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Nice Science photos
A few nice science images I found:
Science World dazzles with 22-karat billboard
Image by Carson Ting
Created by Vancouver’s Rethink Communications, this is all part of Science World’s latest summer exhibit, Treasure!, which opened May 7 at the TELUS World of Science.
The golden board is the first of its kind anywhere in the world and took four weeks of painstaking work by Canada’s top gilder, Brian Dedora.
“The first time they asked me, I thought they were mad,” says Dedora, who usually spends his time gilding vaulted cathedrals or modern works of art. “I’ve never done anything quite like this. I’ve spent the last three years of my life gilding the Ukrainian National Church in Toronto.”
Science World is banking on the timeless appeal of the mesmerizing metal. “It’s the kind of interactive, inspiring message we love sending out,” says Suan
Teo, director of marketing of Science World. “As soon as Rethink showed us this idea, I couldn’t wait to see it in real life. It’s a great example of how fun and exciting science can be.”
And the price tag? Rob Tarry, a creative director at Rethink, estimates the board cost close to ,000 for the gold and time spent on it. “But compared to the
crazy high price of a TV ad, this is a deal. Plus, who needs another TV ad? The way this board captures the light is almost magic.”
The board comes complete with its own full-time security guard, and will remain up until Friday.
If diamonds are more your thing, Rethink has crafted another board at the 1200 block of Powell St at Clark Drive encrusted with more than 9,000 diamonds (not real this time, sorry), arranged to spell “Diamonds aren’t all that rare.”
The board is now available for public viewing at Science World.
NASA Goddard Science Jamboree 20
Image by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
The daily grind of a science and engineering career can leave little time to inquire how colleagues in the very next office have been spending their days and months. Toward remedying that, employees at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center emerged from their cubicles and offices on June 2 and mingled outdoors, Cajun style, at the center’s second annual Science Jamboree.
Congregating under tents on the Goddard campus lawn, everyone from scientists to secretaries and engineers to interns browsed the nearly 40 tables displaying the latest projects in earth science, astrophysics, heliophysics, and solar system science at the Mardi-Gras-themed event.
Credit: NASA/GSFC
To learn more go to: blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/whatonearth/posts/post_12756816359…
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the nation’s largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe.
NASA Goddard Science Jamboree 18
Image by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
The daily grind of a science and engineering career can leave little time to inquire how colleagues in the very next office have been spending their days and months. Toward remedying that, employees at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center emerged from their cubicles and offices on June 2 and mingled outdoors, Cajun style, at the center’s second annual Science Jamboree.
Congregating under tents on the Goddard campus lawn, everyone from scientists to secretaries and engineers to interns browsed the nearly 40 tables displaying the latest projects in earth science, astrophysics, heliophysics, and solar system science at the Mardi-Gras-themed event.
Credit: NASA/GSFC
To learn more go to: blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/whatonearth/posts/post_12756816359…
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the nation’s largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe.