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“In Event Of Moon Disaster”: Memorium For Neil & Buzz
by Michelle Lovegrove Thomson on February 15, 2012
Take a moment to read this memo, delightfully sourced from the “American Originals” exhibition by The National Archives. Written by President Nixon’s speechwriter William Safire, it addresses the possiblity that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin would be killed or marooned during their mission, and aims to narrativize their deaths in tones of national pride, humanity’s undeniable desire for exploration, and honour, as would be expected.
They will be
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No Relection in Towers of Glass
by Malcolm Parker on February 5, 2012
I am spending a month working in Hong Kong. I lived here for a year before moving to the mainland and wasn’t looking forward to being back for an extended time. Hong Kong is unlike any other city I’ve been too and it can be both energising and infuriating. It was stunning and exhilarating when I first arrived for a visit: the towers, the lights, the harbour, the beautiful people …
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What Went Right On The Costa Concordia
by Fawnda Mithrush on January 30, 2012
A crew member from another cruise line offers thoughts on abandoning ship
Whether cruise ships are truly safe may be moot at this point, but most of those working in the industry would still defend its record — and, particularly, the records of those employed on the Costa Concordia as it sank off the coast of Italy on January 13th. Considering the international vilification of Concordia’s Captain, and the …
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Abraj – The Two Towers of Dubai: Video
by Tony Longworth on January 28, 2012
A beautiful time-lapse video of the towers of Dubai, by photographer Phillip Bloom. The video was commissioned by Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai. Check out the behind the scenes action, at Bloom’s website.
Abraj: The two towers of Dubai from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.…
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Growth Measured in Distance
by Malcolm Parker on January 16, 2012
Days before Chinese New Year, the city is getting quieter as the annual exodus gets underway. At Spring Festival, the urban migration of the decades shows its size as cities empty. This immense storm of movement is a hurricane; in the centres of the city it shows itself in the silence and stillness as the people drain away.
It’s the same every year. Try as it might, and it tries …
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Everything but the Table: Eating in GZ, the noodle edition
by Malcolm Parker on January 12, 2012
My favourite Chinese restaurant back in Canada was The Islam Noodle House, which was on the edges of the small Chinatown of my home city. It was run by an older Chinese man with a long white beard, who spoke little English if any and was always happy and welcoming. He made his own noodles, pulling the dough, stretching it out and slamming it down to the counter. After a …
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Music to Ride By: M83
by Malcolm Parker on January 9, 2012
In the cold night rain I rode home listening to M83’s coruscating Before the Dawn Heals Us, a soundtrack to a David Lynch or Michael Mann movie. I thought of Drive, with its To Live and Die in LA bubblegum title and Moroder euro-pudding soundtrack, and I wondered why LA, a city of perpetual summer light, has so many great crime films.
Maybe it’s the city’s surface-ness, the …
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Asia in the Twenty First Century #8
by Marc J Chalifoux on January 4, 2012
These images reveal just a sample of the charismatic and exotic cuisine, which you could only find in places like mainland China or Taiwan. These are delicacies (I use the word sincerely here) that have so much personality you’d swear they were looking at you.
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Asia in the Twenty First Century #7
by Marc J Chalifoux on December 4, 2011
The Deconstruction of Fengdu (豐都), China(中國) 2002
Fengdu is a city located on the banks of the Yangtze River (長江) in the Sichuan Province of China. Known as China’s ghost city from the preponderance of statues and temples devoted to the dead or supernatural entities, the main urban centre has, as the waters of the Yangtze rise (from flooding from the Three Gorges hydroelectric project), become a ghost city in …
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NASA’s movie of Asteroid 2005 YU55 (or as I call it, Yuss).
by Michelle Lovegrove Thomson on November 17, 2011
The images of Asteroid 2005 YU55 were generated from data collected with the 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California. They are the highest-resolution images ever generated by radar of a near-Earth object.
The movie does not appear to be embeddable, so please point your browser here to watch the video and read more about the process.
Also:
NASA IS RECRUITING ASTRONAUTS!
If you are a US citizen, …
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Asia in the Twenty First Century #6
by Marc J Chalifoux on November 16, 2011
An Opinion, Cochin, India, 2003
Morning Puja, Varanasi, India, 2003
A Headline, Mumbai, India, 2003…
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