Source: Ted.com. Fiorenzo Omenetto shares 20+ astonishing new uses for silk, one of nature’s most elegant materials — in transmitting light, improving sustainability, adding strength and making medical leaps and bounds. On stage, he shows a few intriguing items made of the versatile stuff.
Source: Ted.com. As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there’s a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a “filter bubble” and don’t get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy.
Grants Pass, Oregon, May, 13, 2011. A local website with a focus on the Grants Pass area performing arts and artist scene was recently launched called Grants Pass Scene.
Grants Pass Scene
Some of the features of Grants Pass Scene include a listing of upcoming events, a venue listing each with information about the venue including contact information and a Google map for directions. The event listing also includes links to ticket sales where necessary.
The home page features a mp3 player that will promote local artists albums with links to their sales outlet that can be iTunes, Amazon.com or directly to the artists own sales on their website.
Fans and patrons have the ability to post their own photographs directly to the venue galleries via a gallery submission menu at the top of the page. However all uploaded photographs will be moderated prior to being displayed on the website to prevent inappropriate usage.
The Grants Pass Scene website is also mobile device friendly. It is viewable on portable devices such as smartphones by Google, Apple and Blackberry. The Apple iPad is supported and can also download the website as an App on the iPad home screen. The mobile optimized version is automatic as the website automatically detects the device the website visitor is using and delivers the appropriate version. The view can be switched back and forth between the normal desktop browser version and mobile version at the bottom of the page.
Some of the venues already published by local artists and the Grants Pass Scene editors are The Historic Rogue Theatre, The Cedarwood Saloon, The G Street Bar and Grill and Dorman’s Place. More venues are being added daily.
If you would like your restaurant, bar, theater or other event venue added you can tell them via the contact us form on the website. Artists are also invited to publish their events and promote their works.
There is no charge for venue or event listings.
You can visit the Grants Pass Scene website at grantspassscene.com.
SOURCE: YouTube. A collaboration video by Heui Won Jeong and Justin Murphy.
SOURCE: Rogue Video, YouTube. This is an excerpt from a documentary Rogue Video produced on Mining in Southern Oregon. Dave McCracken, founder and general manager of the New 49ers Club tells how miners are being unfairly targeted by anti-mining groups that are unable to prove that what the miners are doing is harmful in any way.
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SOURCE: Rogue Video, YouTube. In the first segment of the Gold Ray documentary, we learn about the history of the first hydroelectric plant in Southern Oregon.
When the Frank and Charles Ray first conceived of the idea of damming up the Rogue River to provide hydroelectric power to Southern Oregon, many people didn’t believe it was possible. Those who believed it couldn’t conceive of the need for that much electricity. But the Rays persisted and the Rogue Valley was one of the first places on the West Coast to have electricity. The Rays conceived of Gold Ray as more than just an industrial site, but a monument to the new technology that would (and did) usher in a new age. Gold Ray became a thriving tourist attraction and social center as well as an industrial complex.
SOURCE: Rogue Video, YouTube. In the first segment of the Gold Ray documentary, we learn about the history of the first hydroelectric plant in Southern Oregon.
When the Frank and Charles Ray first conceived of the idea of damming up the Rogue River to provide hydroelectric power to Southern Oregon, many people didn’t believe it was possible. Those who believed it couldn’t conceive of the need for that much electricity. But the Rays persisted and the Rogue Valley was one of the first places on the West Coast to have electricity. The Rays conceived of Gold Ray as more than just an industrial site, but a monument to the new technology that would (and did) usher in a new age. Gold Ray became a thriving tourist attraction and social center as well as an industrial complex.
SOURCE WebMD: Electronic Faucets May Be More Contaminated With Disease-Carrying Bacteria Than Manual Faucets, Researcher Says.
March 31, 2011 — Electronic faucets may be touch-free, but they are far from germ-free. In a new study, researchers at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine report finding higher levels of disease-carrying bacteria on hands-free faucets compared to conventional, manually operated faucets. Their discovery led to the removal of all such faucets in clinical areas at Johns Hopkins Hospital and the cancellation of plans to install hands-free models in a hospital building now under construction.
Read the full article on WebMD here.
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