As you now may be aware. DTCG is considered a medical diagnostic according to the FDA. I look forward working with companies who may now allow me to use their tests for medicine.
The iOS's Kindle reader app has had its first update since arriving on the iPad. Beyond UI tweaks, the 2.1 version allows iPad users to increase font sizes, while iPhone users can now search within books. The next update looks even better, however, bringing dictionary definitions and Google/Wikipedia searching. [iTunes] More »
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Gibbering Madness: Snapshots of a Bizarre Life is a very interesting site to be sure. There, Alex weaves his web of real life adventures. The entries are written in true “mystery novelist” style and Alex will have you wondering if he’s been “channeling” Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon) or Herman Melville (Moby Dick). Something says the answer is “Yes” to both.
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In 1955, Jacques-Yves Cousteau and film director Louis Malle sailed 12,000 nautical miles aboard the Calypso to film the first underwater color movie. A year later, they showed everyone a whole new world, and the exhilarating freedom of diving. More »
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For this week's Photoshop Contest, lets make the World Cup a little more interesting. I mean, it's a great sport and all, but there's nothing that can't be improved via robots, jetpacks and the like, right? More »
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Just a brief reminder that I will be waxing [sic] poetic on the wonders of medical museum this Sunday at the Coney Island Museum as part of their "Ask the Experts" series.
Full details follow; hope to see you there!
Anatomical Venuses, The Slashed Beauty, and Fetuses Dancing a Jig: A Journey into the Curious World of the Medical Museum
Date: THIS SUNDAY, June 13th
Time: 4:30 PM
Admission: $5
Location: Coney Island Museum (208 Surf Ave. Brooklyn)This afternoon's highly-illustrated lecture will introduce you to the the Medical Museum and its curious denizens, from the Anatomical Venus to the Slashed Beauty, the allegorical fetal skeleton tableau to the taxidermied bearded lady, the flayed horseman of the apocalypse to the three fetuses dancing a jig. The lecture will contextualize these artifacts by situating them within their historical context via a discussion of the history of medical modeling, a survey of the great artists of the genre, and an examination of the other death-related diversions which made up the cultural landscape at the time that these objects were originally created, collected, and exhibited.
You can find out more by clicking here and can get directions by clicking here.
Image: From the Anatomical Theatre exhibition: "Museum of Anatomical Waxes “Luigi Cattezneo” (Museo Delle Cere Anatomiche “Luigi Cattaneo”): Bologna, Italy "Iniope–conjoined twins" Wax anatomical model; Cesare Bettini, Early 19th Century
Morbid Anatomy is very pleased to present an electricity-and-the-body-on-display themed lecture and performance pairing by Torino:Margolis. Event number one, a lecture entitled "Electricity and the Body in Public Performance," will investigate over 250 years of electricity and the body in spectacular scientific performance via an illustrated historical lecture. Event number two will explore the same rich territory via a historically informed interactive performance. Hope you can make it to one or both of these amazing sounding events!
Electricity and the Body in Public Performance
An illustrated lecture by Torino:Margolis
Date: June 15, 2010
Time: 8:00 P.M.
Admission: $5
Presented by Morbid AnatomyBeginning with the first known public performance by Stephen Gray in 1729 and continuing through the present, scientists and artists have been exploring electricity and the human body for hundreds of years. The innate electrical potential of the human body, electricity as a medium of destruction and using outside electricity to manipulate the body have been served as conceptual fodder throughout this rich history. Although the collaboration between the arts and sciences may seem recent, due to its popularization in the media and 20th century art movements such as Bioart, the connection between these two groups have existed for centuries. Benjamin Margolis, MD and Jenny Torino, MS, RD current tinkerers in both worlds, will take you through the history of public performances in this arena and discuss how it relates to their own work using invasive electronics and the body.
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Torino:Margolis Performance
A performative exploration of electricity, biomedicine, and spectacle
Date: June 29, 2010
Time: 8:00 P.M.
