Κυριακή 9 Σεπτεμβρίου 2012
'Creating the Spectacle!' Online - Part 1 - Finding Freedom.
Creating the Spectacle!' Online - Part 1 - Finding Freedom.
'Creating the Spectacle!' is a ground breaking series of live art and film events that record an underwater wheelchair as it flies through the water with its human occupant.
In this Online event, Freewheeling will present a series of films in the lead up to live events in the swimming pool at Osprey Leisure Centre on Portland, Dorset (2'9th August - 1st September), ICCI 360 Arena, Weymouth, Dorset (29th August) and the Unlimited Festival at the Royal Festival Hall, London (30th August - 9th September). This work is supported by LOCOG and the Arts Council through an Unlimited Commission
In 'Part 1 - Finding Freedom', The underwater wheelchair enables Sue Austin to go on a gentle, dream like exploration of an exotic underwater world.
Through unexpected juxtapositions, this work aims to excite and inspire by creating images that transform preconceptions.
You can find out more at www.wearefreewheeling.org.uk
Σάββατο 8 Σεπτεμβρίου 2012
First Animal to Survive in Space
Tardigrades or "Water bears" are the only creatures that can survive the extreme conditions in the vacuum of outer space.
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Mike Shaw is a quiet, unassuming man in love with the wilderness. He also knows far more about tardigrades then almost anyone. These microscopic creatures, whose name comes from the German for “slow walker,” and who are sometimes called “water bears,” after their bear-like gait, are biological oddities. While their nervous system looks and acts like us, they are wholly different and can survive in extreme situations that almost no other living organism can – including space.
Beginning in 2007, biologists sent these little suckers up to the space station (along with other so-called extremophiles) and found that tardigrades can survive the vacuum of space and the life-zapping radiation of the sun. Other experiments have shown that adult tardigrades can survive both extreme pressures and temperatures, ranging from -459 degrees Fahrenheit up to 300 degrees Fahrenheit. Even if recent DNA and RNA sequencing show that tardigrades are the sister group to arthropods and Onychophora, their evolutionary lineage is unclear. Some have even theorized – cue the X Files music – that tardigrades came from another planet, and rode to Earth on space debris.
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Mike Shaw is a quiet, unassuming man in love with the wilderness. He also knows far more about tardigrades then almost anyone. These microscopic creatures, whose name comes from the German for “slow walker,” and who are sometimes called “water bears,” after their bear-like gait, are biological oddities. While their nervous system looks and acts like us, they are wholly different and can survive in extreme situations that almost no other living organism can – including space.
Beginning in 2007, biologists sent these little suckers up to the space station (along with other so-called extremophiles) and found that tardigrades can survive the vacuum of space and the life-zapping radiation of the sun. Other experiments have shown that adult tardigrades can survive both extreme pressures and temperatures, ranging from -459 degrees Fahrenheit up to 300 degrees Fahrenheit. Even if recent DNA and RNA sequencing show that tardigrades are the sister group to arthropods and Onychophora, their evolutionary lineage is unclear. Some have even theorized – cue the X Files music – that tardigrades came from another planet, and rode to Earth on space debris.
Their secret? The little water bear is one of few groups of species that are capable of reversibly suspending their metabolism and going into a dehydrated state called cryptobiosis. In this kind of suspended animation, a tardigrade’s metabolism lowers to less than 0.01% of normal, with water content dropping to 1% of normal. No wonder they’ve got staying power: some 1,150 species of tardigrades have been described throughout the world, and they’ve been found to live virtually everywhere, from the Himalayas (above 20,000 feet), to the deep sea (below 13,000 feet) and from the polar regions to the equator.
The amazing tardigrade
But back to Mike. He decided that we as a human race needed to know more about these otherworldly creatures. He set out to do a field study of the tardigrade population of New Jersey. (You can find them in lichens and mosses, on dunes, beaches, soil, and marine or freshwater sediments.) He studied these moss piglets over a year and half and submitted a paper to a renowned tardigradoligist (yes, that’s a real kind of scientist). His research is done, and while he waits for the paper to see the light of day, he has since moved on to Virginia. But he hasn’t changed his routine. Being quiet in the woods with no focus other then to look and interact with these microscopic animals has changed him. And even if he doesn’t really know if these mysterious little creatures came from outer space, he says he’s more at peace now. After having spent some time with Mike and these little space bears in the woods, so are we.
