Otto Dix - An Unforgiving Depiction of "The Great War"

Otto Dix shows the devastation and appalling misery of the battlefield as he remembered it from the trenches. A hundred year "anniversary"of The Great War.

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https://www.art-for-a-change.com/Express/ex11.htm

https://www.ottodix.org/

http://www.historynet.com/poison-gas-comes-to-america.htm

https://www.theartstory.org/artist-dix-otto.htm

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/decaying-weapons-world-war-II-threaten-waters-worldwide-180961046/

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Provenance: Der Krieg; #2 National Gallery of Austrailia Canberra

Provenance: Der Krieg; #2 National Gallery of Austrailia Canberra

Critical Science from Local Citizens

In Washington State, and elsewhere volunteer climate scientists study flowers for clues to changing conditions. On the front lines, the data they collect is helping researchers evaluate ecosystem change.

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Grand Challenge: Understanding and Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet

  • Improve understanding of and access to the biology and natural history of species - information that is lacking for the vast majority of species on the planet.

  • Increase knowledge of the evolutionary and ecological history of species and ecosystems, and the processes responsible for population declines and extinction.

  • Develop concepts, theories, tools, and models that contribute directly to halting biodiversity loss, managing species and their habitats, restoring ecosystems, and mitigating threats to the environment.

  • Understand how species interactions, climate change, habitat fragmentation, diseases, environmental contaminants, and invasions of exotic species affect the survival of species and the functioning of ecosystems.

  • Improve knowledge of the relationships between cultures and biological diversity over time in order to better sustain both.

 

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The Oceans of Earth

Without an explosion 4.5 billion years ago, the planet Earth might have been a blue marble, without much water and lacking the conditions for life to thrive.

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Confronting Our Planet's Plastics Plague

Brazil's Museum Fire and the Fragility of Heritage

What do we lose when we lose a museum? How do we define our heritage? Questions from Brazil.

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Mauro Pimental / AFP - Getty Images via NBC News

Mauro Pimental / AFP - Getty Images via NBC News

Folklore and Complications of Geronimo’s Cadillac

Who was the enigmatic Geronimo and what is his place in our history?

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Geronimo in a 1905 Locomobile Model C, taken at the Miller brothers' 101 Ranch located southwest of Ponca City, Oklahoma, June 11, 1905 | Public Domain

Geronimo in a 1905 Locomobile Model C, taken at the Miller brothers' 101 Ranch located southwest of Ponca City, Oklahoma, June 11, 1905 | Public Domain

Can we colonize the galaxy without going ourselves?

Colonizing the Galaxy Is hard, but may be vital. Why not send bacteria instead?Seeding alien worlds with terrestrial life is now being discussed

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  Grand Challenge: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe

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Bacteria (Wikipedia)

Bacteria (Wikipedia)

The Cultural Force of 19th Century Japanese Baseball

Japanese immigrants to the United States were deeply familiar with baseball: Japan had embraced it in the late 1800s. During the Meiji Restoration leaders promoted baseball as a way to transform the image of Japan while facilitating international connections.

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  Grand Challenge: Valuing World Cultures

Shed light on the interconnections among world cultures.

Study historic and contemporary cultural and artistic heritage, with emphasis on the heritage, arts, indigenous knowledge and expressive systems, and contemporary art and design.

Add to knowledge of migrations, diasporas, and interactions of cultural groups.

Deepen our understanding of significant global political and historic patterns and events and their impact on humanity and the planet. 

Grand Challenge: Understanding the American Experience

Conduct research on historical migrations and diasporas to and within America and on the contemporary movements of people, art, artifacts, and cultural expressions that connect various world cultures to the American experience.

Use material culture and documentary collections to research and interpret national milestones and achievements; American life and national identity, cultural expression, the environment and changing landscape, and achievements in science and technology; political and military struggles; economic, scientific, technological, and cultural innovations; and artists and leaders that have defined the United States and the character of its people.

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Global Warming Visits and Finds Us Unprepared

We’re Still Not Prepared for Global Warming.

It’s hot, but it may not be the new normal yet. Temperatures are still rising.

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Grand Challenge: Understanding and Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet

Understand how species interactions, climate change, habitat fragmentation, diseases, environmental contaminants, and invasions of exotic species affect the survival of species and the functioning of ecosystems.

Improve knowledge of the relationships between cultures and biological diversity over time in order to better sustain both.

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Photo Credit: Robert Simmon - NASA image - Public Domain

Photo Credit: Robert Simmon - NASA image - Public Domain

Architecture. Survival. A Future Vision Lives On

Paolo Soleri’s radical experiment in urban planning has been running in the middle of the Arizona desert for nearly 50 years.

What can we learn from his vision to help us confront challenges to the planet?

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Grand Challenge: Understanding and Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet

Understand how species interactions, climate change, habitat fragmentation, diseases, environmental contaminants, and invasions of exotic species affect the survival of species and the functioning of ecosystems.

Improve knowledge of the relationships between cultures and biological diversity over time in order to better sustain both.

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By Cody from Phoenix, AZ (arcosanti vaults) [CC BY 2.0  (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

By Cody from Phoenix, AZ (arcosanti vaults) [CC BY 2.0  (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Toxic Waste: Coming to Your Neighborhood or Already There?

