The primary camera on the Hubble Space Telescope shut down over the weekend after the backup power supply failed, the primary power supply having already gone out last June. The telescope’s remaining sensors are still in operation, but the camera will not be restored until 2008 when a scheduled Shuttle service mission will upgrade it beyond its previous capabilities.
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(…) She continued her piano studies with Sonia Vargas, professor at Manhattan School of Music. She soon began writing songs for voice and piano, and went on to complete the four-year studio composition program at the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College in three years, graduating with honors. After a year spent working on a butterfly farm in Wisconsin, as you do, she returned to settle in NYC. She says she was originally only interested in classical music, but eventually developed an interest in other styles including hip-hop, rock and punk. She gained recognition in NYC’s anti-folk scene, performing regularly at a number of venues including the East Village’s Sidewalk Cafe. (…)
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Miss seeing Comet McNaught due to weather, location and/or laziness? Me too, enter the interbrainz.
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Previously: Comet McNaught Visible In Daylight
Jill Greenberg photographs a lot more than monkeys, but I mean … the monkeys.
Rhombus!
Everything you don’t know about life, but won’t admit, explained on film. I don’t need it but I thought you might.
The first annual Channel Frederator Awards were held last night in Hollywood, featuring some of the best independant animated shorts from last year.
“A species of shark rarely seen alive because its natural habitat is about 2,000 feet under the sea was captured on film by staff at a Japanese marine park this week.”
“More than 85 per cent of us expect the future to be happier than it is now, according to researchers. (…)”
Some new video of Jeff Han’s more recent work with multi-touch interfaces.
Don’t miss his stuff at Super Deluxe including “Space Talk from Dimension Eugene”.
Super Deluxe has launched and it is awesome.
Does anyone know what’s going on here?
“Using their heartbeats, the musicians control a computer composition and visualization environment. The musical score is generated in real time by the heartbeats of the musicians. They read and play this score from a computer screen placed in front of them.”
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“A more fundamental property than the disappearance of viscosity becomes visible if superfluid is placed in a rotating container. Instead of rotating uniformly with the container, the rotating state consists of quantized vortices. That is, when the container is rotated at speed below the first critical velocity (related to the quantum numbers for the element in question) the liquid remains perfectly stationary. Once the first critical velocity is reached, the superfluid instantaneously starts spinning at the critical speed. The speed is quantized - i.e. it can only spin at certain speeds.”
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This weekend McNaught is making its closest approach to the sun, causing the comet to slightly vaprorize and brighten enough to be visible in broad daylight.
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On Tuesday, 9 Jan at 9:00 PM et (tonight), Four Eyed Monsters, an independent film with a lot of online cred, will be screened worldwide for free in Second Life.