Philosophy
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Monday, July 28, 2014
Maria Callas - Ebben! Ne Andro Lontana - Fron "La Wally" (English Subtitle)
Published on Sep 26, 2012
La Wally is an opera in four acts by Alfredo Catalani, composed on a libretto by Luigi Illica, and first performed at La Scala, Milan on 20 January 1892. The story is set in the Austrian Tyrol where the free-spirited but vulnerable Wally is in love with the handsome Giuseppe Hagenbach, the son of her father's implacable enemy. This leads to the inevitable disastrous conclusion.
Link:http://youtu.be/uIOifQrFtmU
Skeltons
Ray Bandar's skeletons aren't in his closet — they're in his basement. Lots of them. Specifically, 7,000 skulls stacked floor to ceiling, including those of sea lions, cheetahs, jaguars, horses, zebras and other animals.
Bandar has spent 60 years building this scientific collection of animal bones. Now, many of his skulls are on view at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, which has just opened an exhibit featuring his work.
Bandar is a spritely 86 and has an encyclopedic knowledge of these bones. He spent most of his life searching California beaches for dead seals and sea lions. First, he'd decapitate them, which he's authorized to do with a scientific collection permit from the state. The more exotic animals came from local zoos after the animals died. Then, he'd clean their skulls.
"I remove as much flesh as possible. Put them in bucket of water, put them in a warm spot," Bandar says. "Leave it to sit there for weeks and bacterial action removes all the organic material."
He collected his first skull in his 20s, dragging the head of a harbor seal back to his parents' house on public transportation. He would boil the skull in a big pot to get the meat off, he says.
Ray Bandar keeps his skull collection in his San Francisco basement. Some are now on view at the California Academy of Sciences, and eventually he will donate all 7,000 skulls to the academy.Lauren Sommer/KQED
"Boy, did it stink up the house," Bandar says. "When my parents came home, they weren't too happy about that."
Beachgoers would often crowd around Bandar as he collected. Other times, they were less enthusiastic, like when he was working on a 14-foot elephant seal carcass on the beach in front of the Ritz-Carlton. The way he tells it, it made quite a scene.
"I'm sitting on his neck, cutting away, trying to sever the skull from the torso," Bandar says. "I turn around, and standing on the beach is three cops."
They'd received a number of phone calls. More than one of the callers thought he was a homeless man trying to eat the seal.
Bandar sees these bones as pieces of art. When his entire skull collection is eventually donated to the California Academy of Sciences, it will make up a fifth of the museum's collection.
At the museum, Curatorial Assistant Sue Pemberton pulls a harbor seal skull out of a large bucket of water in the specimen preparation room.
"Smells like the worst outhouse you can ever be in," Pemberton says. "But that's how it works. Everything kind of breaks down."
These skulls show the health of marine mammals, whether they were sick and what they ate, Pemberton says. She pulls out a sea otter skull; this one is a little less fleshy.
"You can see what color the teeth are: bright purple, like the color of grape juice," Pemberton points out. That's because this otter ate purple sea urchins, which stained its teeth.
Pemberton heads out to the beach anytime a dead animal is reported, and her work has actually helped change policy. After she found dead whales that had been killed by ship strikes, federal officials put in new speed limits for cargo ships off the coast.
"It's not pleasant by any stretch," she says. "But to know that it's actually helping with the conservation and protection of all the whales that come after that, it makes all really worthwhile."
Pemberton's collection, along with Bandar's, will be studied by scientists for decades to come. For now, the public can catch a glimpse at the new exhibit in California.
SOURCE: http://www.npr.org/2014/06/10/318891562/a-bone-collectors-basement-of-animal-skulls-sees-the-light
Sunday, July 27, 2014
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Weird Paintings of John Brosio
The weird and wonderful paintings of John Brosio. http://boingboing.net/2014/07/21/the-weird-and-wonderful-painti.html …
As long as there have been comic books, there's been a large audience of women to read them http://theatln.tc/1tsTiju
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Monday, July 14, 2014
Saturday, July 12, 2014
The Thirteenth Guest (1932) [Mystery]
Published on Jul 28, 2012
"The Thirteenth Guest" (1932) is an American mystery film, released on August 9, 1932. The film is also known as "Lady Beware" in the United Kingdom. It was based on the 1929 novel by crime fiction writer Armitage Trail best known for writing "Scarface".
