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27 ago 2011
Your Money: Investment Advice For Doctors: First, Do No Harm
They take eight or so years off from the world to do nothing but learn how to be doctors, then receive a six-figure annual paycheck with no real idea of what to do with it.
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Fukushima: First photojournalist inside plant captures daily life of cleanup workers
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Japan: First Report Of Radioactive Contamination In Rice
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German Pirate Party Poised To Win First Federal Electoral Contest
Germany's Pirate Party is kicking major electoral ass, holding 50 local elected offices across the country, and are now poised to win their first federal electoral contests:
“We are delighted that our demands for more transparency, participation and democracy for the people of Berlin are shared by the public. The Berlin people want change, and they recognize that a vote for the Pirate Party is not wasted,” Pirate Party’s Gerhard Anger said.German Pirate Party On Course to Election Win“With this poll result we are not in the state parliament yet. However, it is an important step in the right direction. We have to work hard in the next four weeks. In order to see the results of this poll reflected in actual votes on election day, we still have to keep on going,” Anger adds.
Previously the German Pirate Party already held a seat in the national parliament when Jörg Tauss left the Social Democrats to join the pirates. However, having people voted into parliament through an election would be an even bigger accomplishment.
(Image: Pirate party!, a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image from mapkyca's photostream)
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U.s. Plans First Sale Of Offshore Oil Leases Since Gulf Disaster
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Northrop Grumman’s sexily badass X-47B unmanned combat air system made its first flight ever on Friday, circling a desert runway a couple times all by itself before successfully not crashing. Northrop seemed pretty happy about the way things went:
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World’s First Badminton Robot
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Jingle Bells was the first song played in space
This harmonica, and these bells, are sitting in the Smithsonian Museum today. In 1965, however, they were in space, with astronauts Walter M. "Wally" Schirra Jr. and Thomas P. Stafford, who were doing a pre-Christmas mission aboard Gemini 6.
Jingle Bells was the first song played in space
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7 dic 2010
Inside the world's first transistor
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Susan Philipsz becomes first sound artist to win Turner Prize
Susan Philipsz becomes first sound artist to win Turner Prize
Marc Weidenbaum founded the daily ambient-music and sound-art blog Disquiet.com in 1996. He's written for Nature, NewMusicBox.org, The Ukulele Occasional, and other publications. He also edits comics.
Student protests greeted the announcement of Susan Philipsz as this year's winner of the Turner Prize, the biggest annual award for an artist in Britain.
As the Guardian noted, she is the "first person in the history of the award to have created nothing you can see or touch."
The students, though, weren't protesting the absence of visuals in Philipsz's art; they were using media coverage of the announcement as an opportunity to protest prospective diminished budgets for the arts at universities.
The work for which Philipsz was commended, an installation titled "Lowlands," involved recordings of her singing an oft-covered Scottish song, "Lowlands Away," being played by the river Clyde in her native Glasgow. Her plain, natural, casual (i.e., largely untrained) voice seemed to emanate from nowhere and everywhere. It echoed against a massive bridge structure, and mixed in with the sounds of the environment.
[ Photo: Susan Philipsz, LOWLANDS 2008 / 2010 Clyde Walkway, Glasgow. Courtesy of the artist, the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, and photographer Eoghan McTigue. ]
The news about Philipsz's triumph is great for several reasons. The 45-year-old Scottish artist's win marks a major milestone for sound art, which is to say for so-called fine art in which audio is the core if not sole constituent element. It wasn't just the first time a sound-art work won -- it was the first time one was even nominated for the Turner.
And it's also a maturing point for sound art, which often involves electronically produced noises, but as evidenced by Philipsz's headline-making accomplishment, can also comprise popular song. (In addition, it's worth noting that exactly two decades ago in 1990, there was no Turner prize at all due to the absence of a sponsor, so it's great the thing is still around.)
Philipsz is the fourth woman to win the Turner. Past winners include poop-friendly duo Gilbert & George, skull-bedazzler Damien Hurst, and video remixer Douglas Gordon (whose slowing down of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho provided inspiration for Don DeLillo's recent novella, Point Omega).
More on the prize at tate.org. See also this Guardian story (one of many).
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1990 was exactly 2 decades ago
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