Airports administrators are always valiantly attempting to add some levity to the travel experience, god bless ’em. Yet in this ongoing quest for whimsy and spectacle, they’ve also managed to commission some of the world’s weirdest art. Because what could possibly aid your re-entry into civilization after being strapped to a chair for six hours? Flying corn!
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Western Digital has announced it is redesigned its lineup of My Book external storage devices for Windows and Mac computers. The redesign storage devices offer more space for your favorite content and better performance. The redesign drives now use USB 3.0 connectivity. The redesigned drives are available in 2 TB, 3 TB, and 4 TB […]
In addition to being showered with accolades from Hollywood insiders, this year’s Emmy Award-winner for best television drama, “Breaking Bad,” has been also praised by members of the scientific community.
“To us who are educated in science, whenever we see science presented inaccurately, it’s like fingernails on the blackboard,” the AMC show’s science advisor Dr. Donna Nelson, a professor of organic chemistry at the University of Oklahoma, tells the American Chemical Society’s Bytesize Science series in the video above. “It just drives us crazy, and we can’t stay immersed in the show.”
Fortunately for Nelson and like-minded scientists, “Breaking Bad” gets the science mostly right in its tale of chemistry-teacher-turned-meth-overlord Walter White.
When a dead body is found unrecognizable, whether due to obliteration of soft tissue or the damage caused by the passage of time, a team of forensic artists is called in to create an artistic reconstruction of the deceased’s visage. These artists use the victim’s skull, along with fiberglass, clay and intuition, to mold an approximate likeness of the deceased. Photos of these facial reconstructions are then publicized with the hopes of identifying the anonymous victims.
Photographer Arne Svenson took interest in this strange artistic ritual, described by Stacy Dacheux as “a mask or doll with a troubling echo, seemingly touched by the hands of Frankenstein.” Svenson began photographing the death masks, giving the forensic tools the same artistic attention as a living, breathing subject. Before Svenson’s lens, the facial reconstructions gain a strange life force, taking on the unsettling presence of a haunted marionette. The series, entitled “Unspeaking Likeness,” gives an unflinching glimpse of lives cut short and the unspoken mysteries that may never be solved.
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Despite its popular association with trips to the restroom, fiber is no joke. The benefits of an efficient bowel aside, a high-fiber diet can also reduce the risk of stroke, hypertension and heart disease. Unfortunately, fiber consumption is currently at an all-time low, with less than 3 percent of Americans meeting the recommended intake.
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Victoria’s Secret models recently pulled all-nighters at the Louvre in Paris, but now it’s time to hit the water!
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Looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger has found himself a new lady love.
After rumors of a reconciliation with ex-wife Maria Shriver surfaced, Schwarzenegger was spotted kissing physical therapist Heather Milligan after the pair enjoyed an early dinner together over the weekend at Fig in the Fairmont Hotel in Santa Monica, Calif. The 66-year-old actor walked out of a restaurant with Milligan before escorting her to her car and giving her a smooch goodbye on the lips.
The couple, who were first spotted out together earlier this year, appears to have taken their relationship to the next level after Schwarzenegger seemingly professed a desire to reunite with the mother of his four children. He discussed a possible reunion while promoting his memoir, “Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story.”
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In honor of Mark Rothko’s birthday, we are revisiting a post originally published last year honoring the late artist’s life and work.
Today is the birthday of famed abstract painter, Mark Rothko. The Russian-American artist, known for his radiant rectangles of color, would turn 110 if he were still alive today.
We’re celebrating Rothko’s big day with a book published by Rizzoli New York. Titled “Mark Rothko, The Decisive Decade: 1940-1950,” the work examines what art critics claim is the formative period of art making for the great 20th century painter. It was during this period that Rothko’s expressive figurative and surrealist depictions transformed into the blocks of reds, yellows and blues that became his signature style.
Dying patients could someday receive a 3D-printed organ made from their own cells rather than wait on long lists for the short supply of organ transplants. Such a futuristic dream remains far from reality, but university labs and private companies have already taken the first careful steps by using 3D-printing technology to build tiny chunks of organs.
Regenerative medicine has already implanted lab-grown skin, tracheas and bladders into patients — body parts grown slowly through a combination of artificial scaffolds and living human cells. By comparison, 3D-printing technology offers both greater speed and computer-guided precision in printing living cells layer by layer to make replacement skin, body parts and perhaps eventually organs such as hearts, livers and kidneys.
“Bioprinting organs for human uses won’t happen anytime soon,” said Tony Atala, director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C. “But for tissues we’ve already implanted in patients — structures we’ve made by hand — we’re now going back to those tissues and saying ‘We know we can do better with 3D printing.'” [7 Cool Uses of 3D Printing in Medicine]
From skin to hearts
The difficulty of building organs with 3D printing falls into about four levels of complexity, Atala said. Flat structures with mostly one type of cell, such as human skin, represent the easiest organs to make. Second, tubular structures with two major cell types, such as blood vessels, pose a greater challenge.
Hyun-Wook Kang oversees the 3D printer that will be used to print miniature organs for the “body on a chip” system.
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Epson has unveiled several new projectors aimed at home theater users. The new projectors include the PowerLite Pro Cinema 6030UB, Pro Cinema 4030, and Home Cinema 5030UB/UBe. The Pro Cinema projectors are sold through custom installers while the Home Cinema will be sold through traditional channels. All the projectors offer 2400 lm of color and […]
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