The films opens on an old abandoned house and our leading character, Marie Morgan (Ginger Rogers). As she sits down at the banquet table inside, she thinks back to the banquet that was held there 13 years before. A banquet set for 13 guests. However the 13th guest to this banquet never arrived. Now, 13 years later, the 12 attending guests are being murdered and set once again at the banquet table.
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Directed by Albert Ray, produced by M.H. Hoffman, written by Arthur Hoerl (Screenplay)
Frances Hyland (Screenplay) and Armitage Trail (Additional Dialogue), starring Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, J. Farrell MacDonald, Paul Hurst, Erville Alderson, Ethel Wales, James Eagles, Crauford Kent, Eddie Phillips and Frances Rich.
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Source: "The Thirteenth Guest (film)" Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 29 June 2012. Web. 29 July 2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thir...).
The films opens on an old abandoned house and our leading character, Marie Morgan (Ginger Rogers). As she sits down at the banquet table inside, she thinks back to the banquet that was held there 13 years before. A banquet set for 13 guests. However the 13th guest to this banquet never arrived. Now, 13 years later, the 12 attending guests are being murdered and set once again at the banquet table.
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Directed by Albert Ray, produced by M.H. Hoffman, written by Arthur Hoerl (Screenplay)
Frances Hyland (Screenplay) and Armitage Trail (Additional Dialogue), starring Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, J. Farrell MacDonald, Paul Hurst, Erville Alderson, Ethel Wales, James Eagles, Crauford Kent, Eddie Phillips and Frances Rich.
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Source: "The Thirteenth Guest (film)" Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 29 June 2012. Web. 29 July 2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thir...).
Link:http://youtu.be/71IJjCbbK7k?list=PL0EFC672886C0C5E5
Thursday, July 10, 2014
5.9 Cummins
Published on Feb 18, 2014
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Friday, July 4, 2014
How Long Does it Take to Get to Mars?
Published on May 8, 2013
Have you ever wondered how long it takes for spacecraft to travel from Earth to Mars? Universe Today publisher Fraser Cain explains why it takes so long to reach the Red Planet and presents a few cool ideas that might get us to Mars more quickly.
Based on this article from Universe Today:
http://www.universetoday.com/14841/ho...
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If you're hoping to be one of those first human interplanetary explorers, you might want to know: how long does it take to get to Mars?
The journey from Earth to Mars takes about 300 days.
Every two years Mars is at its closest point, only 55 million km from Earth, and it's the ideal time to send a spacecraft.
Travel time depends on the positions of the planets and how much fuel you're willing to burn.
When you're trying to get to Mars, just like in a car, spending more fuel means a shorter travel time.
The first spacecraft to make this journey was NASA's Mariner 4, launched on November 28, 1964 and arrived 228 days later.
This was a flyby mission, where the spacecraft took only 21 grainy photographs of the Martian surface.
Since that first flyby, there have been a total of 21 successful missions sent to the red planet.
This doesn't include a few partial successes and many many failures.
So, why does it take so long?
If Mars is only 55 million km away and if a spacecraft can travel at 20,000 km/hour, you would expect the journey to take only 115 days, but it actually takes much longer.
You can't just point your spacecraft at Mars and start firing your rockets.
Because by the time you got there, Mars would have moved.
Instead, spacecraft need to be pointed at where Mars is going to be.
Then you would follow a trajectory which gets you to your destination using the least amount of fuel possible.
This is trajectory is called a Hohmann Orbit, and was first proposed by Walter Hohmann in 1925.
Here's how it works. You boost the orbit of your spacecraft so that it's following a larger orbit around the Sun than the Earth.
Eventually that orbit will intersect the orbit of Mars - the exact moment Mars is there too.
If you've got less fuel, you just take longer to raise your orbit, which the increases your travel time.
Are you impatient to get to Mars and want to decrease your flight time?
