"The use of artificial lighting is increasing and we're losing more and more of the night on a planetary scale."
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One of Three
No, surreal as it is, it's not a Dalí, and it's far removed from the 20th century. Flemish painter Hieronymus Bosch created the massive triptych "The Garden of Earthly Delights" c. 1500. The Hell scene (a portion of which is shown above) is just the right panel of the 7-by-13-ft. (220 by 390 cm) piece, the left panel of which features a much more placid environment: Adam and Eve in Eden. Both that and the center panel — depicting those earthly pleasures — are full of light; Bosch warns, though, that darkness, and all its attendant horrors, is just across the border. Packed with detail and symbolism, Madrid's Prado calls it "one of his most enigmatic works."
No, surreal as it is, it's not a Dalí, and it's far removed from the 20th century. Flemish painter Hieronymus Bosch created the massive triptych "The Garden of Earthly Delights" c. 1500. The Hell scene (a portion of which is shown above) is just the right panel of the 7-by-13-ft. (220 by 390 cm) piece, the left panel of which features a much more placid environment: Adam and Eve in Eden. Both that and the center panel — depicting those earthly pleasures — are full of light; Bosch warns, though, that darkness, and all its attendant horrors, is just across the border. Packed with detail and symbolism, Madrid's Prado calls it "one of his most enigmatic works."
Leader at NASA was an authority on planetary sciences
(By Matt Schudel, The Washington Post)
Carl Sagan (1934-1996): scientist who brought planetary astronomy to the masses; also, mathematician/astronomer Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)
We are conscious of our duty as fulfillers - at the same time we are faced with the unavoidable task of critical communication within a world which is empty and is not less full of injustices, punishments and sufferings because it is empty - and we feel also the responsibility for reawakening the old dreams which sleep in statues of stone in the ruined ancient monuments, in the wide-stretching silence in planetary plains, in dense primeval forests, in rivers which roar like thunder.
Nine Lives
In Heavenly Puss, a 1949 Tom and Jerry short, Tom demonstrates his feline ability to survive death — well in his dreams, at least. Tom imagines that he is squashed to death by a piano in one of his epic fights with little Jerry. When he reaches heaven's gate, he is refused entry because of his cruelty to his rodent enemy. In order to be admitted to heaven, he must get Jerry to sign a certificate of forgiveness. Jerry, of course, is dismissive and toys with Tom, but eventually signs to keep bulldog devil Spike from snatching Tom away to hell. It's too late, though, and the stairs to heaven disappear. Luckily, Tom wakes up.
In Heavenly Puss, a 1949 Tom and Jerry short, Tom demonstrates his feline ability to survive death — well in his dreams, at least. Tom imagines that he is squashed to death by a piano in one of his epic fights with little Jerry. When he reaches heaven's gate, he is refused entry because of his cruelty to his rodent enemy. In order to be admitted to heaven, he must get Jerry to sign a certificate of forgiveness. Jerry, of course, is dismissive and toys with Tom, but eventually signs to keep bulldog devil Spike from snatching Tom away to hell. It's too late, though, and the stairs to heaven disappear. Luckily, Tom wakes up.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2065275,00.html#ixzz1Jf3PtEmQ
After Clashes, Thai Police Let Protesters Roam
By THOMAS FULLER
Protesters who entered a police compound posed for photos with police
officers, as the mood on the streets of Bangkok turned from tense to
placid.
For
almost all its history, planetary science could study only the eight
planets that make up the local solar system. But the boom in exoplanet
research over the past decade or so has furnished the field with a
wealth of data from elsewhere in the galaxy. Much of this has come from a
specially designed space telescope called Kepler http://econ.st/1cHqYT9
Video:
Profiles in Science | The Planet Hunter
Geoffrey Marcy of the University of California, Berkeley, has
discovered scores of alien worlds, so-called exoplanets circling distant
stars.
exoplanet
Pronunciation: /ˈɛksəʊplanɪt/
noun
triptych
(trĭp'tĭk)
n.
- A work consisting of three painted or carved panels that are hinged together.
- A hinged writing tablet consisting of three leaves, used in ancient Rome.
[From Greek triptukhos, threefold : tri-, tri- + ptux, ptukh-, fold.]
By DAVE ITZKOFF
Suggested sci-fi reading for presidential contenders.
plan·e·tar·y (plăn'ĭ-tĕr'ē)
adj.
- Of, relating to, or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets.
- Of or relating to the earth; terrestrial or earthly: measured the planetary tilt in degrees.
- Of or affecting the entire world; global: a planetary consensus.
- Wandering; erratic: a planetary life.
- Being or relating to a gear train consisting of a central gear with an internal ring gear and one or more pinions.
[形]
1 惑星［遊星］の（ような）
the planetary system
太陽系.
太陽系.
2 放浪する
a planetary vagabond
さまよい歩く放浪者.
さまよい歩く放浪者.
3 地球（上）の；世界的な；現世［俗世］の.
4 《機械》〈歯車が〉遊星連動装置の.
5 《占星術》運星の影響を受ける.
━━[名]《機械》遊星連動装置.
...of both spatial and temporal scales, efforts have been made to group various phenomena into scale classes. The class describing the largest and longest-lived of these phenomena is known as the planetary scale. Such phenomena are typically a few thousand kilometres in size and have lifetimes ranging from several days to several weeks. Examples of planetary-scale phenomena include the...
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