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Nov 18 2010
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Back where the web began: matter, antimatter

txt: CERN: How the web began

The first proposal for the World Wide Web (WWW) was made at CERN by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, and further refined by him and Robert Cailliau in 1990.

txt: Antimatter atoms produced and trapped at CERN

Antimatter – or the lack of it – remains one of the biggest mysteries of science. Matter and its counterpart are identical except for opposite charge, and they annihilate when they meet. At the Big Bang, matter and antimatter should have been produced in equal amounts. However, we know that our world is made up of matter: antimatter seems to have disappeared. To find out what has happened to it, scientists employ a range of methods to investigate whether a tiny difference in the properties of matter and antimatter could point towards an explanation.

links:
- CERN – European Organization for Nuclear Research is the world’s leading laboratory for particle physics. It has its headquarters in Geneva.
- The ALPHA Collaboration
- CERN Courier: Keeping antihydrogen: the ALPHA trap

img: General views of the ALPHA experiment; – CERN PhotoLab

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Oct 13 2010
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ArtVerona: Independents e TheatreArtVerona

link: www.artverona.it ArtVerona 2010 – Verona (Fiera) 14/18 ottobre 2010

txt: Artverona – Indipendents

Per la prima volta in una fiera d’arte moderna e contemporanea saranno ospitate – in una specifica area riservata – associazioni, fondazioni, collettivi e spazi no-profit presenti sul territorio nazionale, che si distinguono per le loro peculiari attività di ricerca e sperimentazione in ambito contemporaneo.
Independents è un progetto ideato da Fuoribiennale per la VI edizione di ArtVerona, in cui le realtà invitate hanno a disposizione uno spazio nel cuore dei due padiglioni della fiera, per tutta la durata della manifestazione.

txt: Artverona – TheatreArtVerona

ArtVerona inaugura una nuova sezione, nata dalla proficua collaborazione con il Teatro Stabile di Verona ed il suo direttore Paolo Valerio. Tra le proposte della rassegna, sabato 16 ottobre al Teatro Nuovo Antonio Albanese proporrà Recital, che racconta, con corrosiva comicità e ritmo serrato, un mondo popolato da personaggi tipici del nostro tempo; domenica 17 ottobre la compagnia rivelazione Babilonia Teatri, vincitrice del Premio Speciale Ubu 2009, incontrerà il pubblico nello Spazio Aletti in Fiera, all’interno del fitto programma di approfondimenti FaceToFace, e alle 21, al Teatro Nuovo di Verona, presenterà una summa antologica del loro lavoro con The Best of Babilonia.

img: THEATRE ART VERONA The best of Babilonia Teatri – Teatro Nuovo Verona

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Oct 03 2010
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Venice is not the billboard you want to see?

links:
- www.veniceinperil.com
- www.theartnewspaper.com – Ads of Sighs: The huge ads proliferating in Venice, now also lit up by night, are not bringing in huge money and stretch the application of the law to the point of illegality
- www.comune.venezia.it – Behind the billboards there is a great work .. a fronte del venire meno dei finanziamenti dello Stato, che pur ha il dovere di aiutare Venezia per la tutela del patrimonio cittadino, Comune e Soprintendenza sono non soltanto disponibili, ma interessati a recuperare e utilizzare tutte le forme possibili di sostegno alle istituzioni.
- www.guardian.co.uk – Venice’s historic buildings ‘violated’ by billboards, say cultural experts: Leading architects and museums slam Italian government for allowing advertisements to cover world-famous palazzi
- www.nytimes.com – Behind Venice’s Ads, the Restoration of Its Heritage: The view today, however, is more likely to be a gargantuan billboard on a blue sky of tarpaulin touting Bulgari or Coca-Cola.
- www.ilsole24ore.com – Palazzo Ducale is back: No one who really cares about this town may have prejudices: sponsorships are necessary, we can’t do without them..
- corrieredelveneto.corriere.it – Venezia, agreement with the private Committees: restorations without billboards

img: oddtag on flickr

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Sep 05 2010
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Comoda_mente 2010

Comoda_mente 2010: La leggerezza
Vittorio Veneto (Treviso)
2/5 settembre 2010

txt: www.comodamente.it – Il festival

Il festival Comoda_mente nasce per fondere in un unico messaggio i temi della riqualificazione urbana e della cultura contemporanea e offrire quel nutrimento culturale vivo che ormai è diventato un bisogno socialmente percepito.
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Tre giorni, quindi, per scomodare il conosciuto e prendersi una rivincita su tutto quello che facilmente definisce il Reale scartando il Possibile, comodamente seduti in un avvolgente salotto urbano.

img: Comodamente 2010. Storie e immagini – Foto di Francesco Nonino on flickr.com

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May 13 2010
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Fake Venice

txt: Interview With Andrew Potter: Travel and the Search for Authenticity – www.worldhum.com

For instance, let’s say the absolute fake is going to some Italian restaurant in some fake Venice in Vegas. That’s the absolute fake. Here in Toronto, where I live, you can go down to little Italy and go to an authentic Italian restaurant, probably run by real Italians. And then you could actually go to Venice. And once you’re there, you can either go to the tourist traps they have all set up for tourists, or if you’re really lucky you know a local who will actually make you a dinner in Venice, which you would call the epitome of authenticity.

So all these things have varying degrees of authenticity to them and, not coincidentally, they have varying degrees of priciness attached to them. And so, and the ultimate is to get something that nobody can actually buy at all and that would be having somebody who lives in Venice, a friend of a friend, cook you a meal. Which nobody could even buy on the open market. Which makes it completely authentic.

img: Evelina Deicmane: Season sorrow – oddtag on flickr.com

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