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  • Napa Valley Home of Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio.
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  • Savid Salesin, Adopbe Scientist and tango bon vivant, at home in Berkeley, CA
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  • Creamland Dairy Cow. Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Savid Salesin, Adopbe Scientist and tango bon vivant, at home in Berkeley, CA
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  • The Holy Land Experience is a Christian theme park in Orlando, Florida. The theme park recreates the architecture and themes of the ancient city of Jerusalem in 1st century Israel. The Holy Land Experience was founded and built by Marvin Rosenthal, a Jewish born Baptist minister but is now owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Rosenthal is also the chief executive of a ministry devoted to 'reaching the Jewish people for the Messiah' called Zion's Hope. Beside the theme park architectural recreations, there are church services and live presentations of biblical stories, most notably a big stage production featuring the life of Jesus. There are several restaurants and gift shops in the theme park. The staff dresses in biblical costumes. Admission is $40 for adults and $25 for youths, aged 6-18.
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  • Napa Valley Home of Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio.
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  • Napa Valley Home of Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio.
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  • Napa Valley Home of Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio.
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  • Peter Menzel in Berkeley, CA/ test shots on David Salesin's back porch
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  • Ottersland Dahl family, of Gjettum, Norway (outside Oslo). Fresh baked bread for family by Gunhild Valle Ottersland, 45. Model-Released.
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  • Creamland Dairy Cow. Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Peter Menzel photographs Tokyo-based photographer Vincent Huang who used the giant Burning Man structure and revelers as a backdrop for his photographs of a traditional Japanese tea ceremony with performance artist Ken Hamazaki for a Japanese magazine. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • Peter Menzel in Berkeley, CA/ test shots on David Salesin's back porch
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  • Menzel-D'Aluisio compound, Napa Valley, CA
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  • David Provost, Pres. of Bacchus Caves, Napa, CA. His company digs caves, mostly wine caves for wine storage. Photographed in the cave his company dug for Peter Menzel. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.
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  • Mekong Estates rental property on the Mekong just south of Luang Prabang, Laos in Ban Saylom Village..
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  • Mekong Estates rental property on the Mekong just south of Luang Prabang, Laos in Ban Saylom Village..
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  • In March, 1991, heads of the three Texas oil well fire fighting companies made their first trip to Kuwait to survey the damage of the burning oil fields set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops in February. Here in the Al Burgan field in mid afternoon, it was as dark as a moonless night due to the heavy thick smoke. The only light came from the more than 300 flaming oil wells and the truck headlights. It was raining soot and unburned oil. It was estimated that 5 or 6 million barrels of oil were being lost every day in this field alone. Huge oil lakes were forming. The men in the photo are: Boots Hansen (white jacket, Boots and Coots), Raymond Henry (Red Adair Company, red coveralls), Joe Bowden (Wildwell Control, yellow coveralls), and Larry Flak (oil well fire coordinator, black jacket)
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  • "The Goalkeeper," a piece from Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds exhibits. Body Worlds is a traveling exhibit of real, plastinated human bodies and body parts. Von Hagens invented plastination as a way to preserve body tissue and is the creator of the Body Worlds exhibits..
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  • "The Goalkeeper," a piece from Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds exhibits. Body Worlds is a traveling exhibit of real, plastinated human bodies and body parts. Von Hagens invented plastination as a way to preserve body tissue and is the creator of the Body Worlds exhibits..
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  • Napa Valley Home of Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio.
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  • Micro Technology: Micromechanics: Scientist looking at a processed wafer of silicon through an optical microscope. In the background is a highly magnified image of a micro motor. The wafer being studied contains over 7,000 such micro motors on its surface, made by the same process as is used to manufacture microcircuits. In the background is a 130 Micron Rotor. Model Released [1990]
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  • USA_SCI_BIOSPH_72_xs <br />
Biosphere 2 Project undertaken by Space Biosphere Ventures, a private ecological research firm funded by Edward P. Bass of Texas.  ‘Biospherian’s Mark Nelson and Jayne Poynter eating lunch inside Biosphere 2 with Roy Walford in background. Biosphere 2 was a privately funded experiment, designed to investigate the way in which humans interact with a small self-sufficient ecological environment, and to look at possibilities for future planetary colonization. The $30 million Biosphere covers 2.5 acres near Tucson, Arizona, and was entirely self- contained. The eight ‘Biospherian’s’ shared their air- and water-tight world with 3,800 species of plant and animal life. The project had problems with oxygen levels and food supply, and has been criticized over its scientific validity. 1990
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  • Safiye Çinar, 55, irons near the stove in her Golden Horn area home, Istanbul, Turkey in the background is the room where her parents Emine, 78, and Mehemet, 80 sleep.
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  • Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge photographed from Yerba Buena Island. City lights of San Francisco seen in the background. Time exposure of car lights.
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  • Golden Gate Bridge at sunrise; view from Marin Headlands. San Francisco is in the background on right. San Francisco, California. Construction of the bridge began in January 1933 and was completed in April 1937.
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  • Riders take camels to an early morning training workout for camels at the racetrack in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Mosque tower and skyline in the background.
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  • Petermann Island, home to the southernmost breeding colony of gentoo penguins, located below the Lemaire channel, near the Antarctic Peninsula. In the background is the Scandinavian-built ice-breaker Akademik Sergey Vavilov, which was originally built for the Russian Academy of Science and still used occasionally by scientists. It is now predominantly used for adventure touring in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. The ship is currently operated by a Russian crew, and staffed with employees of the adventure touring company Quark Expeditions, and carries around 100 passengers at a time. Antarctic Peninsula...
