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jenlucpiquant

28 Jul 2012

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British physicist jailed in Argentina on 'honeytrap' drug smuggling charges is 'naïve fool', says ex-wife

Dictionary of Irish Biography - Cambridge University ...

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rebeccaf87

28 Jul 2012

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John Stewart Bell (1928-1990), an outstanding Irish physicist who worked at CERN. Born today 1928. Read short biog at

Going where the beam is good - physicsworld.com

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physicsworld

25 Jul 2012

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Why are high-energy physicists like surf bums? Find out in our new #scicareers podcast

The Doctors, Physicists, and Mathematicians Who Made ...

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We told you about how Eadweard Muybridge came up with the first set of moving photographs, which started the age of motion pictures. But way before that, we had animation, or moving drawings. There were quite a few gadgets in the 19th century that produced these moving pictures: the optical toys known as the Thaumatrope, the Phenakistoscope, the Zoetrope, the Praxinoscope, and more. Richard Balzer, a collector of early optical toys, takes us through their history and development in a delightful art...

frhn

25 Jul 2012

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Dawn of the Flick: The Doctors, Physicists, and Mathe...

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July 24th, 2012 By Ben Marks Early optical toys from the 19th century are expressions of our almost primal urge to animate the inanimate. Or so believes Richard Balzer , one of the foremost collectors of optical toys , magic lanterns , camera obscuras, and other objects that play tricks on the eye. For Balzer, these early optical toys, as well as our continued fascination with flipbooks, are part of a continuum that has culminated in the movies. “The quest for animation is very old,” he says. “Ca...

serra

25 Jul 2012

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Dawn of the Flick: The Doctors, Physicists, and Mathe...

http://collectorsweekly.com/artic...

July 24th, 2012 By Ben Marks Early optical toys from the 19th century are expressions of our almost primal urge to animate the inanimate. Or so believes Richard Balzer , one of the foremost collectors of optical toys , magic lanterns , camera obscuras, and other objects that play tricks on the eye. For Balzer, these early optical toys, as well as our continued fascination with flipbooks, are part of a continuum that has culminated in the movies. “The quest for animation is very old,” he says. “Ca...

waldokanto

25 Jul 2012

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Astronaut and physicist Sally Ride passed away this w...

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By Eclectablog on July 24, 2012 in LGBT THIS is how we treat our heroes? Astronaut and Stanford physicist Sally Ride passed away this week from pancreatic cancer. She was the first American* woman to go into space. My family has a small but important (to us) connection with Dr. Ride. When my daughter was in grade school, she had a project where they dressed as their heroes and, during an open house, played the role of their hero, answering questions and chatting with the parents that visited. My da...