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...wild. The cephalopod's reign as the Greta Garbo of the undersea world, however, is over: last week two Japanese scientists?Tsunemi Kubodera and Kyoichi Mori?published the first photographs of a giant squid in action, captured by a robotic camera 900 m below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. For obsessive squid hunters, it's the scientific equivalent of Captain Ahab finally getting his white sperm whale...
...many of them fatal and irreversible?on all levels. Although there must be a thorough accounting of what went wrong and why, I beg the media to focus on the kindness and strength of the human spirit that we are seeing now. Just as with 9/11 and the Indian Ocean tsunami, good can come out of disaster. We have some tough choices ahead. I pray that we make the right ones. Jane LaBreche Hebert Friendswood, Texas...
...additional thrusters to counteract them. The thrusters were added, and the design change made all the difference. More recently, the lab was planning the less publicized Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)--a twin-satellite pas de deux designed to measure Earth's gravitational field and its effect on ocean currents. A critical step was eliminating any wobble between the ships. J.P.L. staff members had been working with engineers at Stanford University on a thruster that could nudge a spacecraft with boiled-off helium. It was perfect for GRACE's needs. "At J.P.L.," says Rob Manning, Mars program manager...
...before I started and these negative things start lifting and this whole positive sense of bliss starts growing. On a set or even working with really hard-core producers, it becomes easier to work with people. Everyone starts looking like a friend instead of an enemy because of the ocean you dive into with meditation, the inner knowingness you achieve. The negativity going away helps the enjoyment and inspiration start to flow...
...image as it traverses the sky, is largely static, but even as a still image, the atmosphere of the work (set behind dark curtains in its own chilly environment) is affecting. Another film installation at the center of the exhibit belongs to visiting professor Tishan Hsu, and depicts ocean waves and bird feathers crashing into one another and propelling off the screen. A tour of the exhibit would appropriately end with a look at Burden Visiting Professor of Photography Deborah Bright’s two “Glacial Erratic” pictures, showing the same rock photographed with...