, the world's largest and most powerful atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, is powering up. Its goal is nothing less than recreating the first instants of creation, when the universe was unimaginably hot and long-extinct forms of matter sizzled and cooled into stars, planets, and ultimately, us. These incredibly small and exotic particles hold the keys to the greatest mysteries of the universe. What we find could validate our long-held theories about how the world works and what we are made of.
Op-Ed: DEA Call For Ebonics Experts Smart Move : NPR
It seemed routine enough. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, or DEA, recently sent out a call, soliciting translators in more than 100 languages and dialects. Those translators are needed to help interpret wiretapped conversations for investigations. But one of the languages in the posting took many by surprise. The DEA wants nine Ebonics translators.
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You can sign up and test it out for yourself. So far Im a bit confused as to how to add revewers etc. It looks like the site is set up to publish open scientific publications.
What is Twitter and Why Scientists Need To Use It. | Deep Sea News
Bora Zivkovic an expert about scientific blogging and microblogging , and chair of ScienceOnline states that Twitter forces one to think about the economy of words, to become much more efficient with one’s use of language. It takes work and thought and practice to get to the point of tweeting truly well. I remember Jay Rosen once saying that some of his tweets take 45 minutes to compose and edit until he is satisfied that the text uses the words for maximal clarity and impact. There is no luxury in using superfluous language and the result can be a crystal-clear statement or description that far outshines the often-wordy original [paper, news article, blog post] . Perhaps the best way to think of Twitter as relevant to science was put forth by James DaceyOn the third day of an international conference in France of experts on prehistoric rock art, National Geographic Digital Media senior producer Andrew Howley makes his first visit into caves adorned with images painted 13,000 years ago. Tarascon-sur-Ariège, France– Today the laptops were shut and the projectors powered down, as the participants in the IFRAO conference on prehistoric rock art around the world piled into buses with people who shared their language for tours of some of the region’s most beautiful and important decorated caves. I was with Group 4: English-speaking and headed for Bédeilhac and Niaux. The grand entrance to Bédeilhac, one-time warplane repair shop. Photo by Andrew Howley
Walking Into the Stone Age - NatGeo News Watch
After five months of retooling, we’re relaunching Digital Humanities Now today. As part of this relaunch it has been moved into the PressForward family of publications, as one of that project’s new models of how high-quality work can emerge from, and reach, scholarly communities. The first iteration of DH Now , which we launched two years ago , relied almost entirely on an automated process to find what digital humanities scholars were talking about and linking to (namely, on Twitter ). About a year ago, in an attempt to make the signal-to-noise ratio a bit better, I took my slightly tongue-in-cheek “Editor-in-Chief” role more seriously, vetting each potential item for inclusion and adding better titles and “abstracts.” Today we take a much larger step forward, in an attempt to find and highlight the best work in digital humanities, and curate it in such a way as to be maximally useful to the scholarly community.
Dan Cohen’s Digital Humanities Blog
Should academic journals be in the business of selling content or should they be re-invented as not-for-profit knowledge portals and user communities, funded and regarded in similar ways as public media? It's a question I addressed earlier today , as I discussed several strategies for catalyzing the movement towards open-access scholarship. This spring, a panel of experts gathered by C olumbia University's Scholarly Communication Program considered the same questions.