Stunning 10K Timelapse of Brazil 10328x7760 - A 10K Timelapse Demo from SCIENTIFANTASTIC on Vimeo. To showcase the awesome power of the PhaseOne IQ180 camera, timelapser and photographer Joe Capra, a.k.a. Scientifantastic, had to become a surgeon of sorts. 10328x7760 - A 10K Timelapse Demo is exactly what it sounds like: a timelapse video constructed out of photographs with a resolution higher than your computer can handle. Full screen this. "This footage comes from some shots I did while shooting 4K and 8K timelapses in Rio De Janeiro for a major electronics manufacturer," says Capra in the video's description. "I wanted to show a couple things with this demo video," Capra explains. Check out 10328x7760 - A 10K Timelapse Demo above, and enjoy the glorious detail with these screencaps below: 14% scale. 50% scale 100% scale Check out more of Joe Capra's work on Vimeo and Scientifantastic. Related: Swooping Seagull Flight Paths Revealed in Time-Blended Video Aurora Borealis Timelapse Gets a Stunning Kaleidoscopic Makeover
More Mexicans Leaving Than Coming to the U.S. Net Loss of 140,000 from 2009 to 2014; Family Reunification Top Reason for Return By Ana Gonzalez-Barrera More Mexican immigrants have returned to Mexico from the U.S. than have migrated here since the end of the Great Recession, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of newly available government data from both countries. The same data sources also show the overall flow of Mexican immigrants between the two countries is at its smallest since the 1990s, mostly due to a drop in the number of Mexican immigrants coming to the U.S. From 2009 to 2014, 1 million Mexicans and their families (including U.S.-born children) left the U.S. for Mexico, according to data from the 2014 Mexican National Survey of Demographic Dynamics (ENADID). Measuring migration flows between Mexico and the U.S. is challenging because there are no official counts of how many Mexican immigrants enter and leave the U.S. each year. Calculating the Flow from the U.S. to Mexico The View From Mexico
DGPC | Palaeobotany Palaeobotany is the study of vegetal remains (macro and micro fossils) deposited and preserved in various types of sediments. This discipline mainly focuses on the remains encountered in archaeological sites and in their surroundings. Palaeobotany includes different scientific areas: Carpology (seed studies), Anthracology (charcoal studies) and Palynology (study of pollen and other micro-remains). The identification of plant micro and macro fossils permits the interpretation of past natural environments as well as changes in climate, sea level and coast line and the human impact on nature. Together with the other disciplinary areas like geoarchaeology, archaeozoology, human bioarchaeology and lithic Technology it is possible to reconstruct the environment in its anthropological and natural dimension. Reference collection Each of the above mentioned areas of investigation are represented in the reference collections: Macro-fossils: · Seeds (Carpoteca) · Wood and charcoal (Xiloteca)
War, What Is It Good For? Absolutely Nothing. Literally. - BillMoyers.com Afghan security forces patrol following an operation against Islamic State (IS) militants in Achin district in Nangarhar province. NOORULLAH SHIRZADA/AFP/Getty Images) This post originally appeared at TomDispatch. It may be hard to believe now, but in 1970 the protest song “War,” sung by Edwin Starr, hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. That was at the height of the Vietnam antiwar movement and the song, written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong, became something of a sensation. Even so many years later, who could forget its famed chorus? But here’s the strange thing: in a way its authors and singer could hardly have imagined, in a way we still can’t quite absorb, that chorus has proven eerily prophetic — in fact, accurate beyond measure in the most literal possible sense. Unless, of course, you consider an expanding series of failed states, spreading terror movements, wrecked cities, countries hemorrhaging refugees and the like as accomplishments. An Arms Race of One
