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MiGUi El espinazo de la noche | una invitación a mirar las estrellas A Curious Mind Here are five science stories that I found intriguing during 2013. I don’t mean to imply that these necessarily represent the most important discoveries, rather, these are simply stories that, for one reason or another, caught my attention more than others. 1. Great Ball of Fire On the morning of February 15, an asteroid that penetrated the Earth’s atmosphere unnoticed (Figure 1), exploded above the Siberian town of Chelyabinsk. Figure 1. Figure 2. 2. While excavating in a parking lot in Leicester, England, archaeologists hit the jackpot. 3. The “Goldbach conjecture” is one of those famous problems in mathematics that has already awaited its solution for more than a quarter of a millennium (since 1742). Figure 3. Figure 4. 4. In his pioneering attempts to calculate the age of the Earth (in 1862) Lord Kelvin had to estimate the temperature in the Earth’s deep interior. Figure 5. 5.
labfolder: free digital lab notebook Scientia Futura ¿Sabían que pueden transformar los... - Por un Chile Sustentable H.R. Giger, 1940-2014: the Xenomorph's father | MZS It seems wrong to say that Swiss surrealist H.R. Giger "passed away" at age 74. Let's respect the man's vision and avoid euphemisms. Say that he died and that his remains will merge with infinity. Giger was a painter, sculptor, graphic artist and production designer. More than one observer has pointed out that almost nothing about the "Alien" creature makes biological/evolutionary sense. And yet the very counterintuitive strangeness of the creature (a collaboration between Giger, screenwriters Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett and director Ridley Scott) worked for the original 1979 film, and the sequels that adapted Giger's designs to suit their own purposes. It was as if somebody had taken the ichthyologist Hooper's description of the Great White in "Jaws" and turned it into a space beast: "A perfect engine, an eating machine that is a miracle of evolution - it swims and eats and makes little baby sharks, that's all." Giger knew what scared us. We didn't know. It never got old. H.R.
Science Gist - Simplifiying science El gran compendio... Bienvenido a Ciencia Histórica. - Ciencia Histórica Gwarlingo – The Polaroids of Andrei Tarkovsky : The Mystery of Everyday Life Polaroid by Andrei Tarkovsky from the book Instant Light: Tarkovsky Polaroids from Thames and Hudson. “Never try to convey your idea to the audience,” said Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, “—it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they’ll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.” Tarkovsky is best known for such cinematic masterpieces as Solaris, The Mirror, Andrei Rublev, and Stalker. Tarkovksy’s vision was unique as a filmmaker; he favored long takes and leisurely scenes that explored the beauty and mystery of everyday life. “We can express our feelings regarding the world around us either by poetic or by descriptive means,” Tarkovsky explained in an 1983 interview with Hervé Guibert in Le Monde. I prefer to express myself metaphorically. Andrei Tarkovsky, Stalker (still), 1979. Andre Tarkovsky on the set of Mirror. I think people somehow got the idea that everything on screen should be immediately understandable. “What is art?