NYC Tunnels

February 21st, 2013 | Space

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Alien Caverns run deep beneath New York City somewhere near Grand Central Station and Park Avenue.  Patrick Cashin of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority recently captured the NYC Tunnels in the harrowing photographs seen here.

Do they look somewhat familiar?
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Here’s a screenshot from Prometheus:

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The NYC Tunnel project was first started back in 2006 but it won’t be completed until 2019.

“The tunnels extend from Sunnyside, Queens, to Grand Central, routing 24 trains per hour at peak capacity. That’s an amazing 162,000 passenger trips to and from Grand Central per day. These images by New Yorks’ Metropolitan Transportation Authority show the progress as of February 12, 2013.”

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“Progress continues on the East Side Access project as of February 12, 2013.

This photo shows work on the caverns underneath Grand Central Terminal that will house a future concourse for arriving and departing Long Island Rail Road trains.
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“This photo shows work on tunnels leading into caverns underneath Grand Central Terminal that will house a future concourse for arriving and departing Long Island Rail Road trains.”

I can’t imagine what it would be like to work in this environment on a daily basis.

Find more from the Flickr site.

-RSB

[via Gizmodo]

The Sun from Alan Friedman

February 19th, 2013 | Space

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“A hibernation project… a warm weather sun set aside to work on during the cold, sunless days of January. Captured June 10, 2012, completed today.
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“Not a mouse, of course, but a mammoth solar filament stretched across the sun today. Filaments are prominences from a different point of view… gigantic splashes of hydrogen plasma seen in front of the disk of the sun rather than against the background of space.”

The Sun 10 (Pastoral Sun)

“The sun is quiet in late August… perhaps on vacation, like everyone else”

Alan Friedman is responsible for these incredible High-Definition photographs of the Sun.  He shoots the images from his backyard in downtown Buffalo with a setup that looks like this:

Alan Friedman Camera

Of course, no images of the sun come out of the camera with such dazzling precision and color.  Alan performs days of post-processing to give the photographs the finished look.
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 You can read more about the process at his blog.

-RSB

[via Visual News]

Happy Valentine’s Day – Music from Giraffage

February 14th, 2013 | Brain

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Happy Valentine’s Day everybody.  I hope you’re finding the love you need.  Here are some tracks from producer and mix-master Giraffage from Alpha Pup Records.   Charlie Yin, a 23 year-old from San Francisco, is the man behind the name.  He has a bright future.

Many think this holiday is about Tracks 1 (Close to Me), 2 (Thinking about you), or maybe 8 (Undress U), but we know it’s all about Track 3 (Money)!

 

And how about a bonus track to send you out on a swooning note (from Selebrities):

-RSB

[via Gorilla vs Bear]

New Paper Anatomy from Lisa Nilsson

February 13th, 2013 | Brain

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Lisa Nilsson has returned for an encore in Paper Anatomy made from the extremely tedious process of Quilling.  I wrote about her work in the past, and here’s an excerpt:

“She created these masterpieces by meticulously rolling and shaping narrow strips of Japanese mulberry paper in a technique called paper filigree or quilling.  As you can imagine, each section takes several weeks to complete.”

This time around she features a canine cut right down the middle.  An interesting note from Lisa’s site is that “The peach-colored shape located where the brain meets the sinuses is the olfactory bulb. This structure is forty times bigger in dogs than in us and enables dogs to sense smell to a degree one hundred thousand to one million times greater than humans.”

The second image is a sagittal view of an angel with an ornate circular background.  It was apparently inspired by Fra Angelico’s Annunciatory Angel (seen below).  

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And I bet you can’t guess what the last 2 images represent… Praying Hands.  The section passes through the large knuckles at the bases of the thumbs.
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It certainly takes a unique personality to have the patience for this kind of work.
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 It will be exciting to see where she goes from here.
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-RSB

Radiologists Can’t Find a Gorilla – Selective Attention

February 11th, 2013 | Brain

Before reading this post, watch the 2 videos below:

If you’re like 50% of the people who watch the first video, you did not notice a gorilla pounding his chest in the middle of the scene.  And if you are already familiar with that one, the second video can trick you in a new way.  The basic idea of selective attention is that individuals have a tendency to process information from only one part of the environment with the exclusion of other parts.  This can be extremely important in every day life.  Consider for instance, you are driving through an intersection, and you are only looking for other cars that might hit you.
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While focusing on the cars, you may miss seeing a kid crossing on his bicycle.

And even more striking evidence for the importance of selective attention has recently come out of the Wolfe Lab at Harvard, it was demonstrated that radiologists may also suffer from this phenomenon at some level. The radiologists were given the image below…

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and were asked to search for cancerous nodules in the image. Surprisingly, 83% of the professionally trained doctors didn’t notice a size-able gorilla shaking its arm at them.

This effect worked because cancerous nodules will show up as white circles on the image, so they are “inattentionally blind” to the black gorilla — the same reason you may have missed the gorilla in the video.
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Here’s how one commenter broke it down:

“I’m a radiologist. Air on xray/CT is black. The gorilla in this CT image is black. Black things in the lungs usually have no clinical significance.
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Cancer is white. Pneumonia is white. Acute disease (other than a collapsed lung) is white. A collapsed lung is not in this location. While the “fact” that all the radiologists missed the gorilla may be shocking to lay people, the reality is that, given appearance/location/etc in this “experiment”, it just doesn’t matter.”

Gaining a better understanding of how our brain processes information can hopefully lead to safety nets that prevent mistakes.

-RSB

Earth’s Brain from Hector Garrido

February 7th, 2013 | Brain, Space

Earth's Brain - Hector Garrido

El árbol de agua (The Water Tree)

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Animal durmiente (Animal Sleeping)

Bifurcaciones

 

Bifurcaciones (Bifurcations)

Caminos de agua

Caminos de agua (Water Ways)

Cementerio fractal

Cementerio fractal (Fractal Cemetery)

El laberinto del Minotauro

El laberinto del Minotauro (The Minotaur’s Labyrinth)

Huellas de gigante

Huellas de gigante (Giant Footprints)

Isla arbolada

Isla arbolada (Wooded Island)

Río doble

Río doble (Twin River)

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Sopetón (Abruptly)

“Our world should be called Water not Earth” – Hector Garrido

As we continue our exploration for water on Mars, I thought it would be nice to share Spanish photographer Hector Garrido’s aerial photographs of the effects of water on Earth.  Most planetary scientists make the claim that liquid water is a necessary component for the creation of life as we know it.  The biochemical reactions that sustain life need a fluid to work, so even ice and water vapor won’t do the trick. In a liquid, molecules can dissolve and necessary chemical reactions can occur.  It is for this reason that NASA searches the vastness of space for evidence of liquid water.

And in regards to these images, Hector Garrido has done an exceptional job capturing the beauty from above.  Oscar Wilde famously wrote “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.” The carved out soil from these photographs looks eerily similar to the sulci and gyri of the human brain.  It’s fascinating to see biological patterns mirrored at different levels of life.

For more from Hector Garrido, check out his website.

-RSB

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