Benjamin Barnett

Breaching the divide between digital film, media, and politics since 1997.

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$200 Million. Biggest Opening Ever.Well it looks like Ben may have already locked up the win in our Fantasy Summer Box Office pool. Ben had The Avengers, which exceeded even Hollywood’s most coke-fueled delusions, […] Source: FilmDrunk

$200 Million. Biggest Opening Ever.
Well it looks like Ben may have already locked up the win in our Fantasy Summer Box Office pool. Ben had The Avengers, which exceeded even Hollywood’s most coke-fueled delusions, […]

Source: FilmDrunk

npr: Dark Matter Study: A Disturbance In The Force? There are theories with a small “t” and theories with a capital “T.” For the last two decades the concept that most stuff in the universe comes in an invisible form called Dark Matter has grown into the second kind. It’s a Theory or a paradigm with lots of overlapping strands of evidence coming together to form a tightly woven fabric. Much of modern astronomy relies on the fabric of Dark Matter for a coherent account of the universe and its history. It’s not easy to overturn Theories because their reach is so wide. It does happen however and, when it does, there are usually key experiments that get the ball rolling. For Dark Matter, it just may be possible that one of those experiments has made its first public appearance. This week a team of astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) released a study of stellar motions in the local volume of the Milky Way, our galaxy. Based on the way these stars moved (the way gravity pulled them into motion), the scientists hoped to infer the presence of Dark Matter. They did not find any. None. Nada. Zip. Zero. -Adam Frank (Photo credit: L. Calçada/ESO)

npr:

Dark Matter Study: A Disturbance In The Force?

There are theories with a small “t” and theories with a capital “T.” For the last two decades the concept that most stuff in the universe comes in an invisible form called Dark Matter has grown into the second kind. It’s a Theory or a paradigm with lots of overlapping strands of evidence coming together to form a tightly woven fabric. Much of modern astronomy relies on the fabric of Dark Matter for a coherent account of the universe and its history.

It’s not easy to overturn Theories because their reach is so wide. It does happen however and, when it does, there are usually key experiments that get the ball rolling. For Dark Matter, it just may be possible that one of those experiments has made its first public appearance.

This week a team of astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) released a study of stellar motions in the local volume of the Milky Way, our galaxy. Based on the way these stars moved (the way gravity pulled them into motion), the scientists hoped to infer the presence of Dark Matter. They did not find any.

None. Nada. Zip. Zero. -Adam Frank

(Photo credit: L. Calçada/ESO)

wnycradiolab: revelation2220: Pictured is the Super-Kamiokande, a giant neutrino detector, buried 1000m underground in Japan. Usually filled with 50,000 tonnes of pure water, the observatory detects neutrinos by watching for interactions with the subatomic particles in the water. These interactions are extremely rare, which is why the detector needed to be built to the scale it is. WHAT

wnycradiolab:

revelation2220:

Pictured is the Super-Kamiokande, a giant neutrino detector, buried 1000m underground in Japan. Usually filled with 50,000 tonnes of pure water, the observatory detects neutrinos by watching for interactions with the subatomic particles in the water. These interactions are extremely rare, which is why the detector needed to be built to the scale it is.

WHAT

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test post #6 c u there?

test post #6 c u there?

Social Media and #Election2012 - National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, PA

Social Media and #Election2012 - National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, PA

freeRADlab - Media Bureau, Philadelphia, PA 19123 #Pi5 #piff

freeRADlab - Media Bureau, Philadelphia, PA 19123 #Pi5 #piff

npr:

A Long, Twisted Path To Mercury 

It took the Messenger spacecraft nearly eight years to reach orbit around Mercury. Follow the topsy-turvy path the probe took to reach the planet closet to the sun.

4th Wall Art Salon - 1year anniversary at Media Bureau 2011

4th Wall Art Salon - 1year anniversary at Media Bureau 2011