LAURENT GIRARD: Statues of Central Park Robert Burns Photograph (c)Laurent Girard /All Rights Reserved The Falconer Photograph (c)Laurent Girard /All Rights Reserved Sir Walter Scott Photograph (c)Laurent Girard /All Rights Reserved Group of BearsPhotograph (c)Laurent Girard /All Rights Reserved Indian Hunter Three Dancing MaidensPhotograph (c)Laurent Girard /All Rights Reserved The Angel of the WatersPhotograph (c)Laurent Girard /All Rights Reserved Taking photographs since the age of 12, French born Laurent Girard has been one of the world's most sought-after master black and white printers for decades. Archaeologists recreate Elixir of Long Life recipe from unearthed bottle Beneath a construction site for a glassy, 22-story hotel in New York, archaeologists unearthed a history of drinking, eating and lodging, along with a tradition of consuming cure-alls and potions for good health, according to a report in DNA Info. The discovery included a two hundred-year-old glass bottle that once contained the “Elixir of Long Life”. Now the research team have tracked down the original German recipe used to create the elixir for fending off death. “We decided to engage in our own brand of experimental archaeology,” said Alyssa Loorya, the president of Chrysalis, a company regularly hired by the city to oversee excavation projects. Loorya enlisted researchers in Germany to track down the recipe in an old medical guide, which revealed that the potion contained ingredients such as aloe, which is anti-inflammatory, gentian root, which aids digestion, as well as rhubarb, zedoary, and Spanish saffron – ingredients still used by herbalists today. By April Holloway
Procreate - Creativity, has no bounds. Ninth Grade Girls Show Plants Won’t Grow Near Wi-Fi Routers Ninth-graders design science experiment to test the effect of cellphone radiation on plants. The results may surprise you. Five ninth-grade young women from Denmark recently created a science experiment that is causing a stir in the scientific community. It started with an observation and a question. The girls noticed that if they slept with their mobile phones near their heads at night, they often had difficulty concentrating at school the next day. They wanted to test the effect of a cellphone’s radiation on humans, but their school, Hjallerup School in Denmark, did not have the equipment to handle such an experiment. Photo courtesy of Kim Horsevad, teacher at Hjallerup Skole in Denmark. The students placed six trays filled with Lepidium sativum, a type of garden cress into a room without radiation, and six trays of the seeds into another room next to two routers that according to the girls calculations, emitted about the same type of radiation as an ordinary cellphone.
Get the picture? Art in the brain of the beholder - 17 July 2012 Read full article Continue reading page |1|2|3 "My child could have done that!" STANDING in front of Jackson Pollock's Summertime: Number 9A one day, I was struck by an unfamiliar feeling. It was my road-to-Damascus moment - the first time a piece of abstract art had stirred my emotions. Since then, I have come to appreciate the work of many more modern artists, who express varying levels of abstraction in their work, in particular the great Piet Mondrian, Paul Klee, and contemporary artist Hiroshi Sugimoto. Little did I know that researchers have already started to address this question. The studies are part of an emerging discipline called neuroaesthetics, founded just over 10 years ago by Semir Zeki of University College London. Could the same approach tell us anything about the controversial pieces that began to emerge from the tail end of Impressionism more than 100 years ago? Chimp or Rothko? We certainly do have a strong tendency to follow the crowd. More From New Scientist
The King Of All Men Saw Something Drowning In The Ocean. And I Still Can’t Believe What He Did. Viral Nova | If a yellow lab was drowning in the ocean, what would you do? I’m betting you jump in and save his life, right? Well what if the victim was a 400lb bear. Well after a huge black wandered into a Florida community and accidentally walked towards the ocean after being shot with a tranquilizer, a hero stepped up to do the unthinkable, and save one of the most dangerous animals on the planet. After a report was called in about a wild bear roaming around, it was determined that he be tranquilized and moved back to the forest. Soon he began swimming out into the Gulf. “It was a spur of the moment decision. The bear tried lunging at Adam to climb on top of him and stay afloat, but he was losing the ability to move his legs. Everyone held their breath as Adam dragged the nearly-400-pound bear twenty-five yards to land. Eventually others came out to help both man and beast with the final few yards to shore. Something tells me he’ll have quite a story to tell his bear friends.
182, Haruki Murakami The author at his jazz club, Peter Cat, in 1978. Haruki Murakami is not only arguably the most experimental Japanese novelist to have been translated into English, he is also the most popular, with sales in the millions worldwide. His greatest novels inhabit the liminal zone between realism and fable, whodunit and science fiction: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, for example, features a protagonist who is literally of two minds, and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, perhaps his best-known work outside of Japan, begins prosaically—as a man’s search for his missing wife—then quietly mutates into the strangest hybrid narrative since Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy. Murakami’s world is an allegorical one, constructed of familiar symbols—an empty well, an underground city—but the meaning of those symbols remains hermetic to the last. Murakami’s office sits just off the main drag in boutique-choked Aoyama, Tokyo’s equivalent of New York City’s SoHo. That’s right. No, it’s not.
