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Andrew Revkin has been reporting on the environment and science for more than a quarter century, including nearly 15 years as a staff writer at The New York Times. He has covered subjects ranging from Hurricane Katrina and the Asian tsunami to the assault on the Amazon, from the troubled relationship between science and politics to climate change at the North Pole. In 2010, he joined the Pace University Academy for Applied Environmental Studies as the Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding. Read more »
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In 2010, Harris' reporting uncovered that the blown-out BP oil well in the Gulf of Mexico was spewing out far more oil than asserted in the official estimates. He covered the United Nations climate negotiations, starting with the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, followed by Kyoto in 1997 and Copenhagen in 2009. Harris was a major contributor to NPR's award-winning 2007-2008 "Climate Connections" series. Read more »
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Roger A. Pielke, Jr. has been on the faculty of the University of Colorado since 2001 and is a Professor in the Environmental Studies Program and a Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES). At CIRES, Roger served as the Director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research from 2001-2007. Roger's research focuses on the intersection of science and technology and decision making. In 2006 Roger received the Eduard Brückner Prize in Munich, Germany for outstanding achievement in interdisciplinary climate research. Read more »
Joshua Freed is the Vice President of the Clean Energy Program at Third Way. He focuses on the policies and strategies needed to bring about clean energy reform and to address climate change. Prior to joining Third Way, Joshua served for more than a decade as a political strategist for national, federal and local campaigns and was a senior staffer on Capitol Hill. Most recently, he was a Vice President at GMMB, where he was part of the media team for Obama for America and advised the senior leadership of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Read more »
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Like Ray Davies, Gedge is most engaging when he reports on the ordinary lives of the lovelorn. On "Après Ski" (named after a type of pullover sweater), we follow the embarrassment and disappointment of an older woman having a one-night fling with a co-worker many years her junior. Gedge is also one of the few writers of late who dares to convey the wonderment of infatuation. On "Your Charms," the album's could-be-American-chart hit if this were 1985, he yelps this most singable chorus: "I just can't think clearly, I'm in your arms and my heart is pounding/How pathetic is this sounding?" Even with Gedge's singing partner Sally Murrell adding a twee Happy Mondays feel to the proceedings, Steve Albini's production allows the guitars to cut through the barrage of French horns and woodwinds and keeps things from getting too precious. Possibly the most British-sounding Brit-pop you're likely to hear this year unless Madness reunites or Morrissey gets off his lazy arsenal.
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Yes, it is safe for simvastatin to be taken with 5-htp. There are no known interactions between these medicines. However, it does not mean that no interactions exist so if you do experience any odd symptoms please see your doctor.
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ARM's security extensions are in the process of being bettered on Linux.
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Last week Jolla launched the Jolla Tablet with Sailfish OS 2.0 that's set to take the waters next year. The Jolla Tablet launched via crowd-funding and thus far it's been wildly successful. Given the success, Jolla has added some stretch goals to the campaign that ends in December.
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Last week Amazon started shipping their new Fire TV Stick device to compete with the likes of Google's Chromecast. I've been trying out the Fire TV Stick since its launch date last week and have been happy with the device, especially considering its low cost.
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I think this is also mommy stuff.
Worked on this concept/study while my little one napped .. Now back to mommy stuff. ✨
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The blisteringly hot epicenter of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown has finally been exposed by a massive machine that uses space-based beams to look through reactor shielding. This method, called Muon tomography, has essentially provided the first pictures from within the interior of the now-defunct reactor.
Outside of the controlled environment of a functional reactor, scientists explore the mysteries of nuclear meltdowns using equations and computer modeling; The alternative of simply cracking open a fractured containment vessel and taking a good long look inside is not recommended. For obvious reasons, doing so would exacerbate an already catastrophic environmental disaster.
This poses a bit of a conundrum. In order to determine whether or not a reactor has melted down and breached its pressure vessel, someone has to get a good look inside of it—where high levels of radiation lurk.
Using billboard-sized detectors, which are filled with inert gases designed to detect and track the path of subatomic particles called muons, scientists have produced a remarkably clear image of the interior of Fukushima's containment vessel.
An image which shows: nothing. But nothing is exactly what you would expect to see if the core's fuel has melted down and escaped the pressure vessel.
Muon tomography, in a sense, is a bit like taking an X-ray image, only on a cosmic scale. They are effective for penetrating relatively flimsy things like human skin and nylon carry-on luggage. But particularly thick materials— say, the containment vessel for a nuclear reactor, which is explicitly designed to prevent radiation from seeping through—is not as conducive.
Enter muons. Muons are high-energy subatomic particles. Outside of specialized particle accelerators, they are primarily generated by cosmic rays hitting Earth's atmosphere: the charged protons collide with atmospheric molecules and split into muons. They exist, on average, for only two microseconds, which is still plenty of time for them to penetrate Earth's crust and other structures.
Making use of those high-energy rays to get a glimpse into large structures is not new. Most famously, muon tomography was used in the 1960s to get a glimpse inside one of the ancient Egyptian pyramids in Giza.
The tomographs have not revealed anything unexpected in the Fukushima Daiichi Number One Reactor, which is a good thing; the calculations and models used to simulate the meltdown and all potential outcomes appear to have been accurate. However, the details of what the interior of the reactor pressure vessel currently looks like helps resolve lingering matters of uncertainty—like whether or not all of the fuel melted out, or if some was left which will warrant special clean up.
The situation as a whole remains unappealing. The plans to scrap the reactors (rather than simply entomb them, as we did after the Chernobyl disaster) will take 40 some years to complete.
The post Particle Physics Glimpses Inwards of Fukushima Meltdown Site appeared first on From Quarks to Quasars.
So, this is sort of cheerfully depressing.
Assuming the universe exists in a state similar to how it is now, without the big rip, big freeze, big bounce, big slurp or any other proposed scenarios taking place, what will our descendants see when observing distant sources of light? Or rather, what will they not see? How will the universe change over the next few trillion years?
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Sometimes bees do dumb things, and people put in a ton of work to help them out. But awesome images here of what a naked, natural hive looks like.
This is a tremendous resource.
Rusty wraps up a lot of my thoughts on the whole Flow extractor thing.
Why flowers are important.
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I'm going to add a little context, but for the most part I think the tweets should speak to themselves.
Yesterday I heard about a service called CleanReader, but didn't pay too much attention to it. This morning K.B. Spangler, a fantastic web cartoonist AND author, had some very clear opinions on it:
Gonna be grumpy about #CleanReader now. Rant mode enabled (1/5)
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Click thru for full text. I really dislike these companies.
