BBC NEWS | UK | Underground search for ‘God particle’
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a powerful and impossibly complicated machine that will smash particles together at super-fast speeds in a bid to unlock the secrets of the Universe.
The age of CERN is coming.
Larry Kagan. Check out his site here. His work is merely strings of iron. when a light is reflected from above with certain angle they give a reflection on the wall. I first saw them in OK Harris gallery.
(via Metro Blogging Istanbul by Ist_Melih)
photograph by Helllwein amazed me.
’The Tripe Artist’ is what they call her.
A showing of her photographs, “Perishables,” opens at the Rivington Arms gallery on New York’s Lower East Side on December 10.
(even though you’re not hungry.)
From C. S. Forester’s description of British Army Headquarters in The General:
“It was like the debate of a group of savages. As to how to extract a screw from a piece of wood. Accustomed only to nails, they had made one effort to pull out the screw by main force, […]
The photo is from the famous Cleopatra beach of Turkey. Topless sunbathing is allowed in beaches in Turkey. Thats what these and many tourists are doing here, further in the picture is a tent setup by an older Turkish couple… creating their own isolation to -outside environment-. peaceful.
http://www.hurriyetim.com.tr/haber/0,,sid~1@w~1@nvid~453673,00.asp
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose,Nothing don’t mean nothing honey if it ain’t free, now now.And feeling good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues,You know feeling good was good enough for me,Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee.( Kris Kristofferson )
I knew about this guy. Especially that photograph of a little boy carrying bottles in his arms while posing as if he’s proud. But I didn’t know how good he actually was. It turns out he is the master of spontaneous photography which I try so hard. Above is Alberto Giacometti in his studio.
Strange story: Appareantly , an English woman named Fiona Katie goes to Iraq. she sets up a blog. puts moderation on the blog so people’s comment would not be visible immediately. she goes into Bagdad and the first thing she does is:Borrow an AK47 and fire it into the air.
since it’s normal in Iraq […]
On MArch 13th - Darpa (The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ) organized a competition for autonomous vehicles. Without any drivers, no repair, no human contact. The vehicles had to race a total distance of 200 miles in a maximum of 10 hours… here are the results of this years competition:
Final Data from DARPA Grand […]
ok these aren’t exactly products of science and technology. still all my neurons tell me they are interesting.
though I’d rather dig a grave and try necrophilia than pay 6000 bucks for one of these.
…way to go mankind.
we saw this bizarre marketing campaign on the weekend. its a row of planes leaving marks of smoke to write a text of cloud in the sky. it read something like “Free Dimonds” followed by a 212 phone number. we agreed it was crap. you can’t see the sky in manhattan.more information