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It’s common knowledge that Paris can be a pretty expensive city to visit. But you don’t have to spend a small fortune to get the most out of the French capital. There are plenty of ways to stretch your euros that will make you feel like you got so much more than your money’s worth.It’s common knowledge that Paris can be a pretty expensive city to visit. But... more
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From The New York Times
The Mystery of the Menger Sponge
By KENNETH CHANG
One of the proposed exhibits for the Museum of Mathematics involves a Menger sponge, a geometric object devised by a mathematician named Karl Menger in 1926.
The Menger sponge consists of a cube with square holes, arrayed in a fractal pattern, through the top and the sides.
“It’s a well-known object that people have studied for a long time,” said George Hart, the museum’s chief of content. “But it’s only recently that anyone thought to slice it in this interesting way.”
In the proposed exhibit, a visitor can pull apart the two pieces of the Menger sponge and discover that the holes along the diagonal are not squares, but six-sided stars. "It's like a 'gosh, that's really cool' kind of emotion people have," Dr. Hart said. "It's a very nice example of how mathematics can give you these big surprises."
Smaller blocks would help visitors understand what is going on. Along the diagonal, a square hole is stretched into a diamond shape, and the intersection of holes from three directions produces the Star of David shape.
http://momath.org/gallery/
From The Museum of Math's website-
Mission
Mathematics illuminates the patterns that abound in our world. The Museum of Mathematics strives to enhance public understanding and perception of mathematics. Its dynamic exhibits and programs will stimulate inquiry, spark curiosity, and reveal the wonders of mathematics. The museum’s activities will lead a broad and diverse audience to understand the evolving, creative, human, and aesthetic nature of mathematics.
Brief history
The Museum of Mathematics began in response to the closing of a small museum of mathematics on Long Island, the Goudreau Museum. A group of interested parties (the “Working Group”) met in August 2008 to explore the creation of a new museum of mathematics — one that would go well beyond the Goudreau in both its scope and methodology. Led by Glen Whitney, the group quickly discovered that there was no museum of mathematics in the United States, and yet there was incredible demand for hands on math programming.
Accomplishments to date include creating the popular Math Midway exhibition, which is currently touring museums throughout the United States; leading math tours in various U.S. cities; the Math Encounters presentation series; delivering programs for students, teachers, and the public to increase appreciation of mathematics; and raising over $22 million to date.
Organization
The Museum is governed by a Board of Trustees, receives intellectual guidance from an Advisory Council, and operates with the assistance of the Working Group. Glen Whitney serves as President of the Board of Trustees and Executive Director of the museum.
Charter
The Museum received its official charter from the New York State Department of Education on November 17, 2009.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/06/28/science/28math-menger/28math-menger-articleLarge.jpgFrom The New York Times
The Mystery of the Menger Sponge
By KENNETH CHANG
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Its controversial Street View guide has already let millions take a peek at private addresses all over the world.ow Google is harnessing this technology to allow users the chance to roam the finest museums on the planet - from the comfort of their own home.The online search giant even claims its Art Project tours are better than the real thing, with one exhibit in each location available in a high-resolution image that goes beyond 'what is possible with the naked eye'.
LINK : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1352503/Google-Street-View-lets-tour-worlds-finest-museums.htmlIts controversial Street View guide has already let millions take a peek at private... more
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That Houdini, who was active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries continues to inspire twenty-first century visual artists such as Matthew Barney, Petah Coyne, Jane Hammond, Vik Muniz, Deborah Oropallo, and Raymond Pettibon (see the slideshow in the left column) speaks to his enduring power of his prowess and personality.That Houdini, who was active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries... more
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On Friday October 29, 2010 The Jewish Museumwill present Houdini: Art and Magic, the first major art museum exhibition to examine the life, legend and enduring cultural influence of Harry Houdini. The exhibit will explore the career and lasting impact of the magician, escape artist, vaudeville entertainer, silent movie actor, author and lecturer through 163 objects including 26 recent works of art inspired by Houdini.