By Ben Wear - American-Statesman Staff
I'll say upfront that I don't believe Uber and Lyft's flouting of municipal and state laws across the country will lead us to a "Lord of the Flies" scenario where the social contract disintegrates and it becomes every U.S. man, woman and child for themselves. There's a very good chance that the "transportation networking company" business model is a one-off. No other large companies are emulating it so far, to my knowledge.
But what they're doing is jarring, to say the least.
Scandinavian design.
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Anti-narnia indeed. SFX gore galore.
We open with trailers for Coming Attractions: to the immediate right you can see the French cover for Echopraxie, from Fleuve. I like it. Whoever the artist is, they're channeling a bit of a Giger vibe.
Immediately below, on the other hand, is the cover for Head of Zeus's UK edition (they're the guys who put out the Firefall omnibus; the stand-alone Echopraxia appears slotted for a May release). I think I may like this cover even more than Firefall (and I liked that a lot)— it has a kinda literary feel to it, plus it's the first time I've seen the word "fucking" quoted as part of a front-cover blurb (even if they did asterisk out a couple of letters).
But what I especially like is the contrast between these two covers: the cool palette vs. the hot one, the light vs. shadow. I kinda wish they could be front and back covers of the same edition…
And Now—Our Main Attraction. (Please turn off your cell phones.)
Up in the frigid wastes of Scarberia— not too far from the Magic Bungalow, as it turns out— there's an unremarkable door set into an unremarkable brick wall in an unremarkable industrial park. It's nothing you'd look at twice, if you didn't know that it was a portal to a whole other world. Think of it as the back of the wardrobe, from those Narnia books.
Assuming, of course, that the Narnia books had been written by HP Lovecraft.
One of the cool things about having fans is that you never know what any one of them might turn out to be. You answer an email from some anonymous reader and they turn out to be half an industrial rock duo with NASA connections, or an astronomer whose brain you can pick when you find yourself on thin ice. I have a whole subdirectory of such wondrous fans, ripe for exploitation.
A few of them have turned out to be economists; I'll be exploiting them a fair bit over the next few months. But only one of these economists has a partner who makes disembodied bodies for a living. The company she works for is called MindWarp, and you've seen their handiwork in everything from "12 Monkeys" to "Pacific Rim". Not to mention "Hannibal", for which they do pretty much all the rubber work these days.
Thanks to Joe Fenner (the Economist) and Jenn Pattinson (the Rubber Woman), I got a chance to take my whole family to antiNarnia for a visit last week. Some of what we saw has yet to appear in public. I wish I could show it to you— some of it moves— but the unaired stuff is embargoed.
If you watch any kind of genre at all, though, you may recognize a fair bit of what follows. (All pics can be embiggened by clicking.)
A bit of whimsy to lighten the mood. Also a sampling of the productions to which MindWarp has contributed (just out-out-of-frame: every Saw movie ever made). "Pacific Rim" surprised me; I thought that was all CG. "Black Robe" surprised me more; that was just missionaries and Iroquois. (Although I guess there were some pretty explicit torture scenes in there…)
Lesser FX houses would just build a solid mannequin, slice it up, and paint the slices. Not these guys. These guys built the body from the inside out— viscera, skeleton, body fat, connective fascia, musculature— and then carved it up. I don't know if mere pictures can convey the icky verisimilitude of the result.
Saw these guys live at the Highline with Annie, along with Ancient Warlocks, Ramming Speed, and Valient Thorr. Many battle jackets were to be seen.
Dead simple, fun video. Not to be watched if you're afraid of evil dwarves, though.
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Even if you don't give a shit about R, this will help you learn about FOAAS.
There are two things that make R such a wonderful programming environment - the vast number of packages to access, process and interpret data, and the enthusiastic individuals and subcommunities (of which rOpenSci is a great example). One, of course, flows from the other: R programmers write R packages to provide language users with more features, which makes everyone's jobs easier and (hopefully!) attracts more users and more contributions.
But what if you have an idea, or a need, but not the time or confidence to write a package for it? I can't speak for this blog's readers, but I've been writing R for about two years and it took a good long while before I felt comfortable contributing upstream to CRAN. Or, what if you do have the time, and do have the confidence, but want to spend that time well, on things that you know other people will find useful, and don't know what that is?
After a conversation on Twitter (where all the best R things happen) we've decided to create a dedicated repository to serve as a wishlist of scientific R packages - appropriately named "wishlist". We're still getting the "meta" documentation together, but it's open and accepting ideas!
If you've got an idea for a package, but are looking for collaborators, open an issue! Explain what the package does, what its necessary features are, and what the use cases are. What sort of help are you looking for - someone to write the entire thing? Someone to work on integrating a particularly thorny piece of C++? A statistics expert to check the implementation of an algorithm? Are there any C or C++ libraries we could integrate? Are there libraries in other, less-easily-integrated languages which we could use as a template for what the package should do?
Once an idea is accepted, it lives on the wiki. If you've got the time to work on a project, head over there and see if anything strikes your fancy. If it does, contact the original authors and the other volunteers, start a repository somewhere, and have fun! Just make sure to note ''on'' the wiki that you're working on it, and where you're doing so, for the sake of future readers :).
The only criteria for an idea's inclusion is that the package serve a clear scientific use (as an example: "wouldn't it be nice if we had an API client for this data repository?" qualifies. rfoaas probably wouldn't). A good heuristic would be: if you can explain how this package would benefit scientists or researchers in a way that's convincing to you, propose it!
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There were 325 comments on my previous post the last time I checked. I haven't read all of them. But a number of them appear to be discussing the matter of Enlightenment. Someone said that Zen is definitely a religion because it promises Enlightenment, which is the freedom from suffering.
I never really understood that. My teachers never said anything remotely like, "This practice will bring you to Enlightenment, which is freedom from suffering." The only places I ever saw or heard statements like that were in books and magazine articles that I did not trust, or from people who clearly had no idea what they were talking about. Those people and, of course, Yoda from Star Wars.
I can't tell you whether the practice of Zen will lead you to Enlightenment and relieve you from suffering. I've done this stuff for over thirty years now, though, so I may be able to say a little about what it seems to have done for me.
To me, meditation — zazen specifically — is a way to decrease some of the distractions of the mind. We don't realize, generally, how incredibly distracted we are by the processes going on in our own brains. But if you work on dealing with some of your distractions you discover that there was a whole world out there you had not noticed before because you were too distracted to perceive it. Do this for long enough and a shift in perception/understanding occurs. At least that's how it was for me.
I don't like words like "Enlightenment" or "kensho" or "satori" or "awakening" or any of the other terms commonly used to refer to what happens after you do this process for a long time. They're inaccurate and misleading. However, after years of doing this process I had a number of interesting shifts in my understanding of things. There was one major shift and countless clusters of others that accompanied it and that keep on occurring even now.
