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Retreat Hundredpics Challenge
Day 13
Submitted to Flickr Monthly Scavenger Hunt for December2008 under I want it all
Ah, Science fiction crime and mystery... that popular genre
The National Park Service provided funding for 24 school buses to bring students from Los Angeles to the event.
Near the end of the summer, I was asked by the publishers of Popular Science magazine to produce a visualization piece that explored the archive of their publication. PopSci has a history that spans almost 140 years, so I knew there would be plenty of material to draw from. Working with Mark Hansen, I ended up making a graphic that showed how different technical and cultural terms have come in and out of use in the magazine since it's inception.
Near the end of the summer, I was asked by the publishers of Popular Science magazine to produce a visualization piece that explored the archive of their publication. PopSci has a history that spans almost 140 years, so I knew there would be plenty of material to draw from. Working with Mark Hansen, I ended up making a graphic that showed how different technical and cultural terms have come in and out of use in the magazine since it's inception.
Advertisement for Erson's Glycerine Cough Mixture, the pharmaceutical brain child of William Ledger Erson who operated as a pharmacist or druggist from 39 Henry Street, Dublin.
Wonder if it was as effective as Mr Erson made out?
I posted this advert on our NLI Facebook page some time ago, and got fantastic information from Celestine Rafferty about the Erson family:
"William Ledger Erson, b. St Michael's parish, Limerick, 30 October 1827, son of Paul Erson, merchant, and wife Anne. Had at least two brothers, George Robert, b. 24 Nov. 1829 and Charles, b. 9 Apr, 1836. Possibly other siblings.
Listed in 1862 as 'dentist, chemist, druggist' at 39 Henry Street, Dublin, with a residence at Mount Vernon, Dollymount. William married a widow, Bessie Martha Avery, née Close, daughter of Edward Close, a clerk in Holy Orders, in St Peter's parish, Dublin, 26th January 1850. William's brother, George Robert was one of the witnesses. They had at least two sons: Paul Close Erson, born December 1850 who died in November 1854, and William Robert Close, born 29 March 1857. He may be the William Robert Erson, physician and surgeon, living in Yorkshire in 1881. In 1899 Dr William Robert sailed, with 2 other doctors, on board the "Cintra" to Australia. He settled in a mining town in Western Australia and died there in 1904. Buried in Coolgardie Cemetery. ... William's mother's name was Ledger, hence his middle name. Oh, and they lived at Abbey Lodge, Askeaton. ... I found another son, Edward George Ledger Erson, b. 1852. Another doctor. Was tried in Australia c 1912/13 for being part of a scam to defraud a Maternity Benefits scheme. Died 1922."
MKSeery also did some investigating and found out that "the other part of the building at 39 Henry Street was occupied by J.M. O'Callaghan, "Fancy Baker". So you rotted your teeth on the cakes and then went into old William for the dental work and digestion aids."
This item features in our Particles of the Past exhibition, a part of Dublin City of Science, 2012.
Date: Circa 1862
NLI Ref.: Trade cards/1
Reproduction rights owned by the National Library of Ireland
I've recently joined the Council of Science Editors, and just got my first back issues of the journal a few days ago. Woo hoo!
(I've also joined the European Association of Science Editors, but it'll take a while longer to get my back issues.)
Using Arduino to get the cost of probeware down (for science education).
Vernier's cheapest interface is $61 and handles one sensor: www.vernier.com/mbl
Arduino Uno is $30 and has 6 analog inputs: www.sparkfun.com/products/9950
Our goal is to interoperate with this curriculum: www.concord.org/activities/research-focus/probeware
Science Faculty members including Brenda Wiens, Ramon Selove, Kathy Ware, Jim Crowley, Rob and Ann Simpson, Elisabeth Dingess, Jan McLaughlin, Brian Wilcox, Ernie Grisdale, Raymond Rogers, Sam Dillender, Butch Austin, Jeff Hollar, Ebrahim Abdurahiman, and Donna Burge
Frankly, its embarrassing just how many takes it took me to get this shot. I originally wanted the gyroscope spinning on top of the books, but it kept spinning off by the time I'd lined up the camera and the flash. It also took an age to get the angle of the flash correct - it was attached to the hotshoe on the camera via a cable - no pop up flash on the 5DIII to fire a slave :(
I can't say I'm delighted with this, but after the effort that went into taking it, there's no way its not getting posted.