Do you live near toxic waste? Check the list of the 1,317 of the Most Polluted Spots in the U.S. 

Why are they where they are? What can we do about them?

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Grand Challenge: Understanding and Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet

Develop concepts, theories, tools, and models that contribute directly to halting biodiversity loss, managing species and their habitats, restoring ecosystems, and mitigating threats to the environment.

Understand how species interactions, climate change, habitat fragmentation, diseases, environmental contaminants, and invasions of exotic species affect the survival of species and the functioning of ecosystems.

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Gettysburg Cyclorama

One of the most celebrated and widely viewed paintings of the nineteenth century --actually what was called a " Cyclorama"-- almost didn’t survive into the twentieth. The installation provoked an intense, extended and emotional revisiting of America's recent Civil War. Frenchman Paul Philippoteaux's The Battle of Gettysburg, a vast canvas with a vast audience—hundreds of thousands had once flocked to see it—was found by a Boston Globe reporter fifteen years later, moldering in a shed at the back of a vacant lot. 

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Grand Challenge: Understanding the American Experience

Use material culture and documentary collections to research and interpret national milestones and achievements; American life and national identity, cultural expression, the environment and changing landscape, and achievements in science and technology; political and military struggles; economic, scientific, technological, and cultural innovations; and artists and leaders that have defined the United States and the character of its people. 

 

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Detail of the cyclorama from National Park Service

Detail of the cyclorama from National Park Service

Saving the Earth with Help from NASA

There are a slew of Earth Science missions that NASA has planned for the future. We need all of them (and more) for a thriving planet. 

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Grand Challenge: Understanding and Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet

Increase knowledge of the evolutionary and ecological history of species and ecosystems, and the processes responsible for population declines and extinction.

Grand Challenge: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe

·         Understand the formation, geological diversity, and dynamics of the Earth, the Moon, and other rocky bodies in our solar system.

Understand how stellar processes change clouds of gas and dust into stars and planets, including the Earth, and how life emerged here and perhaps elsewhere.

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Photo Credit: NASA

Photo Credit: NASA

The History of Hydroponics

Hydroponics is a modern technology with roots in the origin of the Earth.

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Grand Challenge: Understanding and Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet 

Increase knowledge of the evolutionary and ecological history of species and ecosystems, and the processes responsible for population declines and extinction.

Develop concepts, theories, tools, and models that contribute directly to halting biodiversity loss, managing species and their habitats, restoring ecosystems, and mitigating threats to the environment.

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Photo Credit: CC BY-ND 2.0 by Farm Direct

Photo Credit: CC BY-ND 2.0 by Farm Direct

Tanzania versus Tourism and Modernity

The Tribes of Tanzania: As safari parks encroach on their ancestral lands, indigenous groups struggle to maintain their ways of life.

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Grand Challenge: Valuing World Cultures

Add to knowledge of migrations, diasporas, and interactions of cultural groups.

Shed light on the interconnections among world cultures.

Augment knowledge about the processes leading to the loss of cultural diversity – tangible and intangible heritage.

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Photo Credit: Christopher Wilson

Photo Credit: Christopher Wilson

The Great Mississippi Flood Found Footage: Haunting, Poetic

Bill Morrison’s masterpiece of found footage, explores a moment in American history that brought on huge social, demographic and environmental changes.

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Grand Challenge: Understanding the American Experience

Use material culture and documentary collections to research and interpret national milestones and achievements; American life and national identity, cultural expression, the environment and changing landscape, and achievements in science and technology.

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Scientists literally brought out the big gun to study the origins of water

Did planets like Earth, Mars, Venus, and Mercury form dry out of the dust and heat of the inner solar system, only to be drenched in water delivered from ice-laden comets later on? Or did drier asteroids and asteroid collisions bring the wet stuff?

To really understand how this water delivery system works, you need to watch it happen. But meteorite strikes are notoriously unpredictable, so researchers decided to create their own with the help of a super-sized gun at NASA’s Ames Research Center. 

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Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe

Understand how stellar processes change clouds of gas and dust into stars and planets, including the Earth, and how life emerged here and perhaps elsewhere.

 

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An artist's impression of an asteroid collision in space. NASA/JPL-Caltech

An artist's impression of an asteroid collision in space. NASA/JPL-Caltech

Migratory Birds Programmed with Their Own Google Maps?

Some hybrid thrushes varied their routes, suggesting that different genes may influence fall and spring migration

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 Understanding and Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet

Improve understanding of and access to the biology and natural history of species.

Increase knowledge of the evolutionary and ecological history of species and ecosystems, and the processes responsible for population declines and extinction.

 

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Photo Credit: Charles Floyd

Photo Credit: Charles Floyd

InSight - Studying the 'Inner Space' of Mars

InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to give the Red Planet its first thorough checkup since it formed 4.5 billion years ago.

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Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe

Understand the formation, geological diversity, and dynamics of the Earth, the Moon, and other rocky bodies in our solar system.

Understand how stellar processes change clouds of gas and dust into stars and planets, including the Earth, and how life emerged here and perhaps elsewhere.

 

Photo Credit: NASA.gov

Photo Credit: NASA.gov