People tend to picture these experiences as a change from confusion to certainty. In a sense that's kind of the way it is. But the certainty is more about what's not true than about what is true.
For example, before this stuff started happening to me, I would have pictured Enlightenment as giving me, among other things, certainty about whether there is or is not a God and whether there is or is not life after death. I thought the answer would be either yes or no. How could there be any other answer to questions like that?
Now I comprehend that there is another answer and that is; "framing such questions in the form that requires a yes or a no as an answer is absurd."
The problem is that EVERYONE HATES THAT ANSWER. You hate it. I hate it. The Pope hates it. Pat Robertson hates it. Richard Dawkins hates and despises it so much he hacks up a giant phlegm ball and spits on it. Deepak Chopra hates it more than Oprah does. You will never make big money with that kind of answer.
I understand now that the very way I was trained to think and to communicate my thoughts to others does not allow for me to answer these questions any better than that. There is no linguistic solution to this particular problem. When I say that there is certainty, that's what I'm referring to. This aspect of the problem is certain.
Language communicates common experience. If you have seen a plate of shrimp and I have seen a plate of shrimp, then when I say "plate of shrimp" to you, you have some idea what I'm talking about. But if you said "plate of shrimp" to an inhabitant of the planet Mephiras in the Andromeda Galaxy, zhe would have no idea what you were talking about.
Sometimes, if I'm talking to someone else who has sat with their own minds for a few decades, I can discuss matters like this and can communicate about them. But I can't put straightforward answers to these kinds of questions into a blog or a book. I've tried. Dogen tried. Lots of people have tried. It doesn't work. The questions themselves make it impossible. Although if you sit for a long time observing your own mind, you can sometimes read things like the stuff Dogen wrote (to take one specific example) and they'll make sense to you.
So that's Enlightenment in 200 words or less. What about suffering? Does this practice lead you to freedom from suffering?
Well… my friend Logan died last year and that made me very sad. It still does. A couple months ago I caught a cold and I felt like shit for a few days. Next time I catch a cold, the same thing will happen. I sometimes wish I had things I don't have. I sometimes wish I did not have things I do have. I dislike doing certain things that I nevertheless must do, like my taxes. And so on and on.
What would relief from suffering look like? Would it look like Father Yod in his swimming pool full of naked girls? Would it look like Neem Karoli Baba sitting under a blanket with a bunch of people asking him questions and feeding him oranges? Would it look like Tom Cruise in a mansion in Beverley Hills with enough money and fame to buy him anything on eBay or Craig's List? Would it look like Krishna, perpetually beautiful and immortal?
What are you asking for when you ask for an end to suffering? Do you even know? Maybe you do, but I don't.
Are you asking for a way in which you can do your taxes and enjoy it? Are you asking for a way in which you can have cancer and yet not feel shitty? Do you think that exists? Do you wish it existed? Will wishing it existed make it so?
Don't fill my comments section up with answers. Thanks.
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"What do you see in my eyes?" "Death."
—from 1936's Dracula's Daughter
The image of the cinematic vampire femme fatale is so ubiquitous, it's strange to think that Dracula's Daughter, its earliest iteration, was the only one of its kind for a generation. It becomes markedly less strange, though, when these characters are seen as dots on a timeline, with a rise in cinematic vampire women paralleling changing social attitudes about feminism. What easier form is there for an ambitious woman than a monster, and what better way to subvert derogatory attitudes then by making them infinitely powerful and alluring?
Dracula's Daughter arrived at Universal in 1936, an unwanted stepchild of its horror family, more famous for an absence of Bela Lugosi than the presence of anything in particular. Studio disillusionment was palpable in the way it was sold: The trailer halfheartedly promised, "More exciting than DRACULA," with the exclamation point sheepishly excised. But the film offered images that became a blueprint: Contessa Marya Zaleska (Gloria Holden) is a woman of preternatural self-possession, with intellect and powers above those of mortal men. She also trends toward the Sapphic—a poster warned, "Save the Women of London from Dracula's Daughter!"
The film itself, though with fewer Gothic thrills than its predecessor, is buoyed by a focus on the psychology of its namesake, inviting feminist interpretations. Zaleska—who keeps a manservant to clean blood off her evening cloak, and bends others to her will almost as an afterthought—longs for independence from Dracula's ways, burning his body in hopes of shaking the family legacy: "Free to live as a woman," she vividly imagines, "free to take my place in the bright world of the living!" She even hopes psychiatry can cure her, though it takes only one fetchingly aimless young woman to push Zaleska off the wagon. And smarmy Dr. Garth (Otto Kruger) soon discovers her powers easily overcome the male condescensions of science. The only thing stronger than Zaleska… is death. (Exclamation point sheepishly excised.)
The movie underperformed, and ended up being the last of Universal's initial run of classic-monster movies, but Zaleska—longing to escape from patriarchal obligations—became the first onscreen vampire with a feminist agenda. Appearing less than a generation after American suffrage, a mere eight years after full U.K. suffrage, and three years before Countess Zaleska could have voted in Romania, that's no small feat.
Vampirism is a charmingly reliable metaphor for a particular brand of cinematic feminism. There's no more economical embodiment of the powerful woman as both terrifyingly predatory and soothingly seductive. Whether it's Hammer's chemised pin-ups or hyper-stylish Miriam Blaylock in The Hunger, tucking desiccated conquests out of guests' sight, the vampiric woman reflects both the horror premise that a powerful woman is a direct threat—a literal bloodsucker, out for domination—and the fantasy premise that even if a woman who casts no reflection is out to kill you, she'll still take the time to look her best. And as the cultural discussions around feminism shift, so too do onscreen portrayals of vampire women.
The transformative nature of vampirism, and the autonomy that comes with it, is crucial. Dracula had his captive brides, but usually, the lady vampire is an active, independent figure in her narrative; she holds the frame with that force of will. Vampirism in film is largely its own occupation—cinematic vampires are consumed with the hunt for blood, the search for love, or the nature of immortality itself. A female vampire is, by default, a career woman. She might not always be elite (as with the blue-collar vampires of Near Dark), but vampirism provides her both goals and resources—a powerfully feminist combination. It also suggests freedom from prescribed sexual and social mores, a narrative pulp culture has never hesitated to explore.
