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Cosmic Vision >Via NatGeo
A new generation of giant telescopes will carry the eye to the edge of the universe.
By Timothy Ferris
Photograph by Joe McNally
When you start stargazing with a telescope, two experiences typically ensue. First, you are astonished by the view—Saturn’s golden rings, star clusters glittering like jewelry on black velvet, galaxies aglow with gentle starlight older than the human species—and by the realization that we and our world are part of this gigantic system. Second, you soon want a bigger telescope.
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I have been recently studying for the LEED exam and I was looking at as many different sources to get familar with the material. A colleague referred me to LEED Visual. Its a great site for learning more about LEED NC. The creators of the site took the time to graphically represent all of the LEED points. For those that are studying, the site synthesizes the information about LEED NC credits into a understandable -diagrammatic format. The site allows for the reader to quickly understand the basic overview of each credit and its requirements, strategies, standards, and submitting processes. I highly recommend that you take the time to review the site.
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Imagine a database that collects thousands of nature’s secrets and makes it available for all to access. An open source of trade secrets that everyone can tap into and further develop for their use. This is possible only if thousands of researchers can contribute towards this effort and are willing to share. AskNature (sponsored by AutoDesk), is creating this very venue for individuals and groups to contribute @ www.asknature.org, Please take the time to browse through this site, I have included a few examples from the site that were uploaded by researchers. I have only spent a few minutes looking through and I have already seen the potential of this site.
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Last week, I had lunch with Marty Doscher, the Digital Design/Technology Director of Morphosis. We had a conversation about the new building (which is almost completed) for Cooper Union and its impact on NYC. I had visited their LA office last summer and got a chance to see first hand how the design process works. As most highly regarded design offices, the practice is extremely craft orientated and it shows in this building. I feel this is one of the more important buildings designed by Morphsis, mainly because it has been constructed in NYC. I have walked by the building a few times while it is being constructed, as I am sure others have, and stop to really take a long look at the building. Please take the time to read an article by Nicolai Ouroussoff via nytimes.
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Artists from Rodin to Warhol to Mark Kostabi have outsourced the construction of their work. Hilary Berseth goes them one better: He constructs basic frameworks of wire and wax, then lets teams of tiny yellow-and-black art fabricators finish the job. “I knew they were ordered and regimented,” the Pennsylvania artist says about his honeybees, which built the three otherworldly sculptures on view at Eleven Rivington. “I had an intuition that I’d be able to organize that, architecturally.”
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