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...takes only a few minutes to reach us. We look out into the night sky and record an impression of what is out there and we are inclined to think that that is how it is now, at this moment. Yet that now is made up of many nows, overlaid to make what we take to be a record of some event in the life of the universe rather than some subjective experience. Where now is in the universe is no more apparent than where its center...
...hologram at all. The feat was accomplished with a 3-D green-screen digital-composite technique that's been in use for years. Some 40 high-definition cameras arranged in a circle filmed Yellin at the same time against a 360-degree green background; the images were overlaid to make Yellin appear three-dimensional, and the reporter was then digitally pasted into the frame next to Blitzer. Specialized software was used to make sure her image lined up with the movement and angles of the cameras in CNN's election-center studio. The technology (and money) to create freestanding, three...
...place in our zeitgeist: Gossip Girl. The CW show returned to the air on Monday after a painfully long hiatus due to the writer’s strike. The return was celebrated by New York Magazine, whose cover this week features a picture of the cast overlaid with the words “Best. Show. Ever...
...Division of Biological Sciences are engaged in understanding mechanisms of disease through laboratory-based research that emphasizes problems of resource-poor people and countries, while another important segment of our faculty focuses on social and behavioral, non-medical determinants of health, and domestic and international health economics and policy. Overlaid on academic departments, our Division of Public Health Practice builds on our expertise to make a difference in the real world, giving students practical experience in the community, training public health leaders in preparedness for disasters and terrorism, and combating the major preventable causes of death, disease, and smoking, both...
...then the applause broke loud and sustained. And when it faded a few students started with the chant: "Let's Go Hokies!" and it carried the stadium. It was both powerful and somehow spooky - as if the cheers of a basketball game had been overlaid on top of the deaths of 33 very real, terribly important young people because the community needed to feel united. It was a genuine need, but it was something different from the real grieving going on in their midst...