Though some filmmakers (like Jean Rollin) explored this connection through original mythology, many drew on foolproof source material. Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 novel Carmilla is a playground of psychosexual Gothic tropes, including a lesbian vampire whose desire for a milquetoast ingenue eventually blows her cover. Carmilla is a mysterious firebrand perfectly suited to cinema about women's taboo appetites. Roger Vadim adapted it as the surreal, slightly straightwashed baroque feature Blood And Roses, but perhaps the most familiar exploration is 1970's The Vampire Lovers. A more-faithful-than-expected Hammer adaptation of Carmilla, it follows enigmatic Carmilla (frequent Hammer star Ingrid Pitt) as she ingratiates herself with virgins of the country gentry, drawing them away from fiancés and fathers, and putting them under her influence. With Carmilla seducing victims in a very literal sense, that influence is largely erotic, to nobody's surprise: the source material is Sapphic, the studio is Hammer, and the gaze of the lens is male.
But Carmilla's intent reads as something other than mere lust, bloody or otherwise. Pitt's cool-eyed dismissal of men's opinions repeatedly swamps the frame—the real warning sign, the movie suggests, of her evil. In the soft-focus, softcore Hammer wonderland, intimate moments with her familiars are framed as enthusiastic love scenes or as bittersweet struggle. Carmilla is tempted to kill the girl she loves—at the psychic behest of the horseman who haunts her steps, which only underscores hatred of men as the major conflict.
Coming in the midst of second-wave feminist discussions of sexual freedom as crucial to an independent life, women's eagerness to keep Carmilla's company suggests a mirror to political lesbianism, the movement that emerged within the second movement in which activists were encouraged to disown men altogether, regardless of sexual orientation. All three of Carmilla's targets abandon men's attentions in Carmilla's favor. In that light, the film hints at a campy undead female solidarity. (The film beat the cult honeymoon-disaster tone-poem Daughters Of Darkness to the post by a year: Daughters also had the subtext of sisterhood at the expense of men, with vampire Elizabeth Bathory attempting to rescue a newlywed from the clutches of her abusive husband.)
The lustful-vampire sisterhood quickly became one of horror's most popular low-budget tropes. It got a particularly explicit narrative in 1974's Vampyres, which is more concerned with the sex life of its lesbian couple than any vampire lore. But even that movie claims as its most uncanny moment a post-coital male victim awakening to find seductress Fran (Marianne Morris) watching him with unblinking eyes, an inversion of the usual sexual gaze—both his and the camera's. And in Tony Scott's The Hunger, one of cinema's most stylish takes on the female vampire, Miriam (Catherine Deneuve) sets aside David Bowie himself in favor of the more modern Dr. Sarah (Susan Sarandon)—who decides she wants nothing to do with the lifestyle to which Miriam's consigned her. Though Scott's original ending left it ambiguous whether anyone survived, MGM insisted on an epilogue that showed Sarah making the most of the luxe afterlife, with Miriam a half-living specter of her past.
Reportedly, neither Scott nor Sarandon approved of the ending, seeing it as too neat a finish for a story suffused with the visual entropy of addiction. But it was the beginning of a new era for the vampire femme fatale—one who sought to examine and understand her nature, and who often rejected her expected role, or asked the audience to reject their expectations. These were Dracula's granddaughters.
Some of the most deliberate deconstructions of the vampire woman are those that actively engage with the supposed eroticism of the familiar image, turning it into an element of horror. In Interview With The Vampire, Neil Jordan uses Claudia's immortal ennui as currency, trading on the unsettling imagery of Kirsten Dunst growing up and getting wise when the men around her didn't want her to. Claudia becomes keenly observant and bitter about her forced girlhood, killing the man who kept her in girls' dresses, and claiming his partner as her lover in a scene staged as near-religious iconography, designed to raise questions about the sexual expectations placed on women in a man's world. (It's the same monstrous-girl taboo that became the linchpin of the moody, understated Let the Right One In.) However, in an age of debate about sex positivity and its portrayals in popular culture, Jordan himself returned to the unerotic identity in Byzantium, in which Gemma Arterton's sexuality-as-performance in skintight dresses and thick eyeliner are shot with such asexual detachment, they take on the the wildlife-documentary dread of an insect luring a meal.
Feminism has become so powerfully entwined with the pop-culture image of the woman vampire that it's possible to remove the signifiers of vampirism and maintain a perfectly recognizable vampire narrative. Park Chan-wook followed up Thirst (in which a female vampire is ruthless beyond death) with the Connecticut Gothic masterpiece Stoker. The pitch-black comedy centers on the uncanny, incestuous, uncomfortably-erotic exchange of power between young India (played with exhausting alertness by Mia Wasikowska) and her sociopathic uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode), who comes to town with a seductive fixation on India, just as the maternal figures in her life start mysteriously disappearing. India is initially seduced by his interest, but soon she discovers her real interest is in her own potential for destruction instead. (Even her primary sexual experience is masturbation—this is a young woman decisively realizing codependence doesn't suit her.) In her triumphant moment, she eclipses her male influencer, accepts her appetite for death, and learns at last to protect the women of the family—all without a fang in sight.
The bloodless vampire is more the exception than the rule, of course. The genre still eagerly returns to some common signifiers, even after the pulp taboo has lost its thrill: the enigmatic calmness, the subtle effects on the natural world, the gleaming blood, the supernaturally pale skin. (There's feminist subtext to be found in movies featuring vampires of color—Hollywood has doled out N'Bushe Wright's Dr. Karen Jenson, whose vampiric limbo in Blade rallies her to the cause, Lucy Liu's vengeful Sadie in the D-movie Rise: Blood Hunter, and more recently the Girl from A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night—but largely, cinematic vampirism is still a white woman's game.) 2014's Only Lovers Left Alive centers a quietly feminist vampire that embodies all these qualities: Eve (Tilda Swinton), a bohemian dilettante with the calm mien of long and unquestioned autonomy. Even her thirst is easily satisfied with bagged blood, with hunting as a last-ditch option; she's a rare glimpse of the vampire with nothing left to rebel against.
It's noteworthy, then, that A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night was also released in 2014. Its nameless vampire girl (Sheila Vand) is stranded in Iran's mythical Bad City, a positively misandrist edge-of-the-wilderness town ringed by a ditch of men's corpses. Within its cultural context, the Girl stalking the night and eliminating men who threaten women is such a feminist character that she doesn't even need a name. Her very presence is vengeance against violent men (mistreating a woman—or suggesting the intent to—is a one-way ticket), and the vampire is just the form in which that social resentment has been most recognizably made flesh. Women still can't safely walking home alone at night. The vampire-girl signals her supernatural nature simply by her fearlessness.
It's striking to realize that the Girl and Eve would hardly recognize each other if they met. They're two of Dracula's daughters who have split markedly far from that matriarch of the family tree. The breadth of the trope visible between them feels like the fulfillment of Le Fanu's haunting Carmilla conclusion: "…to this hour the image of Carmilla returns to memory with ambiguous alternations—sometimes the playful, languid, beautiful girl; sometimes the writhing fiend I saw in the ruined church; and often from a reverie I have started, fancying I heard the light step of Carmilla at the drawing-room door." That's the nature of any cinematic idea that so directly reflects its cultural climate. In these films, the changing nature of these vampires mirrors the promise that women will be what they must be to survive.
