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While some people were hard at work during this Summer, some others seemed to have had a pretty good time. No need to look too far, our dear friend #da-eYe had a wonderful Summer break as he took some vacation at the beach (no word on the location though). As you can see on the postcard he sent me and I recevied on the last day of August, he enjoyed the beach (and most of all the sand) and the sun but he apparently also had another activity like the four three-word message suggests… Or maybe it was once again to pay homage to Serge Gainsbourg‘s famous song? Anyway, we don’t want to know all the details of da-eYe’s private life (really, you don’t) but we know one thing for sure: a big event will take place very soon and we already know he will be celebrating the way it should be. And you will…⇒ READ MORE

You know how much I like working with kids: Kids coloring the World of Sama in 2010 and Kids coloring da-eYe! in 2011. Watching kids drawing is a magical thing and it sometimes (often) reveals unexpected creativity when they give free rein to their imagination. Only problem: what they draw is most of the time very far from what they actually want to depict. Hopefully, Garrett Miller provides an awesome solution. Miller is a designer, developer and photographer living in Washington D.C. and he created Imaginawesomed. ‘Kids have the ability to come up with some pretty amazing things, but not always the ability to draw exactly what they were imagining. I’m here to help make those drawings come a little bit closer to reality.’ And the result is simply… Awesome!  “Bad Rabbit” – A Chinese man is angry because a rabbit ate his carrot, by Naomi, age 7. Check Miller’s website…⇒ READ MORE

CERN built the world’s largest grid computing resource and now anyone with Internet connectivity and a computer can participate by helping run more simulation of particle physics. ‘Those who want to volunteer will download an x86 Sun Microsystems virtualization software package called VirtualBox, which runs the Monte Carlo simulations on home computers. An open-source distributed computing platform called Boinc to manages the Test4Theory tasks. Boinc is also used in distributed computing projects like searches for extraterrestrial intelligence or protein folding.’ If you want to join the hunt for Higgs boson, check LHC@home. Now another good news: the #SETI Institute announced it has raised enough money to bring the Allen Telescope Array back online! ‘The SETI Institute is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to scientific research, education and public outreach [...] The mission of the SETI Institute is to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in…⇒ READ MORE

J’ai évoqué le #Steampunk il y a quelques temps déjà (trop longtemps manifestement…) dans mon article : The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss. La très inspirante exposition de #Claire Nouvian au Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle de Paris m’avait donnée l’occasion de faire allusion (certes brièvement) à l’univers magnifique de Jules Verne et son Nautilus à bord duquel je m’imaginais observer avec émerveillement les improbables mais pourtant si extraordinaires créatures des profondeurs (Tuscaridium Cygneum et autre Himantolophus Paucifilosus) présentées lors de cette exposition… Trois ans plus tard, il était temps d’évoquer à nouveau le Steampunk. Je pourrais en parler pendant des heures tant cet univers est riche, varié et hautement créatif.  L’époque Victorienne et les gadgets anachroniques inspirent beaucoup mes créations ; et si mes tenues sont parfois plus proches du gothique que du Steampunk, je n’en reste pas moins fascinée par cet univers et ce depuis plus d’une décennie. Avant de publier un article plus complet sur le sujet (et probablement en anglais…⇒ READ MORE

While we are fighting on Planet Earth for sometimes very unimportant reasons (and we don’t fight enough for some other very important issues), a storm may be brewing above our heads. A solar storm, even a severe one. Last week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has predicted a state of maximum solar activity that may strike Earth, causing total darkness this decade. From the International Business Times website: ‘Forecasters and operators at the agency are keeping a close eye as the sun enters a phase of activity that may cause severe disruption of global power grids, airline communication, military satellites and even GPS applications on mobile phones and cars [...] The NOAA has mentioned that similar solar activity was also seen during the year 1859 when a geomagnetic storm triggered by the solar eruptions induced currents that surged through telegraph cables, the electrical systems of the time.’ On Reuters…⇒ READ MORE