Geneticist David Suzuki Says Humans “Are Part Of A Massive Experiment” We are doing our part to try and spread the word about GMOs, (genetically modified organisms) but we’re not the only ones. Multiple public figures, scientists and researchers have been speaking out about GMOs for a number of years. For example, not long ago a former Canadian Government Scientist at Agriculture Canada, Dr. Thierry Vrain (one of many) spoke out against GMOs. It doesn’t seem to be much of a debate anymore, it’s clear that GMOs can indeed be harmful to human health. This large movement against GMOs is not based on belief, multiple researchers and scientists all around the world have shown that GMOs can be harmful. Along with GMOs come the pesticides, which have been linked to cancer, parkinson’s, autism and alzheimer’s, to name a few. As you can see, alternative media outlets are not the only ones doing their research. Below is an article written by David Suzuki and Faisal Moola. By David Suzuki with Faisal Moola We don’t really know. Sources: Get Your Free Numerology Reading
Blog - Page 1 - King Brown King brown Launch in NYC Posted by: Cleo on the 4th of December, 2015, 1 comment Posted in: kingbrown, launch, new york city It's going down, December 18 & 19 in New York City! Bitetime journal and exhibition Posted by: Ian Mutch on the 30th of August, 2015, 65 comments Posted in: Melbourne, exhibition, publication, zine, ian mutch Solo exhibition by Ian Mutch at 2A/127 Greville Street Prahran. New Walls by Yok and Sheryo at Coney Island Posted by: Yok on the 13th of July, 2015, 31 comments Posted in: yok, sheryo, the yok, street art, Coney Island Art Walls This June we were invited by Jeffrey Deitch to participate in the Coney Island Art walls in Brooklyn NY, alongside a talented roster of artists including, Futura, Crash, How and Nosm and many more. Cosmic Dread - Sean Morris Posted by: Ian Mutch on the 12th of May, 2015, 160 comments Posted in: Exhibition, Sean Morris, Melbourne A little teaser from walls completed at ALL FRESCO 2015 in Auckland, New Zealand. Askew One by Route52 Xoe Hall
Life and Perspective: Are We Just One of Earth’s Cells? We all know there is a delicate balance here on Earth from bacteria to people, but can it be said that our planet is one living being made up of “cells”? Certainly our existence has shaped the planet, but every piece of the puzzle is necessary. Are we a microorganism of Earth? Let’s look at the Complexity theory explained by Neil Theise, a Liver Pathologist and Stem Cell Specialist, that may suggest this very thing. According to his theory, individual interacting parts use feedback to self organize, adapt, and evolve, thereby acting as a whole. Only an estimated 1% of the cells in our body are human, the rest being bacteria, which we need to survive. From our perspective our bodies look solid, but through a microscope we see they’re a collection of cells that only appear to be that way. The more we advance the more we find life is so much more complex than we could have imagined. We are such a small piece of this planet, and it will survive without us. Image Sources Magnified Ant
Shameless Stealing of Other People's Work - 日志 - Tyler - 个人中心_Confucius Institute Online|网络孔子学院 Credit where credit is due: I think I'm the scholar, but I don't wear glasses. The funny thing is, I could put at least one 汉语桥选手 in each category! The Playa' Parents Nouveau Riche 2nd Gen. Worker Scholar Culture Nut Pervert Effeminate Obsessive-compulsive Teenager trying way too hard to suck up to girls. Free food! Or, freedom. Iraq falls to Islamic militants: Here's What The Media Isn't Telling You About WHY it's Happening AFP Photo / HO / Welayat Salahuddin ( Via NaturalNews | Mike Adams) The puppet Iraqi government installed at gunpoint by western imperialist nations is collapsing. Iraq is now being overrun by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The oil-rich city of Tikrit has already been captured, and militants are headed for Baghdad, the capitol city of Iraq. The military surge has sent shockwaves around the world, shining yet another spotlight on the disastrously failed foreign policies of the United States and the Obama administration. U.S. As the DailyMail reported: (1) …30,000 soldiers fled, leaving behind tanks and firearms as just 800 fighters approached. Here’s the map from the DailyMail: Why does all this matter to someone living in the USA? This is part of a global populist revolt that’s only gaining steam. Secondly, Iraq controls 10% of the world’s oil supply, so everything that happens in Iraq impacts us all at the gas pump.