Friday, September 18, 2009

Paint, Architecture and Cinema

A portrait of the German architect Walter Grop...
A portrait of the German architect Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus school of architecture. The photo is taken by Louis Held c. 1919, probably in Waimar, just after foundation of Bauhaus. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)


Art Review

&Kandinsky&

The Angel in the Architecture

By ROBERTA SMITH

Published: September 18, 2009

A sleek Kandinsky retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum offers an unencumbered view of his painting career.
 
In all, this show is the perfect cap to the Guggenheim’s yearlong birthday celebration of Wright’s building, which opened 50 years ago on Oct. 21.




... anonymous shots of things you look at every day but don’t see, used as transitions in movies.




... a clique to represent a widespread phenomenon, sometimes collected under the scary chapter heading “relational aesthetics.”


he was teaching at the Bauhaus ...American art schools have also rediscovered the Bauhaus school. The Master Craftsman Program at Florida State University bases its artistic philosophy on Bauhaus theory and practice.

Titanium is covering Museum, and is imported from USSR. Or Russia ?







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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Recovery Picks Up in China as U.S. Economy Remains Ailing

"“So often China and the U.S. are mixed together as being in the same situation, and that is totally wrong,” said Xu Xiaonian, an economist in Beijing with the China Europe International Business School.

That does not mean the two nations are not connected, of course. China’s rebound in growth may slow if the American economy does not pick up. China needs the United States to buy its goods, and the United States needs China to continue to buy its debt.

This mutual dependence makes it harder for either country to let the current dispute over Chinese tires and American chicken and auto parts to grow into a trade war.

But with more economic planning than the United States, China has been able to disburse its stimulus much faster, turning it into new rail lines and highways."
For the first time economic planning from communist countries is positive !
Current crisis appear for me as a price for China development.


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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Second Honeymoon

English: Pony Express Postmark: The first east...
English: Pony Express Postmark: The first eastbound Pony Express trip left San Francisco on April 3, 1860 and arrived ten days later in St. Joseph, Missouri. From St. Joseph, letters were placed in the U.S. mails for delivery to eastern destinations. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)







Starting a continental trip from Philadelphia, Pa to San Francisco, Ca। Bobby is with me। My Volvo have problems, Volvo send wrong parts and have problems, FedEx Air have some problems. For the last decades I do not have time for Bobby and now, stuck in Elko I have.

Lets see something special:
Ounce upon the time Mr. Ford have created a replacement for Pony Express:












Useful for working class, cheap using mass production rules. That's Detroit opinion...
Chicago have an another
And my generation, Hippie, Make Love Not War another:

Today:
Tire tariffs provoke China threat to U.S. auto parts, chicken ...
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Monday, April 06, 2009

Digital twist on Pavlov

The phone rings and we pay

Technology

Micro-Billing, Byte by Byte, Suits the World of Cellphones

By MATT RICHTEL and BOB TEDESCHI

Published: April 6, 2009

The digital marketplace has strained many in the media realm, but one industry has thrived: the phone companies, which make sure not to give away entertainment.

It is a curious equation: pay for stuff on a tiny, low-resolution screen while getting some of the very same games and video free on a fancy widescreen monitor.
...the designers of the Internet envisioned it as utopian and open — two words rarely used to describe the phone experience
One example of the stark difference between the phone and the computer is the concept of micropayments. Newspapers and other content producers have examined the method — getting people to pay for content with a nickel here and a dime there — as a possible answer to their revenue problems on the Web.

“It’s like a slot machine.”
Phone is main business tool. And interconected with computers using securized communications tools is keyboard for that computer two distinct way. Recording vocal messages is same as fingerprints, message have signature.
Slot machine was in great depresion era main tool for "gocery boys pockets"
What should we do?
How about nothing? Capitalism is a "perennial gale of creative destruction" (Joseph Schumpeter)। Industries come and go.
If General Motors goes under, there will still be cars. And if the New York Times disappears, there will still be news.
And Pavlov's

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Friday, April 03, 2009

The 237th ACS National Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, March 22-26, 2009

Dispute
“CHEMISTS vs PHYSICISTS”, and it seems that the controversy on cold fusion will be finally resolved, but not by the physicists.
The new duel chemists vs physicists has ideological origin. The physicits keep their loyalty to Quantum Mechanics, because they dont accept to change their interpretation on the zitterbewegung, since such a changing requires a very deep modification in the foundations of Modern Physics (the zbw cannot be considered as a helical trajetory in Quantum Field Theory, which is the successor of Quantum Mechanics).

Unlike, the chemists keep their loyalty to the scientific method, according to which any experiment cannot be neglected only because it defies the principles of a theory, as happens now in this duel between Quantum Mechanics and cold fusion.

Nanotehology aplied at electrolysys proceses, very new, in the WWII era batle for deuterium (heawy water) was in the same area.

It has been 14 years since two little-known electrochemists announced, at an infamous news conference on March 23, 1989, what sounded like the biggest physics breakthrough since Enrico Fermi produced a nuclear chain reaction on a squash court in Chicago. Using a tabletop setup, Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann, of the University of Utah, said they had induced deuterium nuclei to fuse inside metal electrodes, producing measurable quantities of heat. (Deuterium, a.k.a. heavy hydrogen, has one proton and one neutron in its nucleus.)
"If you 'know' that cold fusion is impossible, then you don't have to pay attention to these results," says Prof. Hagelstein, an award-winning DOE physicist before being ostracized for his work in the theory of cold fusion. "The initial criticism was that people needed to do the [heat measurements] right, but now that some groups have spent millions of dollars doing just that, the critics still won't read the papers."

I, for one, would love to hear smart physicists explain why the excess heat from the deuterium-filled palladium reflects not nuclear fusion but the release of mechanical energy -- sort of like letting go of a stretched spring. I'd love to see a smart critique of a 2002 paper by Japanese scientists, published in a Japanese physics journal that few American scientists saw, describing (shades of medieval alchemists) the transmutation of elements through cold fusion.

What these claims need is critical scrutiny by skeptics. That's how science normally functions. But in cold fusion, it isn't. And that's the worst pathology of all.

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Thursday, April 02, 2009

Lithium Ion Batteries

BROWNSTOWN TOWNSHIP, MI - AUGUST 13: An infoma...Image by Getty Images via Daylife
Fabricating Genetically Engineered High-Power Lithium Ion Batteries Using Multiple Virus Genes
These authors contributed equally to this work.




Development of materials that deliver more energy at high charge/discharge rates is important for high power applications, including portable electronic devices and hybrid electric vehicles. Reducing materials dimensions for lithium ion batteries can boost Li+ ion and electron transfer in nanostructured electrodes. We developed a strategy for attaching electrochemically active materials to conducting carbon nanotubes networks through biological molecular recognition
Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1171541



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Monday, March 30, 2009

California

...you can hear and see one of the most vital relationships in modern American agriculture: the droning dance of honey bees feasting on almond pollen....
My personal preferences are related to cherry tree blossom. 


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