Value-in-magical-thinking beat?
On Friday my friend Bryan Clark told me about a film called An Honest Liar and I took him up on his invitation to go see it. I'm glad I did. It's a really good film.
It's a documentary about the Amazing Randi. James Randi is a Canadian magician who made a cause of exposing other magicians who, rather than being honest about their use of tricks and sleight of hand, presented themselves as psychics and faith healers. Randi was angered by how these people used the same sorts of tricks he entertained audiences with to lie to their followers and swindle them out of their money.
In the Seventies, James Randi famously exposed the fakery of spoon-bending psychic Uri Geller and phony faith-healer Rev. Peter Popoff. Yet, even after being exposed as fakes, both Geller and Popoff prospered rather than faded away.
James Randi is a big fan of hard-line Skeptics (with a capital S) like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris. Neither appear in the film, but after the screening I saw at the Nuart Theater, co-director Tyler Maesom did a Q&A in which he mentioned this. I think he said they interviewed Dawkins for the movie but didn't use it in the final cut. Maesom also mentioned that he'd gotten interested in the Amazing Randi because he was raised a Mormon and had a lot of anger around finding out he'd been lied to by the Church.
This got me thinking of another documentary I saw at the Nuart Theater, New York Doll. This film tells the story of Arthur "Killer" Kane, bass player for the New York Dolls. It's also the subject of one of Robyn Hitchcock's best songs, NY Doll. In a nutshell, after the New York Dolls' short and explosive career came to an end, Arthur Kane found himself adrift and broke in Los Angeles, doing lots of drugs and attempting suicide by jumping out his kitchen window.
Then one day, Kane happened to walk into the big Mormon Temple on Santa Monica Boulevard. The Mormons took him in, got him off drugs, gave him a sense of purpose and even helped him get the Dolls back together for one last show with the original members. Then just 22 days after that show, Kane died of leukemia at age 55. He'd had the disease for a long time and it was the prospect of the reunion show that kept his spirits up enough to keep on going.
I started to wonder; Would Arthur Kane have been better off if, instead of the lying Mormons, he'd run into the truth-telling, falsehood-debunking followers of Richard Dawkins instead?
We know the answer. Dawkins and his friends could have offered Kane plenty of hard truths but no comfort. Kane wouldn't have made it to that Dolls reunion and his final years would have been much sadder than they were.
Sure, all that stuff in the Book of Mormon about Joseph Smith finding golden tablets that mysteriously disappeared before anyone else got a look at them and the rest of it is bullshit. The way they flip-flopped on the issue of whether black people could go to Heaven and their intolerant stance on homosexuality is reprehensible. Yet in spite of this, they are able to do their members a lot of good in ways that skeptics are woefully unable to.
I think that in Zen, we try to find the Middle Way through all of this. The Zen attitude towards its own scriptures and ceremonies has always been thoroughly skeptical. To cite just one example, even though the Lotus Sutra says Buddha could fly and that his lectures were attended by all sorts of weird beings from alternate universes, nobody in the Zen lineage ever insists that you need to actually believe any of that stuff. And even though we hold elaborate religious style services with plenty of chanting, bowing and incense offerings to statues, there is never any pressure to believe that some kind of magic happens when we do that stuff.
I'm basically a skeptic. But I'm not a hardline skeptic. I see the value of a certain degree of faith. It's rational to have faith sometimes. Not faith in the supernatural, but faith that what we know is not all there is to know.
Groups like the Mormons and others like them offer what they offer for a price, and that price is that you must believe. In a brilliant article for the LA Weekly called Why I'm Not an Atheist, Henry Rollins speculated on the origins of religion and said some of the same stuff I often say (Henry, do you read me?). He said, "Since there aren't enough resources for everyone to have a personal cop monitoring their every action, there must be a mega-cop so huge that his omnipresence is invisible and unquestionably powerful. This is what I figure religion is. Try to be good. Being human, you will make mistakes, but all is not lost. You can ask to be forgiven; by meditating on your mistake, you will see that it would be unwise to repeat the behavior. Throw in the idea of punishment and reward and it's a workable system."
Yet that system is breaking down under the weight of skepticism and the wider understanding of how the universe really works. It's harder and harder for people to believe in their old Gods. Some try to take up arms against science but it's a fight that's doomed to fail.
What we need is a religion without beliefs. Fortunately we already have one and it's been around for a long time.
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I'm not sure what's happening here.
March, 19th
A solution to the "I need my morning coffee" problem?
This is a remarkable bit of work, and also a REALLY TERRIBLE IDEA.
Evolution with Foresight: an oxymoron, right? Evolution has no foresight. Natural selection only promotes what works in the moment. If a particular mutation doubles your reproductive rate, you will fill the world with thy numbers; the process doesn't understand too much of a good thing, doesn't care if greater fecundity today means overpopulation, starvation, and extinction tomorrow. All it cares about is whether the latest edit gives you an edge right now. Natural selection is the very incarnation of instant gratification (which, I've always thought, explains a great deal about human stupidity.)
But what if we could build foresight into the system? What if we could build a gene for— I dunno, say reduced fertility, give the biosphere a break— and let it loose in the human population? Obviously it would go extinct; people with that gene would breed less, the rest of us would breed more, and a few generations down the road you'd be right back where you started.
But what if— what if— you could force that gene onto the next generation, even if it reduced fitness in the classic sense? What if you could build code that would be beneficial over the long term, and ensure its spread even if it costs you in the moment? What if we could gift evolution with foresight?
Enter the Gene Drive, CRISPR/Cas9 for short. It's a clever little machine built of enzymes and RNAs, and you can attach it to pretty much any gene you like. When a gamete from your transgenic organism hooks up with one from a baseline, CrisperCas detects the presence of the competing wild allele, cuts it out of the opposite strand, and splices your engineered code into the gap. It overwrites wild genes with engineered ones, turns heterozygous pairings homozygous. You can see how this would stack the odds.
And introducing engineered, virtually-unkillable genes into wild ecosystems to do our bidding?
What could possibly go wrong?
