Notas del Exilio 1 - Links Curiosos

Curiosidad # 1 - Impactantes Imagenes de Polen Tomados Con Microscopio de Electrones

Este articulo del Telegraph tiene una excelente fotogaleria de imagenes electronicas del polen de diferentes plantas.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/picture-galleries/7606811/Hayfever-sufferers-know-your-enemy-Scanning-Electron-Microscope-pictures-of-grains-of-pollen.html

Hay fever sufferers can now see the face of their invisible enemy - thanks to these Scanning Electron Microscope images of pollen grains. A Swiss scientists named Martin Oeggerli, who uses the name Micronaut for his art, uses a Scanning Electron Microscope in his cellar to capture images of pollen grains. This picture shows a grain of willow pollen wedged between flower petals

Gracias a Boing Boing por el link. Articulo aqui:

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/05/grains-of-pollen-as.html

Ademas, vean el transfondo de tomar estas microimagenes. No es con una camara de $5 de Walgreens y sin preparacion. Requiere conocimiento y practica. Mucha practica...

http://www.micronaut.ch/sidemenu/show/technology_sem/home

http://www.micronaut.ch/sidemenu/show/technology_preparation/home

http://www.micronaut.ch/sidemenu/show/technology_coloration/home

Curiosidad # 2 - Estatuas Griegas a Colores

Llega de Kottke esta nota relacionada a la practica historica de las estatuas griegas estar pintadas en colores vivos. En el pasado el Partenon debio estar lleno de color, no estar todo de blanco, marmol y yeso.

http://kottke.org/10/08/painted-greek-statues

El articulo original es de Harvard Science. Aqui esta la referencia:

http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/foundations/articles/colorizing-classic-statues-returns-them-antiquity

“Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity” features full-size color reconstructions that challenge the popular notion of classical white marble sculpture, illustrating that ancient sculpture was far more colorful, complex, and exuberant than is often thought.
The reconstructions are the result of more than two decades of painstaking research by a pair of married German archaeologists, Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann. The exhibition was organized by the Stiftung Archäologie and the Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek of Munich, Germany, and has already been shown in a number of European cities. The Sackler is its first U.S. venue.
The Brinkmanns used various methods to detect the almost invisible traces of paint on the surfaces of the sculptures they studied. Among these was the use of raking light to reveal incised details as well as subtle patterns caused by the uneven weathering of different paints on the stone surface; ultraviolet (UV) light to bring out slight surface differences; and techniques such as X-ray fluorescence and infrared spectroscopy to analyze the types of pigments employed.
While not the first to notice the traces of color on ancient sculpture — scholars were arguing the case for painted classical sculpture as early as 1815 — the Brinkmanns are the first to bring the full armament of scientific equipment to the task.
The results are spectacular and reveal much about the way ancient Greeks and Romans viewed their world. Take, for example, the life-size figure of a Trojan archer from the temple of Aphaia on the Greek island of Aegina (excavated in 1811 and acquired by King Ludwig of Bavaria). The figure wears a shirt and leggings covered all over with an intricate red, yellow, blue, and green diamond pattern. Over this he wears a bright yellow vest inscribed with lions and griffins. A tall yellow hat with a flower pattern completes the costume.

Vivia bajo la Tierra. No habia oido esto antes, aunque ha estado circulando la web desde el 2007. Otros articulos que mencionan esto:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/arts/design/14unge.html

http://io9.com/5616498/ultraviolet-light-reveals-how-ancient-greek-statues-really-looked

http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2008/06/16/gods-in-color-painted-sculpture-of-classical-antiquity/

http://helleneste.wordpress.com/2010/08/26/ancient-greek-statues-now-in-color/

Curiosidad # 3 - Robot Sparrow, otro webcomic

http://www.agent44.com/comics/robotsparrow/robotsparrow.htm

Habia posteado este webcomic de 10 paginas en mi FB durante mi primer turno aca en Biloxi, MS. Cobra resonancia estos dias porque aca estoy lejos de casa de nuevo. Triste de no poder haber asistido al funeral de mi suegro Angel, a quien tenia en muy alta estima. Tenia 98 a/nos. Escribo y trabajo, para no darle casco a su muerte que aunque esperada es como una espina en el corazon.

