event: World Science Festival Opening night
by Greg on Jun.05, 2009, under Science Event
Tickets are available for next Wednesday’s super opening mega Gala at Lincoln Center for the World Science Festival. Guests will include:
Alan Alda • Glenn Close • Harrison FordMarin Alsop • Christine Baranski • Joshua Bell • Danny Burstein
Todd Ellison • Yo-Yo Ma • James Naughton • Anna Deavere Smith
National Dance Institute • The Inspirational Voices of Abyssinian Baptist Church
Performance directed and produced by Damian WoetzelHONORING
Edward O. Wilson, explorer, poet and champion of the natural world on his 80th birthday
:Lincoln center, World science festival
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Science, media, art, movies, politics, and what else I find interesting tweeting and reading on the internet. And ITP.
Nasa's Image of the Day
Composite of a Series of Images Taken From Space Aboard the Space Station
This is a composite of a series of images photographed from a mounted camera on the Earth-orbiting International Space Station, from approximately 240 miles above Earth. Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit said of the about photographic techniques used to achieve the images: "My star trail images are made by taking a time exposure of about 10 to 15 minutes. However, with modern digital cameras, 30 seconds is about the longest exposure possible, due to electronic detector noise effectively snowing out the image. To achieve the longer exposures I do what many amateur astronomers do. I take multiple 30-second exposures, then ‘stack’ them using imaging software, thus producing the longer exposure." A total of 18 images photographed by the astronaut-monitored stationary camera were combined to create this composite. Image Credit: NASA
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