CrisperCas flew right under my radar when Esvelt et al took it on tour last summer (I was too distracted birthing Echopraxia). Fortunately this month's piece in h+ got me up to speed, providing links to some of those earlier articles (also here and here). To do them credit, CrisperCas's advocates admit that their technology has the potential to "alter ecosystems … so we'll have to be very careful not to cause damage accidentally". If that's not enough assurance for you, Oye et al have also put out a piece in Science admitting that "Scientists have minimal experience engineering biological systems for evolutionary robustness", and urging us all to get our ducks in a row before we start fiddling with their genes at the population level. They advocate extensive public consultation, careful risk management, and scrupulous regulation to make sure that nothing goes wrong. They introduce something called a "reverse drive", which can be called upon when something inevitably does. (Reverse drives seem to be basically another iteration of the gene drive, configured to undo what the last one wrought. I'm thinking a better name might be "The Little Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly Drive.")
As Esvelt and his buddies point out, it would take centuries to engineer human populations this way; we large mammals are relatively slow breeders. They're much more excited about inflicting the tech on other pest species; disease-carrying mosquitoes, for example, or crop-eating beetles whose resistance to the usual pesticides might be undone by gene drives. But I'm looking even further down: down past the insects, the protists, even the bacteria. I'm remembering that line from Dawkins— life is information, shaped by natural selection— and my recurrent musings (admittedly less cutting-edge now than they once were) that life can be built from ones and zeroes as easily as from carbon and nitrogen. Hell, if you buy into digital physics, that's all any of us are anyway.
Natural selection with foresight. It could change the world even up here, albeit slowly. Think of what it could accomplish in your smart watch.
I wonder if this has anything to do with how the Maelstrom gets started…
The design of the fifth ornament in the Twelve Days of Christmas bas-relief ornament series is underway and you can follow the progress here. It is possible that the 'five golden rings' is a reference to ring-necked pheasants, and in keeping with the song's early emphasis on birds, we are going that route.
I have wanted one of these for a long time.
If you're familiar with 3D printing (you're reading Tested, chances are you're probably pretty familiar with the topic), it isn't too difficult to understand the basics of CNC milling. Instead of building up a form layer by layer, milling carves away from a block of stock material. Replace the plastic extruder of an FDM 3D printer with a high speed spindle turning a sharp cutting bit. CNC milling also requires CAD models of the desired form. And just like 3D printing, CNC mills have been moving from the workshop to the desktop. These machines have become affordable, small, and relatively easy to use.
Milling--subtractive fabrication--is often louder, messier, and let's be honest, not nearly as "magical" as additive 3D printing. The results don't have the same wow factor as a Yoda bust you can make with a basic 3D printer. But this process creates more accurate and durable parts from a much wider selection of materials.
I've been testing several CNC mills for my work at NYU's ITP program, and wanted to share some of my results. Some of these machines work right out of the box, some are kits (like the first home 3D printers). I'll also discuss the difference between home mills and higher-end models designed for workshops, as well as my thoughts on the future of desktop milling. But this week, we'll start off with a machine you may have seen on Tested before: the Othermill.
First up is the Othermill Version 1, made by the Other Machine Co. . Other Machine Co. designed this CNC mill with the belief "that regular people should be able to use professional tools". And I think they knocked it out of the park with this little guy.
The machine is ready to go right out of the box. It has easy to understand controls, just one button. The two wrenches, used to secure and remove the cutting end mills, can be secured to magnets on the front of the machine. This is such a simple little thing, but it is so handy. I'm now convinced every tool that requires a specialty wrench/chuck key/whatever should be held to the machine by a magnet. Seriously, this should be standard for all power tools.
The mill has a work area of 5.5" x 4.5" x 1.25", meaning it can work with blocks of material that size or smaller. Recommended materials--wood, metal, and plastic--are fixed to the aluminum bed using double sided tape, hot glue, or screwed down using any of the numerous tapped mounting holes.
Otherplan is the recommended free software. It is Mac only, which is practically unheard of in the CNC world, and is intuitive and easy to use, which is also pretty unheard of in the CNC world. You can be up and running in minutes--it took me longer to mount the material to the mill than to set everything up in Otherplan and begin cutting.
Otherplan has taken a lot of the things that are usually a drag about CNCing and made them easy. Determining mill feeds and speeds for a particular material is typically an educated guess/trial and error kind of process. Otherplan let's you pick material from a drop down list with pre-set values. All of the pre-sets I've used have been right on the money. There is an advanced setting called "Bit Breaker" that allows you to adjust the settings. But I found out the hard way that Bit Breaker can be an apt name.
In my experience, setting the Z axis (the up and down direction) origin on CNC machines is usually a pain in the neck. The Othermill simples this too. The end mill is brought down to the aluminum bed and completes an electrical circuit on contact. The downward motion is stopped and zero is set. The only catch, you need to be fairly accurate in determining the thickness of your material. I wouldn't use this mill without a set of digital calipers close at hand.
If material is mounted to the bed by screws, you can select which threaded hole(s) you are using and Otherplan will steer clear. Fantastic.
Now I would never leave a running CNC unattended (and you shouldn't either), but the Othermill does have a "set it and forget it" kind of feel. For longer jobs, I'd have it running on my desk and keep an occasional eye on it while doing other work, so far so good.
I feel the Othermill really shines when making 2.5D parts. 2.5D parts are actually three dimensional objects created from two dimensional drawings. A 2D .svg file made in a vector graphics program (Adobe Illustrator, InkScape, etc) can be imported and Otherplan does all the heavy lifting. Shapes are set as either cutouts or engravings and multiple files can be layered on top of each other, allowing for a lot of control and experimentation. It felt a little like sketching, only I had actual physical parts when I was done.
It's also possible to make true 3D parts with curvy surfaces (I'm envisioning a lot of self-portraits frozen in carbonite) by importing g-code, the programming language for CNC machines. But a third party CAM software will be necessary to create the code. Other Machine Co. recommends Autodesk CAM tools.
When cutting softer materials the noise and mess levels are pretty low. You could keep this guy running on your desk, still get work done, and not tick anyone off (for the most part). Cutting hardwood and aluminum is a different story. The machine can get loud, I had to take it all the way back into the workshop for the dirty looks to stop. But the mill only weighs 16.8 lbs. and has two convenient carrying handles, so it is very mobile. The mess is pretty contained, some dust might get on your work surface, but a decent shop vac is necessary to properly clean out the mill. I'm told the Othermill Version 2, the model they're shipping now, is more contained and noise and mess are even less of an issue.
I experimented cutting a wide variety of materials: wood, metal, PCB boards, plastic, even mushrooms (long story). The Othermill cuts hardwoods beautifully, I tested mostly with walnut and it produced really clean lines. I got a lot of tear out with plywood, but I chalk that up to the low grade ply I was experimenting with. In the beginning I cut a lot of aluminum, there is something incredibly empowering about making metal parts. The mill is not exactly a beast, and aluminum put a little wear and tear on the machine. The cuts were fine, but I wouldn't have this guy ripping through metal all day. But for the occasional metal part, it does the job.
