Wonderland by Kirsty Mitchell: heart-breakingly beautiful photographic series in memory of an extraordinary life Kirsty Mitchell's Wonderland series has been three years in the makingAll costumes, wigs and sets were constructed on a shoestring budgetSome images took up to five months to createShe would often wait an entire year to find the perfect natural setting for her shots By Stephanie Hirschmiller Published: 14:11 GMT, 17 May 2012 | Updated: 09:34 GMT, 18 May 2012 Kirsty Mitchell's late mother Maureen was an English teacher who spent her life inspiring generations of children with imaginative stories and plays. Following Maureen's death from a brain tumour in 2008, Kirsty channelled her grief into her passion for photography. She retreated behind the lens of her camera and created Wonderland, an ethereal fantasy world. 'Real life became a difficult place to deal with, and I found myself retreating further into an alternative existence through the portal of my camera,' said the artist. The resulting images looked so hyper-real that it was assumed that they were created in Photoshop.
Nanotechnology is coming by Ralph C. Merkle, Principal Fellow, Zyvex This is the English original of an article translated into German and published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of Monday, September 11 2000 on page 55. In the coming decades nanotechnology could make a supercomputer so small it could barely be seen in a light microscope. Not long ago, such a forecast would have been ridiculed. At its heart, the coming revolution in manufacturing is a continuation of trends that date back decades and even centuries. The remarkably low manufacturing cost comes from self replication. While nanotechnology does propose to use self replication, it does not propose to copy living systems. Now that the feasibility of nanotechnology is widely accepted, we enter the next phase of the public discussion: what policies should we adopt to best deal with it? Self replication is at the heart of many policy discussions. Consider, for example, the difference between a bird and an airplane. Further reading:
aragónliterario Architecture Photography by Nina Papiorek Shots by photographer Nina Papiorek of iconic architectural buildings: The London Tower Bridge, the London City Hall, the Vasco da Gama Bridge, and the Spinnaker Tower. London Tower Bridge – Photography by Nina Papiorek London City Hall – Photography by Nina Papiorek Vasco da Gama Bridge – Photography by Nina Papiorek Spinnaker Tower – Photography by Nina Papiorek Stellarium Salas de chat para trabajar en grupo Generalmente vemos herramientas colaborativas que se basan puntualmente en generar proyectos, tareas y asignar. Hall ofrece una variante muy interesante en la cual lo primordial no es eso, sino la conversación con el equipo de trabajo. Según ellos afirman, el futuro del trabajo en grupo estando en línea se basa en que los integrantes puedan conversar sobre el proyecto al mismo tiempo que se suban archivos, notas, videos y demás elementos. Pensándolo así, es algo que automaticamente suena útil sobretodo cuando estamos trabajando con alguien a una distancia importante, caso en el cual realizar una reunión se vuelve imposible o difícil de considerar. Primer punto a dejar claro: Utiliza acceso a nuestra cuenta en Facebook. Una vez accedamos al sitio solo queda hacer click en “Create a War Room” y accederemos a la sala donde vamos a trabajar. Desde ese sector también activamos o desactivamos la cámara, pudiendo generar una videoconferencia simple y efectiva. Web: Hall
Dream Catchers: Showcase of Ethereal Photography Jun 08 2012 Photographers are powerful artists, whose manipulations of the images they capture, if not just the images themselves, can be so breathtaking and dream-like, that they almost exist in another world. Images that feel like amazing moments stolen from someone’s slumber, rather than were taken in the same reality that we all inhabit. This kind of ethereal photography is what we are here to showcase today. Below you can take a walk through worlds so light and airy, created by a range of talented artists who have crafted these dreams and captured them to inspire others. Dream Catchers Offering to the Sun by Nelleke Tree Spirit v.4 by brenditaworks Frenzy by Hengki24 Tree Swing by GaiusNefarious Beneath the Stars by Dee-T untitled by oprisco crack by haksek Time for Rain by sternenfern Juliet IV by KayleighJune Like You Said… by Khomenko King Canute’s Throne by Ian-Plant Friendship by nairafee lose it by ultramaryna Was it all a dream by Grasmaayer Entity by lostknightkg Ice Princess by kameolynn
10 Futuristic Materials Lifeboat Foundation Safeguarding Humanity Skip to content Switch to White Special Report 10 Futuristic Materials by Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Board member Michael Anissimov. 1. Aerogel protecting crayons from a blowtorch. This tiny block of transparent aerogel is supporting a brick weighing 2.5 kg. Aerogel holds 15 entries in the Guinness Book of Records, more than any other material. Carbon nanotubes are long chains of carbon held together by the strongest bond in all chemistry, the sacred sp2 bond, even stronger than the sp3 bonds that hold together diamond. “Metamaterial” refers to any material that gains its properties from structure rather than composition. We’re starting to lay down thick layers of diamond in CVD machines, hinting towards a future of bulk diamond machinery. Diamonds may be strong, but aggregated diamond nanorods (what I call amorphous fullerene) are stronger. Transparent alumina is three times stronger than steel and transparent. inShare28 Materials
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