Our teachers received professional development from trainers that came to us from the Carnegie Science Museum in Pittsburgh. The session had "hands on"activities and was quite interesting.
I was really impressed with their van and would love to get the chance to drive it around!!
100 Pictures in 2010 Project #38 Transportation
Park rangers explained the importance of native plants and gave free samples to these future gardeners.
For over a decade, CIAT has tested agronomic and soil management practices in Western Kenya. From minimum tillage to integrated soil fertility management, these trials are the most comprehensive picture of tropical soil health that we have in Kenya. They show-case changes in soil fertility and health, which take time to develop, hence the importance of these long-term trails. CIAT’s “Climate-smart soil protection and rehabilitation in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, India and Kenya” project is implemented in collaboration with the Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO); GOPA and implementing partners including PAFID, Welthungerhilfe and WOCAT - University of Bern. It is supported by the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). For more information, visit: blog.ciat.cgiar.org/sink-it-or-lose-it-the-carbon-trade-off/
Credit: ©2016CIAT/GeorginaSmith
Please credit accordingly and leave a comment when you use a CIAT photo.
For more info: ciat-comunicaciones@cgiar.org
Airspeed AS57 Ambassador aka Elizabethan in BEA service. First flight 10 July 1947. Gained notoriety on 6 Feb 1958 with the crash of BEA Flt 609 coming from Belgrade to London via Munich. The aircraft, G-ALZU 'Lord Burghley' was slowed down on takeoff by snow and slush and crashed shortly after. 23 passengers died, 8 of them ManU players. Some recovered from their injuries to play again, but most not. Harry Gregg, goalkeeper, rescued a pregnant woman and her daughter from the wreckage. He met all three later. Manager Matt Busby recovered after receiving last rites twice, and returned to the club.
Class 442 EMU passes Berlin-Adlershof on the re-opened line from Ostkreuz to Adlershof. The former Academy of Science of the GDR was here, obviously many institutions kept on researching. A Hollywood type of sign was erected, during summer with leafs on the trees a few letters are missing.
Hamsterbacke der DB als RB Eberswalde - Senftenberg am S-Bhf. Berlin-Adlershof
We stayed at the City of Arts and Sciences from late afternoon till night time. There was a beautiful blue cast through twilight and then, about 8.00pm the lights came on. I forgot the tripod so it was a case of having a steady hand. A bit of noise in there but I'm glad I hung around - we had a few glasses of wine as well needless to say.
We decided to go for a city break rather than sun in Tenerife again this September. Other than a few days in the North East we haven’t been away since last March and wanted a change and hopefully some sun. The problem is getting flights from the north of England to the places we want to go to. We chose Valencia as we could fly from East Midlands – which was still a pain to get to as it involved the most notorious stretch of the M1 at five in the morning. In the end we had a fairly good journey, the new Ryanair business class pre-booked scheme worked quite well and bang on time as usual. It was dull when we landed with storms forecast all week, the sky was bright grey – the kiss of death to the photography I had in mind. I was full of cold and wishing I was at work. It did rain but it was overnight on our first night and didn't affect us. There has been a drought for eleven months apparently and it rained on our first day there! The forecast storms didn't materialise in Valencia but they got it elsewhere.
You May notice discrepancies in the spelling of some Spanish words or names, this is because Valencian is used on signs, in some guide books and maps. There are two languages in common use with distinct differences. There may also be genuine mistakes - it has been known!
Over the course of a Monday to Sunday week we covered 75 miles on foot and saw most of the best of Valencia – The City of Bell Towers. The Old City covers a pretty large area in a very confusing layout. There was a lot of referring to maps – even compass readings! – a first in a city for us. The problem with photography in Valencia is that most of the famous and attractive building are closely built around, some have poor quality housing built on to them. Most photographs have to be taken from an extreme angle looking up. There are no high points as it is pan flat, there are a small number of buildings where you can pay to go up on to the roof for a better view and we went up them – more than once!
The modern buildings of The City of Arts and Sciences – ( Ciutat de Las Arts I de les Ciencies ) are what the city has more recently become famous for, with tourists arriving by the coachload all day until late at night. They must be photographed millions of times a month. We went during the day and stayed till dark one evening, I gave it my best shot but a first time visit is always a compromise between ambition and realism, time dictates that we have to move on to the next destination. I travelled with a full size tripod – another first – I forgot to take it with me to TCoAaS! so It was time to wind up the ISO, again! Needless to say I never used the tripod.
