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A rtist Ok Jeong Lee’s new show, Song of the Sea, features an array of installations of fish and jellyfish made with used CDs and plastic covers that otherwise, she fears, might have found their way into a turtle’s tummy. “I read reports about whales dying because of plastic covers getting wound in their digestive tracts, and a decrease in the jellyfish population because of an imbalance in the ecosystem,” says Jeong, in a concerned voice, while taking careful steps through a jungle of junk — rolls of plastic covers, broken CDs, and bags made of discarded tent sheets — at the gallery, InKo Centre. Slowly, she mounts her works — jellyfish lamps made with crocheted plastic covers, and small and large fish made out of CDs, cut to form shiny scales — on the walls. “Back in the day, when I was a kid, we used to have fresh fish every day without worrying about the quality. Now, we have to constantly think if we are consuming polluted food,” adds the artist, who is the founder of OK … [Read more...] about Message in a fish

In the evenings, when my particular piece of Earth has turned away from the Sun, and is exposed instead to the rest of the cosmos, I sit in front of a keyboard, log on, and seek out the windows that look down at the planets and out at the stars. It's a markedly different experience from looking at reproductions on paper. What I see is closer to the source. In fact, it's indistinguishable from the source. These are images that have never registered on a negative. Like the Internet itself, they are products of a digitized era. Over the past couple of years I've been monitoring the long rectangular strips of Martian surface being beamed across the void, in a steady stream of zeroes and ones, from the umbrella-shaped high-gain antenna of the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. These pictures are so fresh that their immediacy practically crackles. Call it "chrono-clarity." That bluish wispy cloud, for example, hovering over the Hecates Tholus volcano, which rears above the pockmarked surface … [Read more...] about A Space in Time

FACTS By LOUIS N. RIDENOUR IN the early days of the war, when a landing in Africa was big stuff, there was, by the standards of the time, a good deal of air transport across the South Atlantic. The shortest route across the South Atlantic is from Natal to Dakar, but the distance between these two places is considerable. Accordingly, it was regarded as a great stroke of luck that about halfway across the ocean, and a little to the south, there was an island called Ascension. In peacetime this island was a British cable station, and had a total population of a few dozen, made up of cable company employees and their families. However, such was the importance of cutting down the dead load of gasoline carried by our aircraft crossing the South Atlantic that it was decided to build an airfield on the island, and to garrison the place with sufficient troops to take care of any Nazi attempt to capture it from the sea. Professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania, LOUIS N. … [Read more...] about Wide-Awakes Through the Windscreen

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 12 CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — It’s an increasingly familiar sight in U.S. cities and suburbs: A van pulls up to the curb. Workers wearing gloves, masks and other protective gear strap on backpack-type mechanisms with plastic hoses, similar to leaf blowers. Revving up the motors, they drench trees, bushes and even house walls with pesticides targeting an age-old menace: mosquitoes. The winged, spindly-legged bloodsuckers have long been the bane of backyard barbecues and, in tropical nations, carriers of serious disease. Now, with climate change widening the insect’s range and lengthening its prime season, more Americans are resorting to the booming industry of professional yard spraying. “If you like to be outside, it certainly makes it more pleasant not to be swatting mosquitos and worrying about all the issues,” said … [Read more...] about Backyard mosquito spraying booms, but may be too deadly

A bride has been slammed online after confessing to wanting to cancel her wedding, just a day before the big day. The woman took to popular Subreddit " Am I the A**hole " for advice on her tricky situation after her husband-to-be was left upset by her decision. According to a 2013 study by research firm The Wedding Report, around one in eight engagements don't end in marriage. Unlike many of those, which are a result of relationship problems and bust-ups, this bride-to-be's decision lies with her sister. In the post she explained that her expecting sister, who was set to be her maid of honor, had just suffered a miscarriage. The sister felt unable to participate in the celebrations, causing the bride-to-be not to want to go ahead with her wedding without her sister there. The bride-to-be said that she woke up in the morning, the day before the wedding, with texts from her sister sharing the sad news of the miscarriage. "I can only imagine the grief my sister is going … [Read more...] about Fury as bride threatens to cancel wedding day just one day before

Darius Campbell Danesh was undoubtedly British TV royalty, but the multi-talented star was also a known name in Hollywood. Over the years the Pop Idol icon, 41, rubbed shoulders with big names from the movie industry thanks to building a new life for himself over in America - with his last public sighting involving A-list actor Gerard Butler. The Scottish singer was found dead in his apartment in Minnesota on August 11, his family announced in a statement on Tuesday evening [August 17]. His cause of death remains unknown. In one of the final snaps of the late star - taken just weeks before he died - Darius could be seen enjoying a walk barefoot with the P.S I Love You actor near Gerard's Malibu home. Darius Campbell Danesh enjoyed a stroll with fellow Scot Gerard Butler just weeks before his death ( Image: Maciel-Ngre / BACKGRID) The pair looked relaxed and happy as they made their way along the Malibu shores together ( Image: Maciel-Ngre / BACKGRID) … [Read more...] about Inside Darius Campbell Danesh’s Hollywood lifestyle from A-list pals to producing films