Earth under 'severe' geomagnetic storm conditions.
Earth under 'severe' geomagnetic storm conditions.
Earth under 'severe' geomagnetic storm conditions.
Three Open Access journals move to Springer
Living Reviews are now affiliated to major academic publisher
MPG, June 24, 2015:
"Springer has acquired the three pioneering ‘living’ open access journals:
Living Reviews in Relativity
(impact factor 19.25),
Living Reviews in Solar Physics
(impact factor 17.64)and the recently launched journal Living Reviews in Computational Astrophysics from the Max Planck Society. Furthermore, Springer has acquired the domain names livingreviews.org and livingreviews.eu, all registered Living Reviews trademarks, as well as the journals’ wordmarks and logos." -- But, who got the bribes and kickbacks?
Archimède le clochard
(Jean Gabin, directed by Gilles Grangier, 1959)
Lives without imagery – congenital aphantasia
by Adam Zeman, Michaela Dewar, and Sergio Della Sala
Cortex, Available online 3 June 2015,
doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2015.05.019
1. Introduction
Visual imagery is, for most of us, a conspicuous ingredient of everyday experience, playing a prominent role in memory, daydreaming and creativity. Galton, who pioneered the quantitative study of visual imagery with his famous ‘breakfast-table survey’, reported a wide variation in its subjective vividness (Galton, 1880). Indeed, some participants described ‘no power of visualising’. This phenomenon has received little attention since, though Faw reported that 2.1-2.7% of 2,500 participants ‘claim no visual imagination’ (Faw, 2009).
The experience of voluntary imagery is associated with activity in fronto-parietal ‘executive’ systems and in posterior brain regions which together enable us to generate images on the basis of our stored knowledge of appearances (Bartolomeo, 2008). The relative contributions of lower and higher order visual regions to the experience of visual imagery are debated (Bartolomeo, 2008). Clinical reports suggest the existence of two major types of neurogenic visual imagery impairment: i) visual memory disorders, causing both visual agnosia and imagery loss, and ii) ‘imagery generation’ deficits selectively disabling imagery (Farah, 1984). Read More »
Sydney Padua: The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer. Pantheon, April 2015, 320 pages, ISBN 978-0-307-90827-8.
"Other"
The camo surface of the Death Star damaged by some wearout holes.
The Great Pyramid of Ceres.
("Scientists estimate that this structure rises about 3 miles (5 kilometers) above the surface. NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image from an altitude of 2,700 miles (4,400 kilometers). The image, with a resolution of 1,400 feet (410 meters) per pixel, was taken on June 6, 2015.", NASA, June 22, 2015)
John-Dylan Haynes at Hayneslab, pictured by Siemens TimTX TrueShape technology.
The history of the Universe, by ESA.
Inceptionism: Do Neural Networks Dream?
Instrument Buch
durch Petrum Apianum erst von new beschriben.
Zum Ersten ist darinne begriffen ein newer Quadrant, dardurch Tag vnd Nacht, bey der Sonnen, Mon, vnnd andern Planeten, auch durch ettliche Gestirn, die Stunden, vnd ander nutzung, gefunden werden.
Zum Andern, wie man die höch der Thürn, vnd anderer gebew, des gleichen die weyt, brayt, vnd tieffe durch die Spigel und Instrument, messen soll.
Zum Dritten, wie man das wasser absehen oder abwegen soll, ob man das in ein Schloß oder Statt füeren möge, vnd wie man die Brünne suchen soll.
Zum Vierden, sindt drey Instrument, die mögen in der gantzen welt bey Tag vnd bey Nacht gebraucht werden: vnnd haben gar vil vnd manicherlay breüche vnd alle geschlecht der Stunden, behalten alle zu gleich ire Lateinische namen.
Zum Fünfften, wie man künstlich durch die Finger der Hände die Stund in der Nacht, on alle Instrument erkhennen soll. Read More »
Grand opening and dedication of the new
Edward-Snowden-Plaza
in Dresden (adjacent to the Bautzner Street)
Sunday June 21, 2015
Oil companies don't advertise like they used to...
Lake District of Titan.
Welsh Secrets in The Black Book of Carmarthen (c.1250 CE).
Yvette Cooper's Auntie Liz
Asteroid Icarus
will safely pass by Earth at more than 21 times the distance of Earth to the moon on June 16, 2015. To put it another way, Icarus, one of the first near-Earth asteroids ever discovered (1949), will approach no closer than five million miles away (eight million kilometers). On June 14, 2090, the asteroid will approach marginally closer, with a close approach distance of about 17 lunar distances (four million miles, or six-and-a-half million kilometers).
NASA detects, tracks and characterizes asteroids and comets using both ground- and space-based telescopes. Elements of the Near-Earth Object Program, often referred to as "Spaceguard," discover these objects, characterize a subset of them and identify their close approaches to determine if any could be potentially hazardous to our planet. NASA's Near-Earth Object Program is part of the agency's asteroid initiative, which includes sending a robotic spacecraft to capture a boulder from the surface of a near-Earth asteroid and move it into a stable orbit around the moon for exploration by astronauts, all in support of advancing the nation's journey to Mars. Read More »
