Monthly Archives: September 2012

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What you may need to know.

1. Remember Tobey Maguire? He used to be Spider-Man.

2. Maguire is suffering from a spot of DiCaprio Syndrome, whereupon the adjustment to adult roles is hindered by the fact that the sufferer still looks like a teenager.

3. Maguire hasn’t been seen much of late, but he’s in The Great Gatsby next summer, and he’s planning to play Bobby Fischer.

4. The Details is a black comedy. How black? Pretty black.

5. Bonus points for original African American president Dennis Haysbert (from 24), Ray Liotta, and a killer last shot. How did they do that?

Release Date: November (US)

Thanks Barry H

Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly series is “one of the greatest sequences of Australian paintings” of the 20th century and belonged to “the company of twentieth-century personages which includes Picasso’s minotaur,Chirico’s mannequins, Ernst’s birdmen, Bacon’s popes and Giacometti’s walking man”.

 

The National Gallery of Australia (NGA) is sending its Sidney Nolan Ned Kelly Series to a museum in Dublin.
The 26 works from the series will be loaned to the Irish Museum of Modern Art for exhibition from November to January.
The famous paintings tell the story of Ned Kelly and his gang from the shooting of police constables at Stringybark Creek, to the siege of the Glenrowan hotel and the trial which ended in a hanging sentence for Kelly.

 

Nolan’s Ned Kelly off to Ireland (ABC.au)

Sidney Nolan (National Gallery of Australia)

Thanks Mark Geary


As part of their research into reducing the dose and increasing the effectiveness of pharmaceuticals, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory use a witch trumpet acoustic levitator – originally developed for NASA to summon the Dark Lord simulate microgravity conditions.

The acoustic levitator uses two small speakers to generate sound waves at frequencies slightly above the audible range – roughly 22 kilohertz.When the top and bottom speakers are precisely aligned, they create two sets of sound waves that perfectly interfere with each other, setting up a phenomenon known as a standing wave.

At certain points along a standing wave, known as nodes, there is no net transfer of energy at all. Because the acoustic pressure from the sound waves is sufficient to cancel the effect of gravity, light objects are able to levitate when placed at the nodes.

No magic show: Real-world levitation to inspire better pharmaceuticals (Argonne)

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