"The Island" (Ostrov) - this Soviet-era animation from 1973 has a lot to say about our consumerist society.... Made by the talented director Fyodor Khitruk, it won the Golden Palm in Cannes (good stuff starts around 1:30 mark)
And by the way, did possibility of Sarah Palin becoming a president spook you out? Well, it was worse in the 50s:
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Science. Get inspired by it.
Even though one 30-ton transformer failed and put LHC out of action till the second part of next year, let's not forget the glamour and grandeur of the project, and keep interest piqued by pictures like this:
Semiconductor trackers for ATLAS (a big part of LHC) - image via, copyright Peter Ginter, NIKHEF
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Actually, the photo from CERN is a front view of the semiconductor trackers for ATLAS, one of the four enormous detectors for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, built at NIKHEF, The Netherlands. It was taken by Peter Ginter and is copyright NIKHEF. Here's the original url.
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Isn't the Outer Banks Ocean Front house the one from "Nights in Rodanthe?"
What's unorthodox about a dogcart?
The picture of the women on the pig is definetly from Norway as the sign in the background says: "Real goat cheese for sale" :)
...and is it just me or is that pig exceptionally tall compared to its length?
The photo of the woman and the pig is taken in 1932 in Lærdal, Norway. It's the most selling postcard in Norway of all time :)
Actually, the photo from CERN is a front view of the semiconductor trackers for ATLAS, one of the four enormous detectors for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, built at NIKHEF, The Netherlands. It was taken by Peter Ginter and is copyright NIKHEF. Here's the original url.
Thank you Kees, credits updated.
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