Best of 2013: James Jean, February 2013 For the rest of the month, we are looking back on some of our favorite features from our print edition. Today, we look at the February 2013 cover story with James Jean. At the time, James Jean retired, then didn’t really retire at all. In a similar vein of Michael Jordan, who retired from one phase of his career only to return stronger and more well-equipped to dominate once again, Jean left the illustration world behind in 2008, redefining himself as one of the most talented and intriguing fine artists of his generation... On the eve of perhaps the biggest show of his career, Parallel Lives, opening at Tilton Gallery in NYC on January 9, 2013 Jean was, once again, at a crossroads. Juxtapoz.com/James-Jean
Blocked action on infrastructure will cost us all dearly An alarm bell went off this week about the state of the nation’s infrastructure and what government inaction is costing every American household – but the news media seems to have hit the mute button on the alarm in the rush of wall-to-wall Donald Trump coverage. But something that is costing each American family on average $3,400 a year is worth at least a few minutes of discussion – especially in the context of this Trump-besotted presidential campaign. That is the money that the American Society of Civil Engineers this week said in its latest “Failure to Act” report that each U.S. household is losing “each year in disposable income due to infrastructure deficiencies.” Not adequately investing in infrastructure is costing the economy more than three times more than what it would cost to bring these systems up to a state of good repair. It’s a sobering number – perhaps too sobering for the mainstream media, which for the most part passed on the chance to even mention this report.
Go Set A Watchman: read the first chapter - interactive Since Atlanta, she had looked out the dining-car window with a delight almost physical. Over her breakfast coffee, she watched the last of Georgia’s hills recede and the red earth appear, and with it tin-roofed houses set in the middle of swept yards, and in the yards the inevitable verbena grew, surrounded by whitewashed tires. She grinned when she saw her first TV antenna atop an unpainted Negro house; as they multiplied, her joy rose. Jean Louise Finch always made this journey by air, but she decided to go by train from New York to Maycomb Junction on her fifth annual trip home. For one thing, she had the life scared out of her the last time she was on a plane: the pilot elected to fly through a tornado. She was glad she had decided to go by train. Luckily, he happened to be patrolling the corridor when the trap snapped shut with her in it: “I’ll get you out, Miss,” he called in answer to her poundings from within. The Chattahoochee is wide, flat, and muddy. “Want to drive?” “Why?”
Ronald Reagan’s shameful legacy: Violence, the homeless, mental illness In November 1980, Republican Ronald Reagan overwhelmingly defeated Jimmy Carter, who received less than 42% of the popular vote, for president. Republicans took control of the Senate (53 to 46), the first time they had dominated either chamber since 1954. Although the House remained under Democratic control (243 to 192), their margin was actually much slimmer, because many southern “boll weevil” Democrats voted with the Republicans. One month prior to the election, President Carter had signed the Mental Health Systems Act, which had proposed to continue the federal community mental health centers program, although with some additional state involvement. President Reagan never understood mental illness. California has traditionally been on the cutting edge of American cultural developments, with Anaheim and Modesto experiencing changes before Atlanta and Moline. The results were quickly apparent. By 1975 board-and-care homes had become big business in California.
Universidade de Aveiro disponibiliza, na net, mais de 2500 livros sobre África e Oriente - Observatório da Língua Portuguesa O projeto, que existe desde setembro de 1996, é executado pela Universidade de Aveiro e pelo Centro de Estudos sobre África e do Desenvolvimento (CESA) de Lisboa e tem contado com a participação de instituições de Cabo Verde, Guiné-Bissau, Moçambique, Portugal, São Tomé e Príncipe e Goa. No site, com o endereço além de registos bibliográficos para orientação de investigadores e curiosos, estão agora disponíveis e com livre acesso obras digitalizadas que vão desde livros da escola primária do tempo colonial, a relatórios de antigos governadores das então colónias e outros documentos oficiais. De acordo com Carlos Sangreman, da Universidade de Aveiro, o projeto "Memória de África e do Oriente" em dezembro atingiu 353.991 registos bibliográficos e 343.819 páginas digitalizadas e a base de dados já vai ser acrescentada. Lusa / Fim