#experimentation
Aspirin crystals.
Computer models to cut down on animal experiments
Advanced computer-based models provide an alternative way to study the complex skulls of lizards and snakes that are difficult to research in living animals.
This model was created by scientists at the University of Aberdeen, UCL, University of Hull and the University of Adelaide. It shows an Argentine black and white tegu lizard biting on some food, and predicts the bite forces of the living animal very accurately.
It was produced based on high-resolution CT scans, detailed dissections and motion capture of living animals.
Not only could the models help reduce the need to experiment using live animals, but the data from them helps us understand how these animals use their skull and jaws in feeding.
Top image: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen
Model credit: Dr Flora Gröning
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Hanako Murakami, “ANTICAMERA (OF THE EYE) #P4”(detail), 2016, silver print by enlarger, 175 x 123 cm © Hanako Murakami
HANAKO MURAKAMI, ANTICAMERA (OF THE EYE)
Exhibition Apr 9 — May 07, 2016 at TAKA ISHII, Paris Fair Exhibitor
Taka Ishii Gallery, 3-10-11 B1 Sendagaya Shibuya-ku, 151-0051 Tokyo
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Taka Ishii Gallery is pleased to present “ANTICAMERA(OF THE EYE)”, a solo exhibition by Hanako Murakami. This will be her first solo exhibition with the gallery and feature new works inspired by autochromes, a color photograph process from the early days of the medium.
Many of Hanako Murakami’s previous works were also produced based on her in-depth research of historical media, such as alternative photographic techniques or letterpress printing. Each of these series of works were accompanied by a text written by Murakami and addressing anecdotes from the original days of mechanical reproduction technology and her own experiences. Her works thus produce situations in which truth and fiction and historical fact and contemporary hypothesis are knotted together. In “APPARITION (OF THE SUN),” for example, she reproduced images resulting from an Internet search for the word “sun” and reproduced them as daguerrotypes. By capturing images of the sun with its flares and sunspots, which did not exist in the mid-19th century, when the daguerrotype was introduced as the world’s first commercialized photographic technique, she created aberrant images in which past and present technologies intersect. The work is, on one hand, an attempt to send photographic images, which have become infinitely reproducible as digital data, back to its ancestral past. On the other, it simultaneously addresses the notion of veracity essential to photography and film to function as a magnetic field in which the beginning and end of a medium are looped in coexistence.
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About to test these gouache paints!
Your whumpee has ugly scars around their non-consensual body modifications from where they had feverishly tried to claw them off.
El Experimento de Stanley Milgram fue realizado para explicar algunos de los horrores de los campos de concentración de la segunda guerra mundial, en donde judíos, gitanos, homosexuales, eslavos y otros enemigos del estado fueron masacrados por los nazis.
El psicólogo Stanley Milgram creó un “generador de descarga” eléctrica con 30 interruptores. El interruptor estaba claramente marcado en incrementos de 15 voltios, oscilando entre los 15 y 450 voltios.
También puso etiquetas que indicaban el nivel de descarga, tales como “Moderado” (de 75 a 120 voltios) y “Fuerte” (de 135 a 180 voltios). Los interruptores de 375 a 420 voltios fueron marcados “Peligro: Descarga Grave” y los dos niveles más altos de 435 a 450 feron marcados “XXX”.
El “generador de descarga” era en realidad de mentira y sólo producía sonido cuando se pulsaban los interruptores.
Se reclutaron 40 sujetos (hombres) por correo y por un anuncio en el periódico. Creían que iban a participar de un experimento sobre la “memoria y el aprendizaje”.
En la prueba, a cada sujeto se le informó claramente que se le iba a pagar por ir y que conservaría el pago “independientemente de lo que pasara después de su llegada”.
Luego, el sujeto conoció a un “experimentador”, la persona que dirigía el experimento, y a otra persona que se la indicó como otro sujeto. El otro sujeto era en realidad un cómplice que actuó como sujeto. Se trataba de un contador de 47 años.
