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Eesha Khare, 18, of Saratoga, Calif., received the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award of $50,000 for the invention of a tiny energy-storage device.
Teen’s invention could charge your phone in 20 seconds
“Waiting hours for a cellphone to charge may become a thing of the past, thanks to an 18-year-old high-school student’s invention. She won a $50,000 prize Friday at an international science fair for creating an energy storage device that can be fully juiced in 20 to 30 seconds.”
Read more…Smart Girl Eesha Khare is changing the world by being herself!
More Art Monday: A Philadelphia Education (Figurative Works)
You may know that Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, and the group known as “The Eight” trained at Philadelphia institutions but what about these other artists? Brought to you by ART 24/7Earned his certificate at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine ArtsImage 2: Ralph Rucci, Woman’s Jacket, c. 1996 -1997
Earned a degree in philosophy from Temple UniversityImage 3: Virgil Marti, Untitled (Floating), 1995
Earned his MFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple UniversityImage 4: Irving Penn, Elsa Schiaparelli, 1948
Attended the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia (now University of the Arts)Image 5: Maxfield Parrish, Sinbad Plot Against the Giant, 1907
Attended Haverford College, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and Drexel Institute of Art (now Drexel University).
Gallery 618
No longer just a fashion icon, supermodel enfant terrible Kate Moss has transcended into a symbol of the contemporary pop lexicon, equal parts girl next-door and rock n’ roll goddess. It’s no wonder that she has become a reoccurring subject for most of the top artists of her era. Damien Hirst, Banksy, Chuck Close, Mark Quinn, Lucian Freud, and Alex Katz have all incorporated her likeness into their work. Most recently, artist Kate Garner has returned to her original images of Kate.
Gallery 618 is bringing Kate Garner’s controversial photographs of Kate Moss to the United States and into a new light with Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, See No Evil. Garner created 20 unique canvas works showing three scenes from the now legendary photo shoot that helped turn an unknown 16 year old into a cultural icon.
Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, See No Evil runs from May 17 to 31, 2013.
Because today is Mel Brooks day.
Anne Bancroft on meeting Mel Brooks
Kevin Whitehead reviews Sarah Vaughan, Divine: The Jazz Albums, 1954-1958:
A lot of jazz singing is about consonants—the percussive attacks the music swings from. With Sarah Vaughan, it’s also about the way she rolls out her vowels, reveling in a held note like Miles Davis. Later her vibrato could get excessive, but in the mid-’50s her taste and control were a marvel. That much is clear from a new anthology of Vaughan on EmArcy, Divine: The Jazz Albums 1954-1958 (Verve Select). (In that period she was made pop albums with strings, and some of the same tunes.) It’s six albums-plus on four CDs, recorded live or in the studio, with bands big and small. All but one session is sparked by another bebop institution, drummer Roy Haynes. He has a springy beat, using brushes, and doesn’t overplay.
Sarah Vaughan had a gallery of vocal timbres, gravelly to silky, round or strident, white-gloved or blues-drenched. Her pitch range was operatic, and her low notes have uncommon power. She drew inspiration from great soloists and gave it right back
The one, the only, the wonder that is Mel Brooks is on the show today. I listened to the interview Friday and, well, I laughed and I cried. When he was talking about his late wife, the actor Anne Bancroft, to whom he was married for 40 years and who died in 2005, I laughed and cried simultaneously. At that point he’s talking to David Bianculli about learning Polish so that he and Bancroft could perform “Sweet Georgia Brown” together in that language, the clip of which is above. It’s fantastic.
Happy Monday. How about a peek behind the scenes of The Royal Tenenbaums to start your week?
More behind the scenes shots from more movies here.
Previously on Arrested Development | NPR’s guide to the running gags from the show
This is dedication.
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Dinosaurs are fascinating, but half-truths and myths about them are common. New Scientist nails 10 of the most common.1. Humans lived alongside dinosaurs
2. Mammals only came into being after the dinosaurs died out
3. Dinosaurs died out because mammals ate their eggs
4. An asteroid impact alone killed the dinosaurs
5. Dinosaurs died out because they were unsuccessful in evolutionary terms
6. All dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago
7. Dinosaurs were slow and sluggish animals
8. All large land reptiles from prehistoric times were dinosaurs
9. Marine reptiles - for example, plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs - were dinosaurs