View the slideshow: http://goo.gl/5JhVOn Friday October 29, 2010 The Jewish Museumwill present Houdini: Art and Magic, the... more
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“What Visions Burn” is an amazing animated 3-minute short art film by the painter Ezra Johnson, which tells the story of a pair of cunning art thieves in New York City. It portrays their audacious $100 million museum art heist and its aftermath, in which Johnson intertwines content with style for a unique take on the robber-film genre. Johnson paints and repaints his canvases to create each frame of the film, providing a rich visual texture and continuity. He uses the medium of painting to make a film about stolen paintings, and interjects newspaper headlines, made from newsprint collages, into the action.
This piece presents a number of colorful illustrations, as well as the remarkable short art film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/what-visions-burn-a-spectacular-100-million-museum-art-heist/“What Visions Burn” is an amazing animated 3-minute short art film by the... more
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Roger took, one of Britains most vilest creatures, curator of the barbican and many other famous museums is in jail for the most depraved acts of child sex abuse. At his court case his (equally as sick) friends wrote glowing character references that brought this mans sentance down to a pathetic 4 and a half years, his arrest and jailing was hardly mentioned in the press (which is strange dont you think, seeing as a normal paedophile of the street is ripped apart in the press) surely the most shocking thing is that this man resided in the upper class circles and upon his release will probably worm his way back in. Read the link and spread the word!!!! it's so hard to read but you must as this is the harsh reality of life.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/essays/all/826056/the-establishment-paedophile-how-a-monster-hid-in-high-society.thtmlRoger took, one of Britains most vilest creatures, curator of the barbican and many... more
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The American Museum of Natural History began the process of separating two long-time combatants — barosaurus and allosaurus skeletons — that have shared the same display mount in the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda since they were first installed in 1991. The separation kicked off with curator Mark Norell overseeing the first ceremonial cut in the mount.The American Museum of Natural History began the process of separating two long-time... more
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Zircons are tiny crystals with a big story to tell. Some of these minerals are the oldest Earth materials ever discovered, and therefore yield clues about what the planet was like after it formed 4.5 billion years ago. In this new Science Bulletins video, travel to a remote island off Greenland's coast and a zircon-making lab in New York State to learn how geologists are using these time capsules to build new hypotheses about the early Earth.Zircons are tiny crystals with a big story to tell. Some of these minerals are the... more
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By Max Leonard, le cool London
London’s “secret” tube station, West Ashfield, is not one of the several dozen abandoned tube stations, marking obscure branch lines or places (North End, York Road, Down Street) no longer important enough to merit their own stop. It is, instead, a fake tube station used for training, perched on the third floor of a London Underground building in West Kensington. As such, it is quintessentially London, which is a city characterised by strange inversions and returns, and things being where they should not be.
Sometimes it’s the subterranean erupting into the open, as with a property developer’s bid to restore one of London’s lost rivers to its original course. The Tyburn was buttressed and repressed into Victorian culverts and sewers, though where it does surface people fish for trout, and its restoration would create a newly riverine South Molton Street. A small impediment: Buckingham Palace also stands in its way.
But it’s when everyday life is forced underground that is most intriguing, as proved at Tate Britain’s Henry Moore exhibition, which is now entering its final weeks. Forget his familiar, doughy large-scale sculptures and focus instead on the small, ink, watercolour and wax crayon drawings he made during the Second World War. Moore’s studio was bombed in 1939, leaving him unable to create sculpture, so, as an official war artist, he would descend into the Tube system with London’s working classes, who did not have private air raid shelters, and recorded the pitiful, harrowing scenes he saw. At some, such as Clapham North Deep Shelter, up to 12,000 people would sleep nightly. At others, such as the Aldwych, people would sleep huddled together on the tracks. In Moore’s powerful, elemental images, a dark, troglodytic London emerges. As the original 1941 exhibition panel said, it is ‘a terrifying vista of recumbent shapes, pale as all underground life tends to be pale; regimented, as only fear can regiment; helpless yet tense, safe yet listening, uncouth, uprooted, waiting in the tunnel for the dawn to release them. This is not the descriptive journalism of art. It is imaginative poetry of a high order.’
Henry Moore is at Tate Britain, Millbank, until August 8.tate.org.ukPhoto credit: Children outside air raid shelter, Gresford.
