Is the U.S. Ready for a Nuclear Emergency?
Nearly 1 in every 4 Americans live within 50 miles of a nuclear plant. #Time #Health&Science
Global Philanthropy Forum-2011 Annual Conference
Want to learn more about the 10th Annual Global Philanthropy Forum? Check out http://as.pn/gpf2011 and follow @chandradanine @gpforg #gpf2011
Mexico's Drug War-The Big Picture (36)
Mass graves. Dismembered corpses. Entire towns besieged. Macabre visions grow in depravity as the drug war in Mexico drags on. Since President Felipe Calderon began using the army to contain the violence four years ago, rival gangs have escalated their turf battles over smuggling routes, and 35,000 lives have been lost, half of those in just the three northern states of Chihuahua, Tamaulipas and Sinaloa. The drug criminals have expanded their shadow by intimidating police forces, using kidnapping and extortion, trafficking migrants, and even pirating oil from Mexico’s national oil company, Pemex. Of course, calling this issue “Mexico’s drug war” is inadequate. Much of the drug product is destined for the United States, and by some estimates, over $20 billion flows south annually to pay for it. Guns made in the U.S. cross the border as well. The last 16 pictures in this entry were made by Nadav Neuhaus, who was gracious enough to share them with us. Neuhaus spent two years living in Ciudad Juarez documenting the drug war. You can see more of his work by clicking on the link below. — Lane Turner (36 photos total)
Feds Want Google to Let it Monitor Operations
The U.S. Justice Department is pressing Google to let the government monitor its business operations to win approval of the company’s $700 million purchase of travel-data provider ITA Software Inc., a person familiar with the matter said.
Symposium on the State of Race in America | The Aspen Institute
Tune in to our great live stream Monday at Symposium on State of Race in America: http://as.pn/stateofrace. Join the conversation. #stateofrace
Mick Ebeling: The invention that unlocked a locked-in artist | Video on TED.com
Today’s TEDTalk: The remarkable story of a “locked-in” graffiti artist and the open-source invention that let him make art again…The nerve disease ALS left graffiti artist TEMPT paralyzed from head to toe, forced to communicate blink by blink. In a remarkable talk, entrepreneur Mick Ebeling shares how he and a team of collaborators built an invention that gave the artist the means to make art again.
Triptych by Chinese artist Zhang Xiaogang sets record
Forever Lasting Love broke the previous Chinese contemporary art record set by a Zeng Fanzhi work in 2008. Saatchi leads Chinese revolution: A three-panel oil painting by artist Zhang Xiaogang has sold for 79m Hong Kong dollars (£6.3m) - a record auction price for Chinese contemporary art. The 1988 work, Forever Lasting Love, shows half-naked figures in an arid landscape surrounded by symbols, among them an emaciated ram. It was one of 105 artworks sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong by Belgian collector Baron Guy Ullens.
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Counting down the hours til SFMOMA’s 2011 Art Auction!!!
A Plan to Dig Up the Bones of a Suspected Mona Lisa Model - NYTimes.com
Tradition holds that the da Vinci painting is a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of a Florentine cloth merchant named Francesco del Giocondo; it is believed that he commissioned it, but for some reason Leonardo did not deliver it to him. Several years ago, an amateur historian discovered a death certificate showing that Gherardini was buried at a convent in central Florence. Now the former producer, Silvano Vinceti, who runs a private organization called the National Committee for the Promotion of Historic and Cultural Heritage, has announced plans to unearth Gherardini’s remains.
Japan And Haiti: Picturing The Unimaginable : NPR
Photojournalists travel the world, using their cameras to tell stories about how we live and who we are. Their tales are often of war, famine or disease; sometimes, of triumph and joy. The disasters in Haiti one year ago and now in Japan challenge even the best photojournalists to compose a shot that helps us get a sense of the horrific scale of destruction that nature has visited upon both countries.
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Simply Beautiful Scala dei Turchi in Agrigento, Sicily, Italy: Photography Adeo Alday
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Madonna & Debi Mazar by Steven Meisel, 1991
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@thiswildidea and Maddie (Taken with Instagram at Battery Spencer)
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Fetus in an artificial womb, 1965.
See more of Fritz Goro’s mind-blowing science photos here...
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May I? May I, please?
I’m serious, though, where in Chicago may I acquire such a beautiful thing?...
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