Learn how to prepare gooseberries and find recipes for tart, ice cream and sauce at: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/jun/29/gooseberry-recipes-hugh-fearnley-whittingstall
The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually to honour
"...a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of
those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent
and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the
art of architecture." Founded in
1979 by Jay
A. Pritzker and his wife Cindy, the award is funded by the Pritzker
family and sponsored by the Hyatt Foundation and is considered to be one of
the world's premier architecture prizes; it is often referred to as the Nobel Prize
of architecture. The prize is said to be
awarded "irrespective of nationality, race, creed, or ideology." The recipients receive US$100,000, a citation
certificate, and since 1987, a bronze medallion. The designs on the medal are inspired by the
work of architect Louis Sullivan, while the Latin inscription on the
reverse of the medallion—firmitas, utilitas, venustas (English: durability,
utility, and beauty)—is inspired by Roman
architect Vitruvius.
Before 1987, a limited edition Henry Moore
sculpture accompanied the monetary prize.
The Executive Director of the prize, as of 2009, Martha Thorne, solicits
nominations from a range of people, including past Laureates, academics,
critics and others "with expertise and interest in the field of
architecture". Any licensed
architect can also make a personal application for the prize before 1 November
every year. In 1988 Gordon
Bunshaft nominated himself for the award and eventually won it. The jury, each year consisting of five to nine
"experts ... recognized professionals in their own fields of architecture,
business, education, publishing.
Find a list of winners with pictures of the architects and images of their
work at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pritzker_Prize
2013 Library of
Congress National Book Festival Saturday & Sunday, September 21-22, 2013 on the
National Mall Get information and link
to a survey to help choose "Books That Shaped the World" at: http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/
Jean Bernard Leon Foucault, French physicist and inventor, was born Sept. 18,
1819. Thanks for the pendulum. It may be hard to fathom, but the idea of
Earth rotating on its axis, first proposed in the 6th century, took many centuries
to gain favor, and many more to be demonstrated. The Copernican theory of celestial motions was
well accepted by science by the time Foucault was born. It elegantly explained the apparent
"rise" and "set" of the sun, but it was difficult to
"prove" by experiment. Foucault
built his first pendulum with six feet of wire, an 11-pound ball and a candle
that "launched" the ball by burning through a string to which the
ball was attached (to prevent any directional effect of pushing the bob). His pendulum became a sensation, and he
constructed several for public displays, the most famous of them at the
Pantheon in Paris. Foucault went on to
invent a gyroscope, and he tinkered with light experiments to "prove"
light was a wave. The California Academy
of Sciences museum in San Francisco has a massive Foucault pendulum that swings
through an arc of about 220 degrees daily.
Why not 360 degrees, you ask? The
pendulum's motion is dependent on the latitude of Earth. Foucault's likewise moved 270 degrees in 24
hours. A pendulum at the North Pole
would spin the full 360 degrees. You're
probably already wondering why the pendulum doesn't just slow down and stop,
eventually. It does. In the early Foucault experiments, this didn't
matter so much, because it swung long enough to see the floor shift in relation
to the arc of the pendulum. But as the
pendulum became more of a sensation, people invented ways to overcome the
resistance that slows the bob. Designers
these days use electromagnets near the fastening point for the cable, to
overcome that force and keep things swinging. At the academy, this electromagnet turns on
and off when the cable passes a beam of light.
Geoffrey Mohan http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-google-doodle-foucault-20130918,0,7291758.story
Sept. 19, 2013 This full Moon corresponds with the time of harvesting
corn. It is also called the Barley Moon,
because it is the time to harvest and thresh the ripened barley. The Harvest Moon is the full Moon nearest the
autumnal equinox, which can occur in September or October and is bright enough
to allow finishing all the harvest chores. On Sept. 19 in other years:
1819 --- It was such a beautiful fall day that poet John
Keats was inspired to take out pen and pad. He inked one of the best-loved English poems, Ode
to Autumn.
1876 --- Melville Bissell patented the carpet sweeper.
1891 --- "The Merchant of Venice" was performed
for the first time at Manchester.
1981 --- For their first concert in years, Paul Simon and
Art Garfunkel reunited for a free concert to benefit New York City parks. The concert attracted a crowd of 500,000
people in Central Park and was broadcast to a TV audience in the millions.
TEDx
Created in the spirit of TED’s mission, “ideas worth spreading,” the
TEDx program is designed to give communities, organizations and individuals the
opportunity to stimulate dialogue through TED-like experiences at the local
level. Find upcoming events near you
at: http://www.ted.com/tedx Toledo
TEDx is being held Sept. 19, 2013: http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/7716 TEDxToledoYouth@ToledoLibrary
is scheduled for Nov. 16, 2013: http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/10433
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