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provides a platform to comment, analyze and influence; where young women are given the opportunity to speak on their own behalf on issues that affect their lives and futures. Via Mariannebanane.Stay notified of new comments
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I just had a kind of “Oh-my-god-i’m-on-decor8!” moment - Welcome to all new visitors!A week in New York
We are currently looking for a short stay flat in Manhattan, please get in touch if you can recommend something!Introducing Stefan
Welcome to Stefan, a new guest contributor to Vu d’ici! Our first European contributor, Stefan lives in Hamburg, Germany, and takes wonderful pictures - hopefully you’ll see some of them here.
Long time readers will know him for his short visit in Montreal last year, when we’ve been together at Mutek, and have also traveled together in NYC… great memories - welcome Stefan!
This week’s poll
Turning 6 today, we ask what is your wish for Vu d’ici 6th anniversary - more love, world domination or the live witnessing of an UFO - cast your vote!Ministry of Silly Walks
This is my kind of humor: Monty Python’s Ministry of Silly Walks. I love it and sometimes I cannot resist to do some silly walk by myself. 
An expedition into the Earth
While everybody is talking about the exploration of space and our solar system, its a little weird to discover that we know nearly nothing about the Earth itself!
Specifically I am talking about the deep sea and the outer core of the Earth. Certainly, to dive deep into the sea or to dig into the ground are not easy tasks either, but compared to the billions of dollars which are invested into space exploration, the investments made to explore the Earth are rather small.
Although this may change. Some days ago, the worlds tallest drill ship just arrived in Shingu, a small harbor somewhere in Japan (a “drill ship” is capable of drilling into the earth core in the deep sea). They accomplished a successful mission to explore the Earth. The ship is able to drill in 2500 m under sea level another 7000 m into the core of the Earth.
There are several reasons why this ship was built: first reason is to examine critical areas on the sea floor which can cause earthquakes, and second reason is to find life in the Earth core, somewhere between 2000 m and 9000 m under sea level, in the ground.
So this ship brought back huge amounts of stone material collected from deep grounds. And they found life within this material which was not expected by the scientists on board of the ship (!), a life form which never saw daylight (by the way, I would call these life forms “aliens”).
A detailed report of this mission will be available on the web in the next months.
I hope that we can expect more expeditions “digging” into the Earth. For me it’s definitely as interesting as space missions!
More infos here (text in german)
Vu d’ici en français, en anglais
We’ve added a new poll, asking you about which language you’d like to read on Vu d’ici. It is quite a puzzle sometimes to write for a www audience, so your input is welcome!Human clock
The site has every minute a new photo showing the current time… See it here.A purple optical illusion
For those of you who like this kind of trick, check out this optical illusion. Disclaimer: we are not responsible for your dizziness afterwards!Face Hunter
I love street fashion photography, and Face Hunter is one of my favorite web destinations to see what’s being worn on streets in Europe.Physical Networking
I think next time i attend a conference or party i’ll bring Ethernet cables with me, so to try to create an image of a physical network, to connect to people and do what is so popular nowadays: “networking”…Mid-February symptoms
Just remembered that mid-february is THE time where people around start to complain about mid-depression… Could i skip this episode? Some resources here.A decision to die
First I did not wanted to blog about that but I told m-c this story yesterday and she said that it would be interesting for Vu d’ici. It’s a tragic story which happened in Germany and I read on the Spiegel magazine about it.
Last year in November 2007, a 58 year old man got hit very hard by life. His wife and daughter left him and he lost his job, all happening at the same time. So he did not see any perspective anymore and one day he left his apartment with his bike and drove 100 km in one direction. He was searching for a place where he could be alone. He just had his diary with him, and some water. He found a lonely place in a wood on a raised stand (which is normally used by hunters to shoot animals) and he decided to stay there… and decided to die there. Every day he wrote into his diary, and he described how his body was reacting to the fact that he was not eating anymore. Some people found him dead last week. The last diary entry was written on 13th December 2007. He survived in the wood for 24 days.
This story triggered some thoughts: it is a very tragic incident but I was fascinated by the fact that this man consciously decided to die, but in a very unusual way: in the nature and by self-reflecting his own way to death. And the people who found him said that he was comfortably lying on the floor of the wood stand, with both hands under his head (like in a relaxing position).
Another aspect of the story for me was this feeling of “german melancholy”, because I know there are many people who are very frightened of being unemployed or receiving the so-called Hartz 4 unemployment money in Germany.
However, just wanted to share that…
Hey, decadent fashionistas!
Visual pleasure on a Monday morning for all people interested in avant-garde fashion photography can be found on Foto Decadent.Solar Cycle 24
On January 4, 2008 a new sunspot appeared on the sun which signaled the start of Solar Cycle 24. Sunspots are just spots on the sun, but they always come with solar winds which hit the magnetic field of the Earth and can cause so-called “geomagnetic storms”, which can lead to power outages. Scientists at the NASA are pretty good at predicting these solar cycles, so they knew that this cycle will start soon and will peak around 2012. And so the cycle started some days ago.
A really nice side-effect of the so far most powerful solar cycle (since recording started in 1868), is the Aurora phenomenon which is expected to be seen by more people than ever before within the next 4 - 6 years.
(taken in Norway)
(taken in Iceland)
I am looking forward to catch an Aurora soon… hopefully in northern Québec!
More infos:
- More information from the NASA
- More photos taken on January 5, 2008 (some are from Québec !!!)
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