On a day when rain was forecast but it stayed fine, albeit a bit dull, we went to the Bioparc north west of the city, a zoo by another name. There are many claims made for this place, were you can appear to walk alongside some very large animals, including, elephants, lions, giraffe, rhino, gorillas and many types of monkey to name a few. It is laid out in different geographical regions and there is very little between you and the animals, in some cases there is nothing, you enter the enclosure through a double door arrangement and the monkeys are around you. It gets rave reviews and we stayed for most of the day. The animals it has to be said gave the appearance of extreme boredom and frustration and I felt quite sorry for them.
The course of The River Turia was altered after a major flood in the 50’s. The new river runs west of the city flanked by a motorway. The old river, which is massive, deep and very wide between ancient walls, I can’t imagine how it flooded, has been turned into a park that is five miles long. There is an athletics track, football pitches, cycle paths, restaurants, numerous kids parks, ponds, fountains, loads of bridges, historic and modern. At the western end closest to the sea sits The City of Arts and Sciences – in the river bed. Where it meets the sea there is Valencia’s urban Formula One racetrack finishing in the massive marina built for The Americas Cup. The race track is in use as roadways complete with fully removable street furniture, kerbs, bollards, lights, islands and crossings, everything is just sat on the surface ready to be moved.
We found the beach almost by accident, we were desperate for food after putting in a lot of miles and the afternoon was ticking by. What a beach, 100’s of metres wide and stretching as far as the eye could see with a massive promenade. The hard thing was choosing, out of the dozens of restaurants, all next door to each other, all serving traditional Paella – rabbit and chicken – as well as seafood, we don’t eat seafood and it constituted 90% of the menu in most places. Every restaurant does a fixed price dish of the day, with a few choices, three courses and a drink. Some times this was our only meal besides making the most of the continental breakfast at the hotel. We had a fair few bar stops with the local wine being cheap and pleasant it would have been a shame not to, there would have been a one woman riot – or strike!
On our final day, a Sunday, we were out of bed and down for breakfast at 7.45 as usual, the place was deserted barring a waiter. We walked out of the door at 8.30 – in to the middle of a mass road race with many thousands of runners, one of a series that take place in Valencia – apparently! We struggled to find out the distance, possibly 10km. The finish was just around the corner so off we went with the camera gear, taking photos of random runners and groups. There was a TV crew filming it and some local celebrity (I think) commentating. Next we came across some sort of wandering religious and musical event. Some sort of ritual was played out over the course of Sunday morning in various locations, it involved catholic priests and religious buildings and another film crew. The Catholic tourists and locals were filling the (many) churches for Sunday mass. Amongst all of this we had seen men walking around in Arab style dress – the ones in black looked like the ones from ISIS currently beheading people – all carrying guns. A bit disconcerting. We assumed that there had been some sort of battle enactment. We were wrong, it hadn’t happened yet. A while later, about 11.30 we could hear banging, fireworks? No it was our friends with the guns. We were caught up in total mayhem, around 60 men randomly firing muskets with some sort of blank rounds, the noise, smoke and flames from the muzzles were incredible. We were about to climb the Torres de Serranos which is where, unbeknown to us, the grand, and deafening, finale was going to be. We could feel the blast in our faces on top of the tower. Yet again there was a film camera in attendance. I couldn’t get close ups but I got a good overview and shot my first video with the 5D, my first in 5 years of owning a DLSR with the capability. I usually use my phone ( I used my phone as well). Later in the day there was a bullfight taking place, the ring was almost next to our hotel, in the end we had other things to do and gave it a miss, it was certainly a busy Sunday in the city centre, whether it’s the norm or not I don’t know.
There is a tram system in Valencia but it goes from the port area into the newer part of the city on the north side, it wouldn’t be feasible to serve the historic old city really. A quick internet search told me that there are 55,000 university students in the city, a pretty big number. I think a lot of the campus is on the north side and served by the tram although there is a massive fleet of buses as well. There is a massive, very impressive market building , with 100’s of stalls that would make a photo project on its own, beautiful on the inside and out but very difficult to get decent photos of the exterior other than detail shots owing to the closeness of other buildings and the sheer size of it. Across town, another market has been beautifully renovated and is full of bars and restaurants and a bit of a destination in its own right.