The material I was happiest with is a plastic made by DuPont called Delrin. I know I'm late to the party here, but Delrin, where have you been all my life? It just wants to be machined. The milled surface finish looks incredible. Delrin is pretty much self lubricating and perfect for mechanical parts. Chocolate and peanut butter, Butch and Sundance, Othermill and Delrin.
A Good Place to Start
From my testing, the Othermill seems ideal both for first timers looking to get into CNCing and experienced makers who want to create fussy little parts. I loved how simple it is to get up and running and the price is right, compared to higher-end milling machines. Other Machine Co. has a good product here.
Photos by Ben Light. Find more of Ben's projects on his website.
So far as I can tell, every free object in the map has been rotated 180 degrees around its centroid. Which is sort of upside down? But not in the sense of how I initially thought it should be.
This is goddamn crazy.
You know the drill. DNA holds the source code; RNA carries it to the ribosomes; ribosomes build stuff for the cell. Of course, the details of cellular operation are a million times more intricate than this— some RNA acts not to courier code but to switch genes on and off, for example— but it's this venerable three-step that puts the tinkertoys together.
Now. If a sufficiently unscrupulous RNA molecule had an agenda at odds with the wishes of Daddy DNA, it could do a fair bit of damage. Change an instruction or two while on the road, enlist some hitchhiking enzyme into provoking a frame-shift or a faux-point-mutation. The nucleus mails off an order for Game of Thrones and the ribosome receives one for Spongebob Squarepants.
The term is RNA editing and it occupies center stage in this recent paper on cephalopod genetics. RNA editing is generally a very rare event. This makes it all the more remarkable that Alon et al report over 57,000 recoding sites for the Longfin Inshore Squid— an order of magnitude higher than reported for any other species. Even cooller, all these hijacked codes seem to be involved in building the nervous system. ("Synaptic vesicle cycle", "axon guidance", "actin cytoskeleton", and "Circadian rhythm" are all processes listed as massively rewritten downstream of the DNA.)
This is part of a squid synapse. Red and yellow bits are subject to change without notice. (from Alon et al.)
It's right there in the title: The Majority of Transcripts in the Squid Nervous System are Extensively Recoded. As the authors point out, this necessitates a major rethink of the whole squidly evolutionary process. But there are applications beyond such obvious intrinsic biological interest.
If I was interested in rebuilding a cephalopod to my own ends— perhaps adding organic tasers, or extra eye-sockets repurposed as oceanographic sensors (imagine luciferin fluorescence as an indicator of dissolved O2, which trigger photopigments in a modified retina, which in turn send that data back to a central nervous system via an extra optic nerve!)—
Well, let's just say that a squid who comes pre-equipped with its own set of downstream editing enzymes, targeted to major CNS functions, might come in really handy.
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POTUS,had a grandmother to take care of him when his father & mother deserted him . Yet ,He referred to her as a typical " White Person " .RACIST ??? . Go ask POTUS .
Our President also referred to to his grandmother as a " typical white person ",she who helped rear him when his father & mother had moved on to other things .
Please include the Black Panthers with the KKK. I detest & denounce the views of both .Marion Robinson`s statement is relevant as it shows how she viewed others .the fact that the object of her comment becoming POTUS is not a reason to say ," Nothing to see here folks, move along ".Many on this site write comments that they are not prepared or unable to back up in an intelligent manner . They just hope by using the racist comment that will scare everybody from conversing in an adult fashion .
You say you cannot comment for others , which I appreciate .Yet MidNJ ,who started the racism accusations cannot comment for himself .
Personal attacks include accusing others of racism ,without any facts to back it up . Silence is THUNDER.
Marion Robinson quote is not maybe she did or maybe she didn`t say .She did . President Bush is married to Laura not Laurel .
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As the Dem Party became more liberal, the GOP became more conservative. Nixon made way for the politicization of religion, and Reagan's 1980 election finally pushed the liberal Republicans out, even pushing the Dem Party more conservative. While the Dem Party has begun to swing back more liberal (e.g., supporting marriage equality), the GOP has become more conservative (e.g., opposing Civil Rights legislation). The Parties have become more polarized. Civil discourse, a fundamental principal of democracy, is currently dead.
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During Roosevelt's terms, the Dem Party became more liberal (strengthen by the New Deal), as did the GOP. Large fractions of both Parties favored Unions and Civil Rights. But the conservative southern Dems were still a powerful pull. And even the conservative GOP fraction joined with the conservative Dem fraction in the McCarthy trials and other conservative events. Slowly, the shift away from mixed liberal/conservative political parties began during the 1950s push for Civil Rights, culminating in Kennedy's push for Civil Rights legislation, which was signed into law by Johnson. Although southern conservative Dems (who absolutely opposed Civil Rights legislation in favor of Jim Crow laws, e.g., Bull Conner) began to join the GOP in the 1950s (e.g., Strom Thurmond & Ronald Reagan), the biggest loss of southern conservative Dems came during and after the 1960s.


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Pruning cherries for containers
What is the ideal way to prune these two cherry trees, which will remain in containers? They were planted last year as bare root whips One is lapins, the other is black gold I think. In the first picture all the branches grew in the same plane (all left and right at 180 degrees.
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I've got about 6 in pots going on 5 years. The only reason to prune those now would be that you want more branches. Any pruning will delay bearing. Shape doesn't matter to me especially in a pot. They don't get big enough to have much issue with shading out the lower/inner spurs.
If they start to over bear, set too much fruit, in a few years then prune hard to reduce flower buds and renew fruiting wood.
More branches equals more yield. But heading to get those branches will slow down bearing. I know both statements seem to contradict each other. If you want max yield in 3rd leaf don't prune. If you want a more compact heavily branched tree then head back each shoot by 1/2 to 1/3.
Me I go for yield asap and don't prune early. Later on I can fill the tree out.
What is the rootstock?
you provided a lot of assistance in purchasing these (and other plants) last year. They are on gisela 5 Lapins and Black Gold.
Althought it doesn't look like it, the left branch on the left tree is almost vertical while the rest are more angled.
On that same left tree, there is a little nub of a branch that started growing late last year (approx 1 or inches long). Should i remove it or just leave it alone until next year (and then ask you again.lol).
These are my first trees and i will probably get 2 more next year. i wanted to lear a little with these first.
I've read that one way to promote branching, one that I am trying this year, is to remove some of the buds, especially those near the tips of the limbs and of the leader.
You want to leave the terminal bud - the one that will continue lengthening the limb and the leader, but remove the rest of the cluster at the end of the limb as that's where most of the energy goes.
Then remove buds down the limb, leaving buds where you want branches.
I can't find the particular article right now but will post a link later today.
