T-38 Flyover for Day of Remembrance
NASA pilots perform the "Missing Man" formation during a T-38 flyover at Johnson Space Center in Houston on Jan. 26 to commemorate the men and women lost in the agency's space exploration program.
Europe to pick up tab for boosting firewall: Reuters Breakingviews
Despite Geman resistance, Europe will end up with by far the biggest bill for increasing its war chest say Reuters Breakingviews.
Reuters Breakingviews: Commentary on Today's News
Jan. 27 - Reuters Breakingviews at the World Economic Forum in Davos looks at what the ECB can do to help Greece.
Breakingviews: Connecticut in Davos
Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy talks to Rob Cox about balancing budgets and growing jobs.
The Exchange: Davos Edition with Brian Moynihan
B of A CEO Brian Moynihan talks to Rob Cox in Davos about regulation and getting his bank in fighting trim.
Antony and the Johnsons "Swanlights" at Radio City Music Hall
Antony Hegarty in conversation with MoMA PS1 Director Klaus Biesenbach
Antony and the Johnsons: Swanlights with Symphony Orchestra, commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art and performed at Radio City Music Hall, January 26, 2012.
Video of "Swanlights" courtesy of the artist. Directed by Sara Hegarty
Filmed by Calvin Robertson, Mad Matthewz, and Andrew J. Reardon. Special thanks to Rose Brand
© 2012 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Special thanks to Rose Brand
Rachel Kneebone: Regarding Rodin
Rachel Kneebone: Regarding Rodin features fifteen iconic works by nineteenth-century French master Auguste Rodin, selected from the Museum's collection by British artist Rachel Kneebone and shown alongside eight of her own large-scale porcelain sculptures. The exhibition, Kneebone's first major museum presentation, will highlight the artists' shared interest in the representation of mourning, ecstasy, death, and vitality in figurative sculpture. The pairing also offers a visual comparison of the
Uneasy Dreams: The Life of Mr Pickwick (1970) - extract
For more on the BFI's Dickens on Screen project go to http://www.bfi.org.uk/dickens
This short impressionistic film by Jeremy Marre, a director better known for making music documentaries, takes 'The Pickwick Papers' by Charles Dickens as its starting point and uses archival film, Georgian cartoons and dramatised sequences to illustrate key scenes from Pickwick's life. Lightly humorous in the Dickens tradition, it is also quietly sad and self-reflexive too. (William Fowler)
You can see the com
The Sun lets fly a pulsing X-class flare
Blog post with LOTS more info: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/01/28/the-suns-still-blasting-out-flares-big-ones/
On January 27, 2012, the Sun erupted in the biggest flare of the year so far, an X2-class. It was twice the power of the flare earlier in the week, but on the edge of the Sun so it wasn't aimed at us. We're in no danger, but it makes for a pretty awesome light show.
Credit: NASA/SDO/helioviewer.org
Chefs@Google: Amanda Hesser, "Food52"
Amanda Hesser has designed a seventeenth-century-style herb garden at a French chateau, developed the Twitter app Plodt, and appeared in Julie & Julia, playing herself. Gourmet named her one of 50 most influential women in food. As a longtime staffer at the New York Times, Hesser wrote more than 750 stories, created the columns Food Diary and Recipe Redux, and was the food editor at the Times Magazine, where she launched the style magazine T Living. She has written the award-winning books Cookin
The Quiet People: A Memoir
Kelle Groom reads from a manuscript in progress, which is a memoir incorporating private and public history in a lyrically structured narrative that examines contemporary concerns through the lens of the author's Finnish, Irish, and Wampanoag ancestors in Massachusetts. The title references ancestors who left little written record, which challenges Groom to make their lives visible and discover how her life connects to their earlier struggles.
Speaker Biography: Kelle Groom is a poet and author
Literary Birthday Celebration: Louisa May Alcott
Authors Jo Ann Beard and Maud Casey celebrate the birthday of American author Louisa May Alcott by reading selections from her work and discussing her influence on their own writing.
Speaker Biography: Jo Ann Beard is an essayist and instructor at Sarah Lawrence College.
Speaker Biography: Maud Casey is an associate professor of English and teaches in the MFA creative writing Program at the University of Maryland.
For captions, transcript, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today
Dance for a Chicken: The Cajun Mardi Gras
Cajun filmmaker Pat Mire gives us an inside look at the colorful, rural Cajun Mardi Gras. Every year before Lent begins, processions of masked and costumed revelers, often on horseback, go from house to house gathering ingredients for communal gumbos in communities across rural southwest Louisiana. The often-unruly participants in this ancient tradition play as beggars, fools, and thieves as they raid farmsteads and perform in exchange for charity or, in other words, "dance for a chicken."
Great Decisions- "Promoting Democracy"
"Promoting Democracy" by Dr. Sherwood J. McGinnis, U.S. Army War College, is part of the 2012 Great Decisions lecture series. The U.S. has had a history of advancing and supporting democracy around the world. What place does democracy promotion have in U.S. foreign policy today? With a choice of tools ranging from economic aid to military force, what are the appropriate yet effective methods that the U.S. should use to promote democracy.
Action recognition from video: some recent results (video)
While recognition in still images has received a lot of attention over the past years, recognition in videos is just emerging. In this talk I will present some recent results.
Bags of features have demonstrated good performance for action recognition in videos. We briefly review the underlying principles and introduce trajectory-based video features, which have shown to outperform the state of the art. These features are obtained by dense point sampling in each frame and tracking th
Les cellules souches et le clonage thérapeutique - Michel Fontes (video)
Une conférence de l'UTLS au Lycée
Les cellules souches et le clonage thérapeutique par Michel Fontes
Lycée technique Marie Curie (13 Marseille)
Les cellules souches et le clonage thérapeutique - Michel Fontes (audio)
Une conférence de l'UTLS au Lycée
Les cellules souches et le clonage thérapeutique par Michel Fontes
Lycée technique Marie Curie (13 Marseille)
La Cité Idéale dans l’ancien stoïcisme : un espoir, un mythe ? (video)
Le stoïcisme apparaît au début de l'époque hellénistique, à un moment où les Grecs, démoralisés, voient s'effondrer leur civilisation et avec elle les valeurs de la cité.
En quête d’un Etat porteur de progrès qui permette un certain espoir, les stoïciens rejettent le réel de l’histoire et cherchent dans l’idéologie réformiste, révolutionnaire, et l’utopie, le moyen de renverser l’ordre établi.
Mais quels sont les principes de cette cité idé
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