Welcome to Intelligent Design, the PopSci art department blog. Our first story brings you into the world of covers. The Future of Sports issue was quite unusual for us, bringing together both an unfamiliar image and an unfamiliar topic, and presented some unique challenges. The process, however, is pretty typical. in this film, we'll take you from concept to complete image and hopefully reveal just how much work goes into producing our unique 3-D CG images. Purists note: I've glossed over the typography part: we'll cover that in a future installment. Come back each Wednesday for upcoming stories which will include product reviews that you won't find in PopSci, movies, TV, books and the arts in general and of course more insider secrets. We hope you like what we're doing and we'd love to hear from you, about these stories and the magazine's design in general. Intelligent Design. The science behind the art. The art behind the science. In this installment, watch creative director Sam Syed's video explanation of all the details that go into making a good first impression.
I'm an artist.. This was a perfect art lesson.. in nut shell.. inspirational...Thanks ..France
Anyone out there that cares about the truth about polio and DDT surf the net. It takes some digging but soon you will find sites like www.squidoo.com/poliovaccineconnection and there are others with graphs that show the years of the rise and fall of DDT and Polio. The graphs placed on top of one another will give you chills at least they did me.. Also there is a lot of info concerning the argument that if DDT is the cause of polio why didn't our animals get it.. Well they did! They developed all the symtoms that people did. It just wasn't published as such and was kept quiet for obvious reasons..
The insecticide, DDT, has never stopped being used in places like India, Africa and other Malaria problem areas. While researching the connection between DDT and polio I came accross the info. that the U.S. had recently manufactured 9 tons of DDT.. This info came to my attention about 1998.. Knowing DDT had been illegal for many years in the U.S. I wanted to know what the heck they were doing with it. I couldn't find any info on the internet so I typed in where are the recent polio cases.. Bingo.. India, Africa,ect. and yes they used the DDT that was manufactured in the U.S. Seems the choice was made for polio over malaria.. very tough choice.. except polio is not spead from personal contact . Malaria is, via the mosquitoe. Check it out. .France
French philosopher Gaston Bachelard wrote in 1960 that “sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms.” Recent research agrees, finding that some sleepers shriek or even gorge themselves without knowing it. These sleep-disorder sufferers experience neural glitches that mix conscious and unconscious states. Scientists are now searching for the physiological underpinnings in hopes of developing better drug therapies. Launch our gallery of the most bizarre parasomnias here.
My father was asleep on the sofa while my mother and myself watched tv.. Suddenly he sat straight up and called out "Mama". My mother asked what happened and he said he dreamed he saw his mother's face and she was looking and smiling at him. We lived in Idaho and my father's mother lived in New York. A short while later my father recieved a phone call and was told that his mother had passed away at the same time as he dreamed her smiling at him.. Because of the tv program we were able to fix the time... This was an unexpected death as my grandmother was thought to be in good health. No one's opinion can cover these kinds of dreams with the explanation that we have experienced the images and information somewhere in the past. I have had a few of these same sort of dreams.. Has anyone else had this type of dream experience? I would be interested in hearing about them.. smiles France
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