Bueno, estoy triste y en aceptacion. Cierro esta Nota 1 aqui, con Natural Blues de Moby. Aprovecho el hiato forzado para actualizar el blog y trabajar otros asuntos de la oficina de Puerto Rico. Por si falla el embed

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivtKcM1DGeY)

Ooh Lordy, troubles so hard

Ooh Lordy, troubles so hard

Don't nobody know my troubles but God

Don't nobody know my troubles but God

Ooh Lordy, troubles so hard

Ooh Lordy, troubles so hard

Don't nobody know my troubles but God

Don't nobody know my troubles but God

Ooh Lordy, troubles so hard

Ooh Lordy, troubles so hard

Don't nobody know my troubles but God

Don't nobody know my troubles but God

Went down the hill

Other day

My soul got happy

and stayed all day

Went down the hill

Other day

My soul got happy

and stayed all day

Ooh Lordy, troubles so hard

Ooh Lordy, troubles so hard

Don't nobody know my troubles but God

Don't nobody know my troubles but God

Ooh Lordy, troubles so hard

Ooh Lordy, troubles so hard

Don't nobody know my troubles but God

Don't nobody know my troubles but God

Went in the room

Didn't stay long

Looked on the bed and,

Brother was dead

Went in my room

Didn't stay long

Looked on the bed and

Brother was dead

Ooh Lordy, troubles so hard

Ooh Lordy, troubles so hard

Don't nobody know my troubles but God

Don't nobody know my troubles but God

Ooh Lordy, troubles so hard

Ooh Lordy, troubles so hard

Don't nobody know my troubles but God

Don't nobody know my troubles but God

Transgender Handwriting + Microbiology

(courtesy of Nikon - James Hayden - Anglerfish Ovary)

First Nikon, now Olympus
Here are some great microscopic photos. Nikon and Olympus sponsor annual microscopic photograhic competitions. I already mentioned Nikon's at . . .
http://alcantarillaalquimica.blogspot.com/2009/10/stunning-microscopic-photography.html
. . .boing boing now linked to the Olympus one:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/30/beautiful-microscope.html
http://www.olympusbioscapes.com/gallery/2009/
liked this video
http://www.olympusbioscapes.com/gallery/2009/3.html
Amateur microbiologists, wastewater operators or other lovers of the Lilliputian agents rejoice at the beauty too small for us to see with a naked eye.

Then this an alternate from Nikon
http://www.microscopyu.com/smallworld/gallery/contests/2009/index.html

Pseudoscience - Graphology
This article, which I found without looking, is rather interesting because it establishes that gender can be usually be guessed with handwriting. Maybe is because what we are hardwired to do. You hang with girls you get girly handwriting (or something shallow like that). I like writing in block capitals because it is clearer than freehand.

I do understand that transsexuals would like to change their writing to be more 'feminine'. That is the point of their blending. To be fully a woman (or a man), up to the little details of handwriting. Going against what is taught on years of human development. Here is the article:
http://www.tsroadmap.com/physical/handwriting/index.html

On this issue I only have a single question. If I was created a woman, trapped inside a man's body shouldn't I be able to write like a woman naturally? I know it is a shallow question. You act like the rest. A Chinese story indicates the story of the king that proved the natural language was Chinese by keeping a new born baby in a cage without contact from the rest of the world (or so he thought) and seeing the language he spoke was Chinese. His story had a flaw, the child must communicate his needs for food and water in the language his keepers would understand, and that language was conveniently, Chinese. If Incans did the test the kid would speak Incan.

Prejudice is a bitch. We put it in all we do, we even create phony science like Graphology or Phrenology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology) to predict people's behavior.

Here is an article against graphology:
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Tests/grapho.html

Anyway, here is the article's suggestion to write more femininely:
http://www.tsroadmap.com/physical/handwriting/feminine-handwriting-tips.html

The best general advice is to slow down while writing. Here are 25 other helpful suggestions:

1. Stay relaxed!
2. Don’t grip the writing instrument too tightly.
3. Don’t press too hard.
4. Always have a pad of paper, blotter, or other flat surface under the paper. Do not write with a sheet of paper directly on a desk surface.
5. Write from the wrist or elbow instead of the fingers.
6. Don’t use fine point pens or mechanical pencils.
7. Use a medium ball point pen, felt tip marker, or fountain pen with a medium to heavy nib.
8. Consistency is key—all letters should be uniform in shape and size.
9. All letters should have the same slight amount of slanting.
10. Write more slowly than you usually do.
11. Write a little larger than you usually do.
12. Space your letters out a bit more.
13. Avoid sharp angles.
14. Think smooth, not spiky.
15. Use slightly curved instead of straight lines.
16. Make arched letters convex, not concave.
17. Make letters with circles more open and loopy.
18. Don't lift your pen off the page when forming a letter, except for t and x, and when dotting your i and j.
19. Use a very tiny circle to dot any i or j and for commas, periods, exclamation points, and question marks.
20. Add slight flourishes to all letters with tails.
21. Add a slight hook to all letters that end on a downstroke.
22. Double back more on letters that require that movement.
23. Printing instead of using cursive may be easier.
24. Don’t use block capitals.
25. Don’t exchange any letters that should be lowercase for capitals.

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