A downside was the all too typical shafting by the taxi drivers who use every trick in the book to side step the official tariffs and rob you. The taxi from the airport had a “broken” meter and on the way home we were driven 22 km instead of the nine that is the actual distance. Some of them seem to view tourists as cash cows to be robbed at all costs. I emailed the Marriot hotel as they ordered the taxi, needless to say no answer from Marriot – they’ve had their money. We didn’t get the rip off treatment in the bars etc. that we experienced in Rome, prices are very fair on most things, certainly considering the city location.
All in all we had a good trip and can highly recommend Valencia.
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Visitor Center in Greenbelt, Md. hosted a special Webb Family Science Night on Wednesday, July 25, 2012.
Participants partook in hands-on activities to see what light looks like after it passes through lenses. By putting one lens in front of another, they made a telescope. Although Webb is not a telescope that will use a lens to collect its light, participants were able to build a telescope of similar ability to that of Galileo’s.
This special Webb Family Science Night was a hands-on and inquiry-based program designed for middle school students and their families, intended to increase STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) engagement, interest, and understanding. The Webb Family Science Night was a collaboration between NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Goddard’s Office of Education. The educational materials supporting this event were donated by SPIE – the International Society for Photonics and Optics.
Image credit: Pat Izzo
The Scout family of rockets were American launch vehicles designed to place small satellites into orbit around the Earth. The Scout multistage rocket was the first (and for a long time, the only) orbital launch vehicle to be entirely composed of solid fuel stages.
The original Scout (an acronym for Solid Controlled Orbital Utility Test system) was designed in 1957 at the NACA Langley center. Scout launch vehicles were used from 1961 until 1994. To enhance reliability the development team opted to use "off the shelf" hardware, originally produced for military programs. According to the NASA fact sheet:
"... the first stage motor was a combination of the Jupiter Senior and the Navy Polaris; the second stage came from the Army MGM-29 Sergeant; and the third and fourth stage motors were designed by Langley engineers who adapted a version of the Navy Vanguard."
The first successful orbital launch of a Scout, on February 16, 1961, delivered Explorer 9, a 7-kg satellite used for atmospheric density studies, into orbit.
Today Prime Minister Theresa May visited Jodrell Bank to outline the government's modern Industrial Strategy.
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During an Arctic sunrise on board the U.S. NavyÕs attack submarine USS Pogy (SSN 647), Jay Simpkins (far left), a scientist with the Oregon State University, collects water samples, while Navy Lieutenant Junior Grade Mark Cronley (foreground) stands watch as a safety observer on boats deck.
The U.S. NavyÕs attack submarine USS Pogy (SSN 647) returned to Hawaii, on Tuesday, November 12, after a 45-day research mission to the North Pole. The second of five planned deployments through the year 2000, Pogy embarked a team of researchers led by Mr. Ray Sambrotto of Columbia University. During the several thousand mile trek, the submarine collected data on the chemical, biological, and physical properties of the Arctic Ocean, and conducted experiments in geophysics, ice mechanics, pollution detection, and other areas. For the purposes of this voyage, a portion of the submarineÕs torpedo room was converted into laboratory space. However at no time was the ship ever removed as a front-line warship. U.S. Navy Photo by PhotographerÕs Mate Second Class Steven H. Vanderwerff (Released)
The science center in Bremen, near the university. It is suppost to resemble something between a mussel and a whale (according to wikipedia), but it could also be an UFO.
Canon 1D-Mark III
Canon 17-40 L f/4
Tripod
Canon TC-80N3
Preparing to monitor long-term alpine ecology plots on Mt. Dunderberg on the Bridgeport Ranger District of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest for the Global Observation And Research In Alpine Environments (GLORIA) Project. This plot location was established in 2004 and is resurveyed every five years by agency personnel and volunteers working with the GLORIA group. Photo is looking south toward the Inyo NF and Yosemite NP. Forest Service photo by Tim Kellison.
iss072e308289 (Dec. 2, 2024) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Commander Suni Williams displays science hardware housing bacteria and yeast samples for the Rhodium Biomanufacturing 03 study that may enable the production of food and medicine in space. Williams was in the cupola, the International Space Station's "window to the world," as the orbital outpost soared 258 miles above a cloudy Pacific Ocean off the coast of Costa Rica.