The idea, as fruitnut said, is to promote branching without heading or pruning as that increases the time to fruiting.
Thanks. I'll be interested to see the article if you can find it. Since I only have 2 trees, I don't want to experiment too much.
If I was to trim a third off of each branch, what is the right time? End of this month before they really get going? Looks like the buds may be beginning to swell.
If you are to prune do it now.
I've read the article about removing buds and tried it once. It didn't seem to change anything that I could tell. I'm not knocking the idea I just don't know so I usually take the easy way out which is to do nothing.
I know my posts on this subject are probably confusing. Cherries aren't the easiest tree to prune/train. They do their thing and thumb their nose. But, there is good news: on Gisela 5 they have always started to bear the 3rd leaf for me. A nice crop the 4th leaf.
Well, I spent the whole evening searching my hard drive, my bookmarks, and the Internet using every possible combination of keywords and couldn't find the one particular article I was thinking of.
The one linked below is OK, but the "lost" one was more specific.
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March 24, 2015
U.S. infrastructure continues to decay at an alarming rate, as exemplified by the low grades consistently awarded by the ASCE Infrastructure Report Card. While there are many contributors to the decay and degradation of our nation's transportation infrastructure, one that cannot be overlooked in many states is the annual winter application of deicing salts.
March 20, 2015
On March 6, 2015, Good Morning America aired an investigation on bridge accidents. Footage was used that originated from Purdue University Associate Professor of Lyles School of Civil Engineering Robert Connor and his research with a web-based bridge monitoring interface. His research focused on a short-term monitoring solution for a more effective asset management tool used by bridge owners when inspecting critical onsite locations.
December 15, 2014
In partnership, Purdue Libraries and the Joint Transportation Research Program (JTRP) achieved a major milestone on Sunday, December 7, 2014, with over one million downloads of technical reports within the Libraries' Purdue e-Pubs, the University's worldwide online open access Institutional document repository.
November 21, 2014
On November 19, 2014, JTRP hosted a joint meeting with Tonya Brothers-Bridge, Lt. Governor Chief of Staff, Steve Abel, Purdue University Associate Vice President for Engagement, INDOT Commissioner Karl Browning and INDOT Deputy Commissioner Jay Wasson.
June 9, 2014
Runway incursions are a significant safety concern, particularly at general aviation airports. In 2013, there were over 1200 runway incursions. In May 2014, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) awarded a project to Profs. Darcy Bullock and Sarah Hubbard to evaluate the feasibility of using rumble strips on taxiways to warn pilots of the upcoming runway with the objective of reducing runway incursions.
May 23, 2014
Purdue University researchers have produced a new site investigation torque tool, known as SPT-T that can better characterize the soil and provide valuable data on shear strength, particularly for clay soils and glacial till. It replaces the standard practice in such soils of recovering low-quality samples that are then tested in unconfined compression. Obtaining additional real-time data onsite at a lower cost and increased reliability will lead to more effective and economical design of geotechnical structures in these soils.
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Since December 2009, JTRP's Trailer Cam has provided our researchers many advantages, including a mobile traffic observation point and education and data validation featuring self-contained power and communication.
April 18, 2014
An integral component of JTRP is providing electronic access to technical reports for INDOT, as well as colleagues around the world. In 2010, JTRP and the Purdue Libraries began digitizing technical reports dating to the 1950s. More than 1,500 technical reports now reside in the JTRP Technical Report Repository on e-Pubs with 787,695 total downloads as of April 17, 2014.
April 15, 2014
Steven Lavrenz (JTRP), Pulkit Parikh, and Vinay Varadarajan represented Purdue in the regional Traffic Bowl competition sponsored by Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) on April 14, 2014 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
November 14, 2013
Local polish-susceptible aggregates can be used to replace a portion of high-quality friction aggregates in HMA and SMA surface mixtures without detrimental effects on friction.
October 25, 2013
Prior to 2013, INDOT operated two paint trucks per district (one edge line truck and one center line truck). The Greenfield and Crawfordsville districts were chosen to develop and test ideas to enable the transition to painting with just one truck per district.
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A JTRP study (SPR-3709) led by Purdue Civil Engineering Professors Phillip Dunston and Hubo Cai has been initiated to analyze the data from the IC rollers. This data, along with the corresponding Dynamic Cone Penetrometer (DCP) acceptance tests, will be used to develop allowable tolerances and acceptance testing criteria.
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INDOT continues to innovate how it prioritizes investments in capital and operations projects to improve Indiana mobility. This report, the second in the series, provides quantitative performance measures that identify congestion according to its frequency and severity.
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INDOT's Research and Development Division provides specialized testing services in a variety of areas related to pavements and structures for data driven decision making and to minimize risks. These tests assist the department in warranty contract compliance, pavement designs, safety of Indiana roadways, and forensic investigations.
May 14, 2013
The objective of this research is to develop design strategies to improve the efficiency and optimize the design of the Indiana modified U-beam. The research program has been focused in three areas (1) evaluating the live load distribution appropriate for the design of U-beams, (2) assessing the behavior and design of the bridge deck when supported by U-beams, and (3) evaluating both the shear strength and shear design of the composite U-beam system.
April 1, 2013
Internally cured high performance bridge concrete (ICHPC) is a standard bridge deck concrete mixture in which a portion of the cement is replaced with silica fume and fly ash to improve the properties, providing a more dense and less permeable material.
April 3, 2013
In 2008, Robert Frosch, Michael Kreger, and Aaron Talbott completed "SPR-2867: Earthquake Resistance of Integral Abutment Bridges." The project examined the response of integral abutment bridges to seismic loading. The project combined the results of field, analytical, and laboratory investigations to evaluate allowable bridge lengths based on seismic performance.
February 4, 2013
Recently, Alain El Howayek, Antonio Bobet, Sulaiman Dawood, Andrew Ferdon, and Maria C. Santagata from Purdue, with Nayyar Zia Siddiki from INDOT, completed "SPR-3517: Classification of Organic Soils and Classification of Marls - Training of INDOT Personnel."
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In 2009 Chulmin Jung, Sochan Jung, Antonio Bobet and Nayyar Siddiki completed "SPR-3380: Field Investigation of Subgrade Lime Modification." That project investigated the quality of the treatment that would be obtained using current construction procedures and also explored other methods that could provide a more uniform and better quality subgrade.JTRP research project investigates the quality of the treatment that would be obtained using current construction p
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Rumble stripes are an effective countermeasure for preventing roadway departure crashes. The noise and vibration produced by rumble stripes alert drivers when they leave the traveled roadway. Rumble stripes is the term used for stripes painted with a retro reflective coating to increase the visibility of the pavement edge at night and during inclement weather conditions.
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