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Japanese earthquake victim If your home was hit by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake, a tsunami, and radiation from a nuclear power plant, you'd be forgiven for not remaining calm. Yet that's what many Japanese quake victims appear to be doing. People are forming lines outside supermarkets.
Looting in Japan: Why so little looting in Japan? The explanation is legal as much as cultural. - By Christopher Beam
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Development: Andrew Kesper Source: Google Aerial photos taken over Japan have revealed the scale of devastation across dozens of suburbs and tens of thousands of homes and businesses. Hover over each satellite photo to view the devastation caused by the earthquake and tsunami. Sendai Airport © Google, Digital Globe, GeoEye Hover over the image to toggle before/after
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In Person: Falling Off the Ladder: How Not to Succeed in Academia
One Friday evening in the winter of 2009, I ended a 20-year affiliation with a college of the University of London, lugging three boxes of personal possessions and a bucket containing 12 tropical fish from my emptied office. In the face of looming redundancy, brought on by my failure to contribute adequately to my department's last Research Assessment Exercise submission, I jumped before I was pushed. I left with a compromise agreement and a lot of thoughts about how my career, initially as a reasonably successful scientist, had come to such a sticky end.
Jacob Barnett,12, with higher IQ than Einstein develops his own theory of relativity
By Daily Mail Reporter Created 4:03 PM on 24th March 2011 A 12-year-old child prodigy has astounded university professors after grappling with some of the most advanced concepts in mathematics. Jacob Barnett has an IQ of 170 - higher than Albert Einstein - and is now so far advanced in his Indiana university studies that professors are lining him up for a PHD research role.
Lisa Doreen Boyle is an American model known for her appearances in Playboy magazine and its various Special Editions, often teamed with Patricia Ford . She is a professional photographer, shooting content for her own website, as well as freelance work for various publications. [ edit ] Early life Boyle was born in Chicago, Illinois .
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Introduction Engineers, researchers, and students who are familiar with image processing or compression has most likely used the picture of "Lenna" or "Lena" in their experiments or project assignments, as the Lenna picture is one of the most widely used standard test images. Today, the use of Lenna image has been recognized as one of the most important events in the history of electronic imaging.
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A digital backlot (also known as a virtual backlot ) is a motion picture set that is neither a genuine location shoot nor practical (i.e. hand-built) sets on the soundstages; the shooting takes place entirely on a stage with a blank background (often a greenscreen ) that will have an artificial environment put in during post-production. It is often used in futuristic films to achieve what would otherwise be too expensive or outright impossible to build as a real set. [ edit ] Notable films Among the first films to introduce the technique was Mini Moni the Movie by Shinji Higuchi in 2002, predated by Rest In Peace by Stolpskott Film (2000). [ 1 ] Others include: [ edit ] Released Rest In Peace ( Sweden , 2000 ) - Shot entirely with green-screen.
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infomals - Behold The World’s Largest Photo Ever Taken Indoors: 40 Gigapixels Of Awesome
We interrupt our live coverage of breaking news about Internet companies from around the world to point you to this phenomenal 360-degrees photo (okay, actually it’s 2,947 pictures stitched together). It is, to our and the photographer’s knowledge, the largest photo ever taken indoors with 280,000 x 140,000 pixels of awesomesauce. In the screenshot above, in the painting on the ceiling, do you see that angel holding a book, right below the cross? No worries if you can’t, because I zoomed in to give you a close-up: That’s how freaking amazing this picture is. The photo was taken by photographer and 360cities founder Jeffrey Martin, and shows the interior of the magnificent, 18th-century baroque library you can find inside the Strahov Monastery in Prague, Czech Republic.
<img width="250" height="187" border="0" src="/images_blogs/wiredscience/images/2007/11/06/organprint_fig1_f.jpg" title="Organprint_fig1_f" alt="Forgacs Lab" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; float: right;" /> A Missouri professor took several types of chicken heart cells and 3D printed them into large sheets with cell-friendly gel. The cells took over from there, sorting themselves into working order.