Here are some drawing board proposals to shorten the travel times:
We could use Nuclear rockets.
These work by heating up a propellent to incredible temperatures and then blasting it out a rocket nozzle at high velocity to create thrust.
This gives you higher thrust velocity with less fuel and could decrease travel time down to 7 months.
Or a there's a Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (or VASIMR) which uses radio waves to ionize a propellant which would then be accelerated out the back of the spacecraft using a powerful magnetic field.
A VASIMR engine could decrease Mars travel time down to 5 months.
The most exotic solution is antimatter.
When atoms of matter meet antimatter, they transform into pure energy.
Just milligrams of antimatter would provide enough fuel to propel a human mission to Mars in only 45 days.
But there are so many unknowns for creating and storing that much antimatter, that it'll be decades before it's ready for a real mission.
There are plenty more missions planned, and engineers will be testing out these new technologies, and coming up with even more ideas. So maybe one day, getting to Mars will be as quick and easy as going on a cruise, or taking a road trip.
If you want more space news, subscribe to our channel or check out our website at universetoday.com
Based on this article from Universe Today:
http://www.universetoday.com/14841/ho...
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If you're hoping to be one of those first human interplanetary explorers, you might want to know: how long does it take to get to Mars?
The journey from Earth to Mars takes about 300 days.
Every two years Mars is at its closest point, only 55 million km from Earth, and it's the ideal time to send a spacecraft.
Travel time depends on the positions of the planets and how much fuel you're willing to burn.
When you're trying to get to Mars, just like in a car, spending more fuel means a shorter travel time.
The first spacecraft to make this journey was NASA's Mariner 4, launched on November 28, 1964 and arrived 228 days later.
This was a flyby mission, where the spacecraft took only 21 grainy photographs of the Martian surface.
Since that first flyby, there have been a total of 21 successful missions sent to the red planet.
This doesn't include a few partial successes and many many failures.
So, why does it take so long?
If Mars is only 55 million km away and if a spacecraft can travel at 20,000 km/hour, you would expect the journey to take only 115 days, but it actually takes much longer.
You can't just point your spacecraft at Mars and start firing your rockets.
Because by the time you got there, Mars would have moved.
Instead, spacecraft need to be pointed at where Mars is going to be.
Then you would follow a trajectory which gets you to your destination using the least amount of fuel possible.
This is trajectory is called a Hohmann Orbit, and was first proposed by Walter Hohmann in 1925.
Here's how it works. You boost the orbit of your spacecraft so that it's following a larger orbit around the Sun than the Earth.
Eventually that orbit will intersect the orbit of Mars - the exact moment Mars is there too.
If you've got less fuel, you just take longer to raise your orbit, which the increases your travel time.
Are you impatient to get to Mars and want to decrease your flight time?
Here are some drawing board proposals to shorten the travel times:
We could use Nuclear rockets.
These work by heating up a propellent to incredible temperatures and then blasting it out a rocket nozzle at high velocity to create thrust.
This gives you higher thrust velocity with less fuel and could decrease travel time down to 7 months.
Or a there's a Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (or VASIMR) which uses radio waves to ionize a propellant which would then be accelerated out the back of the spacecraft using a powerful magnetic field.
A VASIMR engine could decrease Mars travel time down to 5 months.
The most exotic solution is antimatter.
When atoms of matter meet antimatter, they transform into pure energy.
Just milligrams of antimatter would provide enough fuel to propel a human mission to Mars in only 45 days.
But there are so many unknowns for creating and storing that much antimatter, that it'll be decades before it's ready for a real mission.
There are plenty more missions planned, and engineers will be testing out these new technologies, and coming up with even more ideas. So maybe one day, getting to Mars will be as quick and easy as going on a cruise, or taking a road trip.
If you want more space news, subscribe to our channel or check out our website at universetoday.com
How Long Does it Take to Get to Mars?
This article originally appeared in Universe Today in July, 2012, but it’s been updated with a related video.
The planet Mars is one of the brightest objects in the night sky, easily visible with the unaided eye as a bright red star. Every two years or so, Mars and Earth reach their closest point, called “opposition”, when Mars can be as close as 55,000,000 km from Earth. And every two years, space agencies take advantage of this orbital alignment to send spacecraft to the Red Planet. How long does it take to get to Mars?
