Eclectic Perambulations in the Noosphere
Scientists have produced what they say is the first complete map of how the ice moves across Antarctica.
Built from images acquired by radar satellites, the visualisation details all the great glaciers and the smaller ice streams that feed them.
"Color remains a mystery to me. I can’t say that any specific color triggers any specific emotions. My interest in colors is based more in color interaction than specific colors. Yellow and black are especially important though.
Music is at the center of my artistic life. As a musician I have always been fascinated by the harmony and the physics of sound; in a sense defining music as waveforms, waveforms whose properties and proportions define our scales, from which we write our melodies, in which we weave our emotions and memories into songs.
I would have to say that the relationship between Science and Nature in my work is based in observation of both internal and external worlds. The process in which I work is based in observation, measurement and experimentation. In a sense it is very similar to the Scientific Method."
Photographer Miroslaw Swietek
"One of the first pictures of dragonflies in drops of dew I did. The beginning of my adventure with photography."
Ker Than for National Geographic News
"In an apparent flash of insight, a young Asian elephant in a zoo turned a plastic cube into a stool—and a tool—a new study says.
That eureka moment is the first evidence that pachyderms can run problem-solving scenarios in their heads, then mentally map out an effective solution, and finally, put the plan into action, researchers say."
