Archive for April, 2010

by Celia Hippie

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Once a separate nation, Texas has recently been behaving more like an independent economic republic than a regular state. While it hasn’t been immune to the problems plaguing the nation, the Texas housing market, employment rate, and overall economic growth are relatively strong. Chalk some of this up to accidents of geology and geography. But Texan prosperity also reflects the conscious efforts of a once-parochial place to embrace globalization.

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Man Who Souled the World Trailer

Steve Rocco, the controversial godfather of street, led a cultural revolution during the early 1990s toppling the corporate giants who controlled the skateboard industry and ushering in the most degenerate, savage, innovative & entertaining era in the history of skateboarding. For better or worse his legacy shaped skateboarding as we know it today like no other.

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A one-eyed filmmaker is going to implant a camera in his eye to make a film from his point of view.ARob Spence, a documentary filmmaker from Canada, has been unable to use his right eye since it was damaged in a firearms accident as a child.AAfter wearing an eyepatch for many years, he recently got a prosthetic eye implanted - and decided he wanted to become what he calls an "Eyeborg" - a part-human, part-camera cyborg.A"I was looking at the small camera on my cellphone, and I got to thinking about the Bionic Man," he said in a recent video on his website.A"I want to turn my prosthetic eye into a wireless camera."

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Apple’s glorious iPad which is supposed to be the salvation of eduction is being banned from US campus’s because its wireless networking is so grim.AThe overpriced netbook without a keypad, is having difficulty being accepted at George Washington University and Princeton University because of network stability issues. Cornell University also says it is seeing connectivity problems with the device and is concerned about bandwidth overload.

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EMBIIMOB Training - The Blue Movements

EMBIIMOB is invading Chicago and they need your help for an art performance piece from Fargo…We posted the red movements earlier, now here are the blue.

This is happening April 30th at 5-pm at Caffe Baci (after NEXT and across the river) - check out their training page!

The Details:

Definition: "EMBIIMOB is a platform allowing artists and performers to participate in or create large spontaneous synchronized events. EMBIIMOB performers breathe life into an artist's work… experiencing it as it happens… not knowing what to expect or how it will end"

An EMBIIMOB Event has three Key elements:

-A series of pre - learned 16 count dance movements.
-The ability to transmit these movements and give verbal instruction to performers without the audiences knowledge.
-A huge crowd of performers willing to succumb to the commands , creating a remarkable experience for their audience and for themselves.

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Meltable Brain Recording Device

Scientists have developed a brain implant that essentially melts into place, snugly fitting to the brain’s surface. The technology could pave the way for better devices to monitor and control seizures, and to transmit signals from the brain past damaged parts of the spinal cord.

"These implants have the potential to maximize the contact between electrodes and brain tissue, while minimizing damage to the brain. They could provide a platform for a range of devices with applications in epilepsy, spinal cord injuries and other neurological disorders," said Walter Koroshetz, M.D., deputy director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of Health.

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Sign Language a 'foreign' language?

Twenty students are holding several animated small-group discussions, but no one in thisANorthern Illinois Universityclassroom utters a word.

Their fingers weave in complex patterns as they converse in American Sign Language, which the university has declared an official foreign language.

To the students, the new label is fitting: They say that American Sign Language is distinct from spoken English and that its coursework provides a new perspective akin to the cultural immersion they’d experience in French, Spanish or other traditional language classes.

"It shapes how you view the world around you," said Christine Theobold, a sophomore fromAStreamwood who is taking the most advanced sign class at NIU. "I guess it’s how you view the word 'foreign.'"

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