25 of the Most Influential News Images of All Time News Photography is all about capturing the decisive moment in an aesthetic way. It is about telling the world a story, through one or more images. Many times, news images come to be remembered as symbolically associated with a certain event, remembered for decades thanks to that special news image. Let us look at 25 such images. The Great Depression This image of Florence Thompson from the 1930s came to be associated with the great depression, for years to come. Abe Smith and Tom Shipp Abe Smith and Tom Shipp were convicted of robbery and rape in 1930. Jesse Owens Jesse Owens was the most successful athlete in the 1936 Olympics. Moment of Death This image of militiaman Federico Borrell Garcia, captures the precise moment of his death. Hindenburg Airship Hindenburg ignites as it tries to dock into its mooring mast. Fall Of Nazi Collaborators France was liberated in 1944, and women accused of having been collaborated with Nazi personnel, are humiliated in public. Iwo Jima Atom Bomb Skymaster
The decline of Britain's train-manufacturing industry: who is to blame? | Aditya Chakrabortty Bombardier lost out to Siemens to make carriages for the Thamelink route. Photograph: Alamy In the shopping precinct of Derby city centre a great British industry is staging its last stand. There are no guns or whooping Sioux here – instead, you have a gaggle of volunteers in T-shirts and linen trousers clutching petitions to save the local train manufacturer. Melodramatic? So if Britain's train-manufacturing industry is on its deathbed, who put it there? In the fish-wrapper jingoism that tabloids indulged in about the Germans taking our jobs under perfidious European rules, very few made the obvious, if inconvenient, point: their supposed champion of homegrown manufacturing is actually headquartered in Montreal and listed on the Toronto stock exchange. The best thing that Bombardier has offered the Derby staff must be security: some of the local managers were once apprentices here, and thanks to a big union presence have ploughed a lot of money into excellent staff training.
2011 Invention Awards: A Better Mechanical Hand Prosthetic hands typically come in three varieties: purely cosmetic models; hooks and other low-cost mechanical appendages that provide a limited range of motion; and electronic versions that better mimic natural hand movements yet can cost tens of thousands of dollars. Mark Stark's prosthetic incorporates the best elements of each. Although its minimalist plastic assembly is nearly as light and inexpensive as a common steel hook, it looks and moves like a high-end electronic hand. Stark, who makes his living designing valves for dryers and other appliances, got into prosthetics in part to help his friend, Dave Vogt, who was born without a left hand. <div> Please enable Javascript to watch this video </div> Hooks attach to a socket at the end of an amputee's arm and are operated by a cable that runs up to a shoulder harness. Vogt now wears the hand everywhere except to his job as a machinist, where he has to do heavy lifting for which a hook still works better.
All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books - TIME Writing her lover’s “autobiography” proved a witty way for American author Gertrude Stein to detail her own life as Parisian writer, salon host and arts patron. Ostensibly, readers can take in the book, published in 1933, as Stein writing about Alice B. Toklas (which is what the title suggests) or as Toklas “writing” about Stein (which is what the book actually is). Either way, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas was groundbreaking in its experimentation with form: an autobiography written by another person. Next Black Boy NewzCrawler - Rss/atom reader, news aggregator and blog client Sheep Wool Insulation Comes To America Image credit Oregon Shepherd It is common in New Zealand and a luxury in the UK, but now sheep wool insulation has come to America, via Oregon Shepherd. There is a lot to love about this stuff; "This all-natural and inherently fire-retardant material is non-toxic, resists mold growth, is vermin resistant and is acoustically superior." "Our Sheep Make it All Possible And We Take Pride in Keeping Them Well Cared For!" The company lists a number of significant benefits: The unique advantage of wool as an insulator is the NATURE of the fiber. It absorbs and desorbs moisture, it heats and cools as this process takes place. Installation by spraying I am always a bit worried about those additives, but Alex Wilson of BuildingGreen looked at the stuff last year and explains what they have done: Oregon Shepherd enhances wool's inherent fire-retardant properties with a borate additive. He concludes that " The product looks like a winner!"
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