Admission: $5
Presented by Morbid Anatomy
Tonight, join Observatory as it hosts Torino:Margolis in a three-part performance investigating the rich history of biomedicine, electricity, and spectacle. First, the audience will have the opportunity to control the movement of the performer using neuromuscular stimulation, which sends outside electricity into the performer’s muscle, forcing their muscle to contract and the performer to move involuntarily.In the second part of the performance, they will use electromyography (EMG) in a sound-based performance. EMG is a way of sensing the electricity produced naturally during muscle contraction when an individual moves voluntarily. However, when the performer is physically manipulated by another person there is no action potential generated, no signal sensed by the EMG, and no change in the sound is produced. In this way you can hear someone’s free will.
In the third portion they will add a vocal component to the EMG “rig” by manipulating sound coming from the vocal cords using neuromuscular stimulation.
Torino:Margolis will then explain the workings of the biomedical tools used in the performance and the audience will have the opportunity to ask questions.
Torino:Margolis is a performance art team that smashes through physical and psychological barriers separating one body from another using invasive electronics and biomedical tools. They explore the idea that the self is transient, elusive and modular by playing with the notion of control and free will. Their extraction of physiological processes concretizes these concepts and presents them as questions to the viewer — not to illustrate the mechanism, but to explore the experience. The team has performed nationally and internationally at New York venues such as Issue Project Room, POSTMASTERS Gallery and Exit Art, the HIVE Gallery in California, and the Bergen Kunsthall Museum in Norway. They have lectured for institutions such as SUNY Stony Brook and the School of Visual Arts. For more information please see http://www.torinomargolis.com.
You can find out more about these presentation here and here. You can get directions to Observatory--which is next door to the Morbid Anatomy Library (more on that here)--by clicking here. You can find out more about Observatory here, join our mailing list by clicking here, and join us on Facebook by clicking here.
These bastards have no shame. There is no end to their greed, all at the expense of our environment.
BP Gulf Oil Spill No Barrier to $3.8 Billion Refinery Expansion
By Joe Carroll
June 2 (Bloomberg) — BP Plc’s $3.8 billion expansion of the largest refinery in the U.S. Midwest won’t be delayed by criminal and regulatory probes into the company’s role in the largest oil spill in the country’s history.
BP is upgrading a 119-year-old refinery in Whiting, Indiana, on the southern shore of Lake Michigan to process more heavy crude from Canada’s oil sands, [tar sands] according to the London- based company’s website. The expansion will enable the plant to boost daily gasoline production by 1.7 million gallons, which at current retail prices would be worth $1.69 billion a year.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in November ordered the Indiana Department of Environmental Management to review construction and operating permits issued for the expansion in 2008.
The review, which hasn’t interrupted work on the project, isn’t taking into consideration the April 20 explosion at a BP well in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 workers and spewed millions of gallons of crude into the sea, said Rob Elstro, a spokesman for the state environmental agency.
“The Whiting permits are being evaluated independently of the spill,” Elstro said today in a telephone interview from Indianapolis. “This preceded the spill.”
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From BP’s website, a peek into the minds of some of the most greedy, destructive people on earth:
“Why is BP developing the Canadian oil sands?
BP has a clear strategy to invest to grow exploration and production profitably through a portfolio of leadership positions in the world’s most prolific hydrocarbon basins. Canada’s oil sands more than qualify, being second only to Saudi Arabia in terms of proven reserves. BP creates value through the application of technology and capability to drive performance and operating efficiency. Also, through BP’s Midwest US refineries there is a distinctive opportunity to create a balanced portfolio of upstream production and downstream conversion, which will allow BP to participate in the margin across the whole value chain.”
In other words, they want their dirty, greedy fingers into every possible money-making aspect of the Canadian tar sands.
I’m getting so angry about this oil leak I have to take some time off reading and writing about it. I can’t look at any more oil-covered wildlife. I can barely look at reporters talking about it. I am ready to start throwing things. No, it’s not happening where I live, but it feels very personal, like 9/11 initially felt very personal (until we learned more about it). This oil leak is something that is being done to all Americans. It feels like a war.