Los dos sujetos (el sujeto verdadero y el cómplice) sacaron un papel para saber quién iba a ser un “maestro” y quién un “aprendiz”. El sorteo fue falso, ya que el sujeto verdadero siempre obtendría el papel de “maestro”.
El maestro vio que el aprendiz estaba atado a una silla y tenía electrodos. Luego, el sujeto fue ubicado en otra habitación delante del generador de descarga, sin poder ver al aprendiz.
Pero que les parece que mejor veamos este video y asi entendamos el experimento…
Small scale texture studies
Materials:
Top- broken glass and acrylic paint on canvas
Bottom- foil, wood, leaves, straw, rubber, string and acrylic paint on canvas
Both 8 x 8 inches
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If humans walk zig zag when drunk, then crabs walk straight.
from the VSW Soibelman Syndicate News Agency Archive
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Begotten
Whump Prompts #48: Self-Sacrifice
CW:kidnapping, illness, curses, magic whump, self-harm, torture, experimentation, inhuman whumpees
Experimentation:
Whumper is draining whumpee A of blood for an experiment; whumpee B steps in so whumper can take their blood instead
Whumper has been experimenting heavily on whumpee A; whumpee B sees that A is declining quickly and offers themself for whumper’s experiment
Heroes and villains:
Villain has kidnapped sidekick and is torturing him; hero takes sidekick’s place, knowing that sidekick can succeed him as hero
Sidekick saves hero from villain’s attack and gets gravely injured; hero snaps but has to decide between attacking villain and taking care of sidekick
Villain kidnaps civilian and threatens hero with civilian’s death; hero rescues civilian knowing that it’s all a trap and villain just wants hero dead
Supervillain orders villain to kill hero; villain makes the fatal choice to save hero instead
Immortality:
Whumpee becomes a royal bodyguard; when whumper kidnaps the royal to execute them, whumpee volunteers instead, but neither the royal nor whumper know that he’s immortal
Whumper threatens whumpee’s team; immortal whumpee makes a deal: whumper will kill him once for every team member that was saved; only whumpee knows that he can only come back to life a certain number of times
Magic/curses:
Inhuman whumpee has their scales/feathers/blood etc. harvested for a spell to find others like them; whumpee decides to kill themself so the magic won’t work
Whumpee has been cursed and is very sick; caretaker can’t bear to see whumpee suffer and manages to shift the curse so they’re the one dying instead
Team whump:
Whumpee is on the run with a team and for whatever reason their affiliation with the group puts everyone in extreme danger; whumpee gives themself up to whumper to protect everyone
Whumper gives whumpee an enchanted dagger, telling him that his soul is the only thing that will save his team; whumpee stabs himself to save everyone
“Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the
secret of life in your pants and forgetting it’s there and sitting
down on it”
– E.E. Cummings
[Mauve Intersection, Mark Rothko]
• As one of the most innovative poets of his time, Cummings experimented with poetic form and language to create a distinct personal style. A typical Cummings poem is spare and precise, employing a few key words eccentrically placed on the page. Some of these words were invented by Cummings, often by combining two common words into a new synthesis. More: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/e-e-cummings
• One of the preeminent artists of his generation, Mark Rothko is closely identified with the New York school, a circle of painters that emerged during the 1940s as a new collective voice in American art. During a career that spanned five decades, he created a new and impassioned form of abstract painting. More: https://www.nga.gov/features/mark-rothko.html
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Fic: Experimentation [Epilogue]
fandom: pitch perfect
pairing: bechloe
disclaimer: characters don’t belong to me. if they did, they’d have been married at the end of pp1 and i wouldn’t have had to write this.
rating: f for fluff
a/n: Is it poetic to post the final chapter of something exactly seven years to the day that you posted the first one?
I love you awesome nerds. ❤️
Ca fait un moment que j'ai pour idée de proposer des thèmes/skins complet. Ca donnerait peut-être des choses comme ça, qui expérimente dans un équilibre pas évident entre nouveautés/conserver les habitudes. A explorer!
Ceci est un début de projet, merci de ne pas vous en servir comme maquette ♥