The total journey time from Earth to Mars takes between 150-300 days depending on the speed of the launch, the alignment of Earth and Mars, and the length of the journey the spacecraft takes to reach its target. It really just depends on how much fuel you’re willing to burn to get there. More fuel, shorter travel time.
The History of Going to Mars
The first spacecraft ever to make the journey from Earth to Mars was NASA’s Mariner 4, which launched on November 28, 1964 and arrived at Mars July 14, 1965, successfully taking a series of 21 photographs. Mariner 4′s total flight time was 228 days.
Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/14841/how-long-does-it-take-to-get-to-mars/#ixzz36YAtFgoy
Link: http://www.universetoday.com/14841/how-long-does-it-take-to-get-to-mars/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpOJ6fQ0roI
Goldilocks Planet
This week, excitement was stoked by the discovery of a “Goldilocks planet” within our astronomical neighborhood. Located about 20 light years away in the constellation of Libra, the exoplanet in question has temperatures ranging from –25 to 160 degrees Fahrenheit , orbits its star from a distance of .146 Astronomical Units (about 14 million miles), and has a mass 3 to 4 times that of the earth. In other words, this planet falls within the zone scientists have determined as “just right” for habitability — not too hot, not too cold, not too far from its sun (or too close.)
Unofficially, the planet has been called Zarmina’s World, after the wife of the astronomy team’s leader Stephen Voigt. However, no official means to name an exoplanet exists. The planet naming protocol to date is to designate the planet’s star and a lower case letter starting with b (the star itself is considered the “a”). In this case, being the sixth planet from the star Gliese 581, the planet is called Gliese 581g.
The star Gliese 581 is a red dwarf that is part of the Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars, one of 965 stars within 20 parsecs of earth surveyed in 1957. That means there are 965 stars dubbed Gliese – it does not have a unique designation such as Sirius or Polaris.
Gliese581g is tidally locked to its star, so one side of the planet gets constant light and the other side is constantly in darkness. NASA scientists say the most habitable zone on the planet would be at the terminator, or the line between shadow and light. The planet’s sidereal day equals its orbit of its star, 37 days. Although it is yet to be determined, scientists are hopeful that Gliese 581g has water, an indication that will highly support the possibility of life.
A note about Goldilocks: In the earliest versions of the “Three Bears” story, there was no blond trespasser. The interloper was either an old woman, a “silver-haired” girl, or a fox.
Unofficially, the planet has been called Zarmina’s World, after the wife of the astronomy team’s leader Stephen Voigt. However, no official means to name an exoplanet exists. The planet naming protocol to date is to designate the planet’s star and a lower case letter starting with b (the star itself is considered the “a”). In this case, being the sixth planet from the star Gliese 581, the planet is called Gliese 581g.
The star Gliese 581 is a red dwarf that is part of the Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars, one of 965 stars within 20 parsecs of earth surveyed in 1957. That means there are 965 stars dubbed Gliese – it does not have a unique designation such as Sirius or Polaris.
Gliese581g is tidally locked to its star, so one side of the planet gets constant light and the other side is constantly in darkness. NASA scientists say the most habitable zone on the planet would be at the terminator, or the line between shadow and light. The planet’s sidereal day equals its orbit of its star, 37 days. Although it is yet to be determined, scientists are hopeful that Gliese 581g has water, an indication that will highly support the possibility of life.
A note about Goldilocks: In the earliest versions of the “Three Bears” story, there was no blond trespasser. The interloper was either an old woman, a “silver-haired” girl, or a fox.
Thursday, July 3, 2014
Glenn Gould plays Bach
Uploaded on Sep 23, 2006
Extracts from "The art of Piano" documentary show Glenn Gould playing J.S.Bach's Partita #2
Glenn Gould plays Bach
Uploaded on Sep 23, 2006
Extracts from "The art of Piano" documentary show Glenn Gould playing J.S.Bach's Partita #2
LINKhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB76jxBq_gQ&list=RD89W_cLYQ2gM&feature=share
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