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By Josh Jones, Features Editor, le cool London
London, it appears, has quite the pocketful of museums kicking about on its streets. I once went to the British Museum, and to be honest, after the impressive ceiling you see when you walk in, I got really quite bored and went to the pub across the road to watch an impossibly beautiful Italian family eating some 'traditional' dirty looking food from under a heat lamp and pretending it was delicious tapas. When the mum started reading the HP Sauce bottle label like it was a very fine wine I had to go over and tell them some much better places to eat, and the gratefulness in their eyes was marvellous. That's my museum story. Here's five museums the capital boasts, which you really probably have no reason to go to… Canal Boat Museum My mate had his 30th birthday here. It was well funny - we chugged along in a canal boat (funnily enough) from Camden Lock until we got there and danced the night away. In the day time I think it's a little more sedate, but if you would like to know about London's watery heritage then you should go here, which incidentally is housed in a former ice warehouse built in the late 19th Century for Carlo Gatti, who as well you know was a famous ice cream maker. Garden Museum For a city where the average citizen's garden is the hair on their partners back, it's quite nice that a couple founded this place (originally called The Museum Of Garden History) when they found the tomb of some 17th century plant hunters (you could do anything you liked in the 17th century) in the churchyard of this place. It recently had a dramatic transformation and now it's got over 9,000 things about gardens for you to enjoy. Bank of England museum I'll admit - I only found this on Google when I was trying to bulk up this list. But this is free and it tells the story of the legendary building since it was founded in 1694, right through to today. And as it's been around for quite a while, most of the stuff it deals with is sparkly and expensive, so there's plenty of interesting things to look at, be it from really old money, to gold and, it proudly announces, cartoons. Which quite handily brings me on to… The Cartoon Museum
Just down the road from the British Museum on Little Russell Street, this has actually only been around since 2006. The Cartoon Museum says on its website that it exhibits the very finest examples of British cartoons, caricature and comic art from the 18th century to the present day. And who am I to argue? I've not been to it. Fan Museum One of the finer things about this city is the sheer barminess of the things you can find. Amsterdam has a museum chock full of cocks and whips, which to be honest is a massive cliche for the famous vice city, but we've got the worlds only place that's devoted to every aspect of fans and fan making. There's over 3,500 mainly antique fans from all over the globe dating as far back as the 11th century. It's situated in tow listed buildings and they've built an orangery out the back with a secret Japanese garden in it. Of course they did.
By Josh Jones, Features Editor, le cool London
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Spider biologist Norman Platnick, from the American Museum of Natural History, has traveled the world cataloguing some of these creatures, many for the first time ever. World renowned for his work, he hopes to find as many as species as possible before some disappear.Spider biologist Norman Platnick, from the American Museum of Natural History, has... more
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This video tells the story of speciation in Central Africa's roiling, rapid Lower Congo River. This river is home to an extraordinary assortment of fish -- many truly bizarre. This new video by Science Bulletins, the American Museum of Natural History's current-science video program, features Museum scientists on a quest to understand why so many species have evolved here. Follow Curator of Ichthyology Melanie Stiassny and her team as they search the Lower Congo Rivers mysterious depths for an evolutionary driver.This video tells the story of speciation in Central Africa's roiling, rapid Lower... more
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This video is the first of a new series of behind-the-scenes looks at the collections at the American Museum of Natural History. In this video, Melanie Stiassny, Axelrod Research Curator in the Department of Ichthyology, takes us through the Museum's vast collection of fishes.This video is the first of a new series of behind-the-scenes looks at the collections... more
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It might seem bizarre that science is using art to learn about the mind—looking for hard facts in the most ethereal of places. But great artists turn out to be the world's first neuroscientists. Consider the flightless fluffs of brown otherwise known as herring gull chicks. Since they're entirely dependent on their mothers for food, they're born with a powerful instinct. Whenever they see a bird beak, they frantically peck at it, begging for their favorite food: a regurgitated meal. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/section-blog/290-unlocking-the-mysteries-of-the-artistic-mind-It might seem bizarre that science is using art to learn about the mind—looking... more
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