A “space bear” (not, technically, a tardigrade)
Παρασκευή 7 Σεπτεμβρίου 2012
TRIBUTE TO MOUNT ATHOS
ΦΩΤΟΓΡΑΦΙΕΣ ΚΑΙ ΕΙΚΟΝΕΣ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΑΓΙΟΝ ΟΡΟΣ καλογεροι εν ωρα εργασιας
Λίγα μίλια ΝΑ του Άθω βρίσκεται το μεγαλύτερο βάραθρο του Αιγαίου που από τα 80μ βάθος, απότομα φθάνει τα 1070μ.
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| ΑΓΙΑ ΖΩΝΗ ΠΑΝΑΓΙΑΣ |
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| ΠΑΝΑΓΙΑ ΓΕΡΟΝΤΙΣΑ Ι. Μ. ΣΤΑΥΡΟΝΙΚΗΤΑ |
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| ΠΑΝΑΓΙΑ ΓΑΛΑΚΤΟΤΡΟΦΟΥΣΑ |
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| ΠΑΝΑΓΙΑ ΠΑΡΑΜΥΘΙΑ |
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| ΠΑΝΑΓΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΧΑΡΟΥ |
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Το Άγιο Όρος αποτελεί αυτοδιοίκητο τμήμα τουΕλληνικού Κράτους, που βρίσκεται στη χερσόνησο του Άθω της Χαλκιδικής στη Μακεδονία.
Περιλαμβάνει είκοσι Ιερές Μονές και άλλα μοναστικά ιδρύματα και ανεπίσημα χαρακτηρίζεται ως "Αυτόνομη Μοναστική Πολιτεία". Αποτελεί το κέντρο του Ορθόδοξου χριστιανικού μοναχισμού με μνημεία μεγάλης εθνικής, ιστορικής, θρησκευτικής, γραμματειακής και πολιτισμικής αξίας σε παγκόσμια κλίμακα.
Από το 1988 συγκαταλέγεται στον κατάλογο τωνΜνημείων Παγκόσμιας Πολιτιστικής Κληρονομιάς.
Τετάρτη 5 Σεπτεμβρίου 2012
SHAKIRA THE BEST
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Η Σακίρα Ιζαμπέλ Μεμπαράκ Ριπόλ γεννήθηκε στις 2 Φεβρουαρίου, 1977 στην Κολομβία και είναι τραγουδίστρια, συνθέτρια και στιχουργός. Έκανε την πρώτη της εμφάνιση στη μουσική σκηνή της Κολομβίας και της Λατινικής Αμερικής στις αρχές του 1990. Τα άλμπουμ "Whenever, Wherever", "Laundry Service", "Fijación Oral Vol.1" και "Oral Fixation Vol.2" πούλησαν εκατομμύρια αντίτυπα και το τραγούδι "Hips Don't Lie" έγινε το καλύτερο σε πωλήσεις τραγούδι του 21ου αιώνα.
Το 1995 ίδρυσε την οργάνωση "Pies Descalzos Foundation" δηλαδή "Ίδρυμα Ξυπόλητα Πόδια", μία Κολομβιανή φιλανθρωπική οργάνωση που παρέχει ειδικά σχολεία για φτωχά παιδιά σε όλη την Κολομβία.
Έχει στην κατοχή της βραβεία Γκράμι, Λάτιν Γκράμι, βραβεία Λάτιν Μπίλμπορντ και ήταν υποψήφια για Χρυσή Σφαίρα.
Είναι η Κολομβιανή καλλιτέχνης με τις υψηλότερες πωλήσεις όλων των εποχών, και η δεύτερη κατά σειρά πιο επιτυχημένη λατίνα τραγουδίστρια (μετά την Γκλόρια Έστεφαν).
Το τραγούδι "Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)" επιλέχτηκε ως ο ύμνος της Διοργάνωσης του Παγκόσμιου Κυπέλλου Ποδοσφαίρου το 2010.
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