Earth Day 2010. Yesterday was Earth Day, since 1970 it's been a day set aside to remember and appreciate the Earth's environment, and all of our roles within it. As a way to help appreciate and observe our environment, I've collected 39 recent images here, each a glimpse into some aspect of the world around us, how it affects and sustains us, and how we affect it. Here's hoping everyone had a great Earth Day yesterday. (39 photos total) The most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth created to date.
Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer of our planet. Much of the information contained in this image came from a single remote-sensing device-NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS. Flying over 700 km above the Earth onboard the Terra satellite. Epsom and Ewell Revisited - A Rephotographic Gallery. A Developing Story – media for a fairer world. Roy Greenslade: Row over photographer's graphic pictures in Ugan. Benjamin Chesterton, a BBC Radio 4 documentaries producer, who runs the UK-based journalism/production company duckrabbit, has raised a series of questions about a disturbing set of pictures by the award-winning photographer Marco Vernaschi.
Vernaschi's work, funded and promoted by the Pulitzer Centre on Crisis Reporting, is about child sacrifice in Uganda, which is an entirely reasonable subject to tackle. But Chesterton writes: Nothing... in my journalistic career could prepare me for the disturbing truth as to how a number of the photos were taken.By his own account a grieving mother was persuaded by Vernaschi to exhume her child's body so that he could take photographs of her mutilated daughter, after which payment was made to the family and the picture published by the Pulitzer Centre. A second picture showed a naked child with his penis cut off and a catheter protruding from the scar.
Another photographer, André Liohn, also registered a complaint with the Pulitzer Centre. The blog of street photographer, humourist and filmmaker, Paul T.
Awards. Websites. Portraits In Posthumanity: Claudia Mitchell - Posthumanity - io9. @Lassus: A) Yes, I believe her prosthesis is a tool. Because it doesn't fundamentally change her as a person, including her thought processes, it's nothing more than a physical interface - a tool. That's not a bad thing. In fact, I think it's a wonderful tool, and I'm glad we're developing these advanced tools to help ourselves, especially those who are disabled.
B) Though it's a broad assumption, I'll give you that most likely nobody -here- thinks less of this woman for any reason or intends disrespect. But we need to be mindful of how we use language and apply terminology - because even though the members of this site may tend to be on the more progressive side of the spectrum, there are those in the broader human community who aren't. Nevertheless, applying the term "posthuman" to someone like this woman may eventually, inadvertantly, DO harm, whether we like it or not. Look at the term: "Post" meaning "beyond" or "past" (and thus "different") + "human. "