Just imagine the possibilities….SCOTCH TAPE MAN! The super hero who produces radiation by unwinding.
Researchers have shown that rapidly unwinding a roll of Scotch tape inside a vacuum generates not only visible light but also enough x-rays to image a human finger.
From http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/22157/
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Entries from October 2008
October 26, 2008
Scotch Tape Radiation
October 19, 2008
Dance Theatre…
Hentyle brought me to my first dance theatre performance on Friday. From my lenses….it was erm..different. I liked the genre, but didn’t have much of a reaction to the piece.
The production was by Moroccan-Flemish choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, titled Myth. It was a physical exploration of archetypal mythological characters, a story telling through dance is as much [...]
October 9, 2008
Bye Bye shouck.com…for now
I was flipping through some of my old posts on shouck.com the other day, namely because its webhosting plan had officially expired and I wanted to see whether or not it was still “live.” It could take a few days before it’s cleared from the caches. I also noticed that it dropped on the google [...]
October 6, 2008
Noh in Los Angeles
I saw one of the most stunning productions of Madama Butterfly to date. It’s Robert Wilson’s LA Opera Madama Butterfly.
I went into it bracing myself for a nap. It’s such a famous opera and I’ve heard Un Bel Di an umpteen number of times, and in fact, ask anyone about Puccini’s Madama Butterfly and they’ll [...]
October 3, 2008
My first time
Indulge me a little.
So, after a crazy day which started at 10am (hey, I’m a student) with a meeting about the chinese music industry, followed by lunch on campus (unsual pour moi), after which I finished my homework, headed home cuz I had time to eat the rest of the Japanese curry I stewed the [...]
