ANDRE PREVIN
It’s hard to believe that one man could be so heavy - - improviser, conductor, classical soloist, composer…..
Jeremy Szopinski, “The Thousandfold Principle #5” (2013)
Oil on paper, mounted on board
32” x 25”
Mark Thompson | on Tumblr - Idle Fingers, Unpicking Time. Oil on Canvas, 168x127 cm (2009)
Something un-urban…
Joseph Alleman - “Formation”
Paul Klee - Separation in the Evening (1922)
Silence Grows in Mexico
Last week, banners threatening the staff of the Zócalo newspaper group and signed by Z42, the street name of Zetas cartel leader Omar Trevino Morales, appeared in cities and towns around Coahuila State, Mexico. On Monday, Zócalo Saltillo published an editorial that read:
In view of the fact that there are no guarantees and no security for the practice of journalism, the Editorial Board of the Zócalo newspapers decided, as of this date, to stop publishing any information relating to organized crime….
The decision to suspend all information relating to organized crime is based on our responsibility to ensure the integrity and safety of our more than one thousand employees and their families, and our own.It is our hope that true peace will prevail in our beloved country soon.
Happy Birthday Einstein!
Some rare captures and photo collage of Albert EinsteinBorn 14 Mar 1879; died 18 Apr 1955 at age 76. German-American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Recognized in his own time as one of the most creative intellects in human history, in the first 15 years of the 20th century Einstein advanced a series of theories that proposed entirely new ways of thinking about space, time, and gravitation. His theories of relativity and gravitation were a profound advance over the old Newtonian physics and revolutionized scientific and philosophic inquiry.
Some Quotes
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
“A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it’s longer than any hour. That is relativity.”
“Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.”“My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”Resources
Books
Czerwone wierchy (by paprycjusz)
Ancient Mars could have supported primitive life
The rock powder sample contained sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon along with some clay minerals, suggesting water of some sort.
ten things you should know about the federal reserve
A World War II poster, advocating very modern-sounding food consumption patterns to support the war effort by conserving food and energy
Mars Rover Opportunity Finds ‘Rich’ Clay Deposits: “A new study looks at chemicals spotted by a Mars-orbiting spacecraft to conclude that Endeavour Crater, which Opportunity reached in August 2011 after a 1,000-plus day, 13-mile trek across the plains of Meridian, is flush with a variety of clays, which on Earth, form in the presence of water.”
“You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.”
Mega-array reveals birthplace of giant stars
The Atacama ALMA observatory, an array of radio telescopes peering through the thin atmosphere high on a Chilean plateau, has used its unprecedented sensitivity to peer into the dense center of our galaxy to observe the earliest moments of giant star creation: the “embryos” of dense gas that they hope will explain how our universe’s first stellar giants were formed.
This dense gas has been impenetrable to previous telescopes, and even with only half of its antennas finished, Atacama is beginning to peer inside to see the origin of the giant stars whose explosions seeded the elements of the early universe.
This is where early star stuff becomes star stuff before it later becomes more star stuff to make our stars and stuff.
I can’t wait to see what else ALMA finds.
(via Nature News)
(by aremac)
