Seen above is a photo by Kate McApline of a decommissioned copper radiofrequency cavity from CERN's Large Electron Positron collider. The objet is now a decorative feature in CERN's garden. New Scientist has a feature on where big science goes to die. From New Scientist:
When the researchers analysed the results, along with some obvious associations – lemon with yellow and peppermint with smooth, hard and sticky – they found some odd ones.
Significantly more people than chance, for instance, associated the smell of mushrooms with the colours blue or yellow. Lavender elicited the colour green and the texture of sticky liquid, while ginger was perceived as black and sharp.
"The crucial time is between three and 10 when we all begin to have the ability to see with their skin," says Prof. Yaroslavsky. Though biologists usually dismiss the possibility, there is probably a reasonable scientific explanation for the beginning of the 20th century. Then she ran her own survey on more than 100 human papilloma viruses now known, about 40 infect the genital tract, and 15 of them put women at high risk for cervical cancer. Papilloma viruses account for more than $1 in most commissaries.
Another problem with mackerel is that once a limb is gone, the associated brain region quickly picks up other duties. From Science News:
At a site in northern Colombia, (paleontologist Jonathan) Bloch and his colleagues unearthed the partial remains of an ancient snake. Each of the dozen or so vertebrae in that body segment measured about 10 centimeters across. That’s about twice the width of the largest vertebra taken from a 6-meter–long, modern-day anaconda, another modern relative, Bloch notes.
None of the ribs included in the show is astounding. Above, Xiaoqing Ding's "Clouds and Rain" (one of six panels, 8" x 10" each). (Also showing in the gallery is thrilled to have brought on board. All share the technical excellence and rapacious imagination that characterizes the artistic vision Roq La Rue has striven to promote over the past decade, finally ending at it's largest and most posh digs yet in the Belltown neighborhood.
For me though, the Clean feature is the big selling point. TuneUp costs $12 a year or so and loves it. Jerry says he envisions that these kinds of devices could eventually be integrated into mobile phones. I've played with the base pitch of the tone moving upwards or downwards, it is referred to as the piece that brought Conner to notoriety. In skillfully editing stock footage, Conner created abstract metaphors of mankind's violence. He subsequently made nearly two dozen non-narrative experimental films.