I’m extremely pissed off at BP, Transocean, Congress, at the lack of adequate government response, (No, I don’t believe that they’re doing everything they can. If they were doing everything they can the leak would be over by now. Send in the Marines) and the insane, continued calls for more offshore drilling. The officials in Louisiana would rather get their oil jobs back as soon as possible than protect the environment. They have gone stark, raving mad. Their response to the biggest environmental disaster in our history is to drill in the ocean even more. Gov. Bobby Jindal and Mary Landreau and a few others need lobotomies.**
So now, not only is British Petroleum polluting the Gulf of Mexico, the waters off of the southern United States, for probably about 60-70 years, but it plans on burning the oil it is collecting. BP is going to pollute the atmosphere enormously, while oil gushes into the ocean. If they gathered the oil, refined it and sold it to be burned later by cars or factories, would the pollution be more or less than if they just burn it up at sea?
I suppose this is good in an ironic way because it means we will reach the end of oil even sooner than before, and then we can get off of this dirty greasy crud for good. I’m curious if anyone thinks this is really a good idea or an absolutely crazy idea: Burning the oil at sea. Pollute the air now or later?
This is a recent announcement that I read this morning in passing on CSPAN. They announced it like it was no big deal. Gather up hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil from the ocean and just burn it. Hey, why not. (Personally, my reaction when I first read this was more or less incoherent and unprintable.) I’m so upset with these Billionaire Pollutors at the moment I can’t even think rationally about them, or our energy policy, or our disappointing government response to this, and the fact that BP has its own “reporters” that it quotes on its web site of propaganda.
Oh yeah, BP is deep into the Canadian tar sands too, of course. But their approach to the dirtiest, most unconscionable source of “oil” on earth is that they are doing it “responsibly”. Which by now means nothing at all. From USAToday:
“. . . . The government has estimated 600,000 to 1.2 million gallons [...]
Iron Man 2 raises important questions for the transhumanist or rather, the posthumanist. In the movie, we see the US Senate committee demanding that Tony Stark, the man behind the iron man to surrender his creation for purposes of national security. Tony Stark interestingly defends his position by stating that the fundamental definition prescribed to him is wrong since he considers the CYBORG SUIT as an advanced prosthesis ! I personally think that would probably be the first direct reference in popular multimedia culture to interconnect the "prosthesis" and the "Cyborg".
Then what I also enjoyed watching was the incredible Minority report style hand gestured displays becoming three dimensional with those nifty sound effects, when Tony throws out old ideas into a basket of all things !!! It's really incredible considering that Microsoft's surface technology is now almost two years since it's preliminary launch in 2008 !Now even Tony's antics in Iron Man 2 can best be described as nearly futuristic because just around the corner, you have several examples such as Intel's 3d screen where 3d images are rendered thanks to hyperthreading in real time !
In the movie "GAMER".. users control real human beings as computer game characters. This concept is already here in the form of the latest revolution or rather a revelation in the form of Project Natal, the super awesome human interface powered video games which has been around for some time and keeps getting better.
I find it increasingly irking that the "Cyborg" concept as a lifestyle has really kicked off nicely in recent times in direct proportion to the predictions or rather parallel universes in movies and other forms of mass culture. The reason is because of the lower importance being placed on finding cheaper technologically based prosthesis for land mine victims and improving research on
cheaper pacemakers ! Now that would be in keeping up with "humanism" after the "trans" part. Until that day or night whichever comes first, we will continue to have Iron men flying around.
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24 Seats in Parliament for Party For Freedom
From Eric Dondero:
We'll have full details tomorrow. But the news out of the Netherlands is about as good as it gets for Right Libertarians.
Both parties favored by Libertarian Republican Geert Wilders Party of Freedom, and Mark Rutte's pro-business People's Party (VVD) did exceptionally well. In fact, it appears that Rutte may be able to assemble a coalition on the Right to lead the Government.
From the AP:
AMSTERDAM — An anti-Islam party notched large gains in Dutch elections on Wednesday, but a contest between the two largest parties on the right and left remained too close to call.
With 91 percent of votes counted, the pro-business VVD party led Labor by 31 seats to 30 in the 150-seat parliament, a result that spelled weeks and possibly months of haggling to fashion a ruling coalition among parties deeply split on immigration and how to curb government spending.
The anti-Islam Freedom Party of Geert Wilders scored its best-ever finish with 24 seats.
Although not as outspoken against immigration as Wilders, Rutte has also argued that immigrants who cannot contribute to the Dutch economy should not be allowed to come, and he would ban them from receiving welfare for 10 years after arrival.
Editor's Note - Cliff Thies will have a full election analysis tomorrow here at LR.