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  • Faith D'Aluisio enjoys a gelatto as some corpulent tourists order theirs in the background. Rosas, Spain.
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  • A camel grazes while an oil well fire rages in the background.  Hundreds of camels graze around the oil well fire in the Rumaila field being worked on by Boots and Coots. The Rumaila field is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with five billion barrels in reserve.  Rumaila, southern Iraq. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
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  • The Great Sphinx with a complex of rock cut tombs in the background (a cemetery).  Giza Pyramid complex and cemetery, outside Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Used tires entering a prototype burning-burning power station in Westley, California. The tires are used as fuel to run an electricity generator. It is estimated that one tire can serve the energy needs of the average northern California household for a day. A tire mountain containing around 40 million tires dominates the landscape (background); the plant is expected to burn some 4 million tires annually. Several environmental protection systems reduce emissions from the plant; a smog-control system neutralizes nitrous oxides, a scrubber system removes sulphur & a giant vacuum cleaner removes fly ash. Both the sulphur & the zinc- containing fly ash are recycled. (1988).
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  • Micro Technology: At the University of Utah, Professor Michael Mladejovsky with an S.E.M. image of a micromotor in the background. Model Released [1990]
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  • USA_SCI_CRY_08_xs .Cryonics: Dr Avi Ben-Abraham, of Trans Time Inc., a cryonics company of Oakland, California. Cryonics is a speculative life support technology that seeks to preserve human life in a state that will be viable and treatable by future medicine. Cryonics involves freezing whole human bodies, organs or pet cats & dogs, in liquid nitrogen (tank in background) to await a future thaw. Cryonicists claim that medical science in the future may offer a cure for cancer or the restoration of youth, and that their methods of preservation might offer some people an opportunity to benefit from these advances. Conventional cryobiology methods for freezing organs (for organ transplants, for example) are plagued by problems of intracellular ice crystal formation, which destroys their component cells. Dr. Ben Abraham is reading ?the Prospect of Immortality? and is wearing a bracelet that identifies him as a cryonic patient should he be found dead. MODEL RELEASED 1987.
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  • Cryonics: Dr Avi Ben-Abraham, of Trans Time Inc., a cryonics company of Oakland, California. Cryonics is a speculative life support technology that seeks to preserve human life in a state that will be viable and treatable by future medicine. Cryonics involves the freezing of whole human bodies, organs or pet cats & dogs, and their preservation in liquid nitrogen (background) to await a future thaw. Cryonicists claim that medical science in the future may offer a cure for cancer or the restoration of youth, and that their methods of preservation might offer some people an opportunity to benefit from these advances. Conventional cryobiology methods for freezing organs (for organ transplants, for example) are plagued by problems of intracellular ice crystal formation, which destroys their component cells. Dr. Ben Abraham wears a bracelet that identifies him as a cryonic patient should he be found dead. MODEL RELEASED 1987.
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  • (1992) Professor Alec Jeffreys (b. 1950), English molecular biologist and discoverer of DNA fingerprinting. In the background is an image of an autoradiogram, the visualization technique used to compare DNA samples. A DNA fingerprint is a unique genetic sequence, which identifies any individual, human or animal, from a tiny sample of tissue such as blood, hair, or sperm. Its many uses include the identification and conviction of criminals, and the proving of family relationships, such as the paternity of a child. Only monozygotic 'identical' twins share the same DNA. DNA consists of two sugar- phosphate backbones, arranged in a double helix, linked by nucleotide bases. There are 4 types of base; adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T). Sequences of these bases make up genes, which encode an organism's genetic information. The bands (black) on the autoradiogram show the sequence of bases in a sample of DNA. Jeffreys is a professor in the Department of Genetics at the University of Leicester, England. Backgroung shows Autorad. DNA Fingerprinting. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Seal hunter Emil Madsen stops to look for prey (polar bears, seals, musk ox, and geese) while the dogs take the moment to rest near Cap Hope village, Greenland.  (Emil Madsen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in May was 6500 kcals. He is 40 years of age; 5 feet, 8.5 inches tall; and 170 pounds. Here he is looking for seals near the ice edge (a giant iceberg is in the open water in the background) The family has been traveling by dogsled for a good portion of the day. When the snow crust is hard enough to ensure that the dogs won't break through, they can pull the half-ton weight of the sled for hours on end. On level ground, the animals pull at about the pace of a running human, but the sleds can whip down hills so fast that drivers must step on the brake at the rear of the sled to avoid running over their dogs.
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  • Fresh leaves of the much sought after qat at a house in Sanaa, Yemen. The men in the background were gathered for a Thursday afternoon qat chewing session.   Qat chewing is a favorite pastime among many Yemenis.
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  • The roof of Cambell Hall at UC Berkeley (California) with a 14 inch telescope. The University Campanile is in the background. Geoff Marcy and his team have detected a large number of exoplanets using data collected from large telescopes at other sites.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
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  • Harold Cohen, former director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA), is the author of the celebrated AARON program, an ongoing research effort in autonomous machine (art making) intelligence. Cohen is seen looking at his creation, a robot "artist" that painted the picture in the background. California, USA
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  • Dawn over the Angkor Wat ruins presents a background for a young Cambodian man's sunrise fishing chore, Angkor Wat, Cambodia. (Man Eating Bugs page 52,53)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).Every week, the Revis family (foreground, Brandon curling weights; background, left to right, Rosemary, Tyrone, and Ron) faithfully trekked to the health club in the Wakefield Medical Center, a hospital complex in Raleigh, North Carolina, for two-hour exercise sessions. They enjoyed the workouts, but found them so time-consuming that they wound up eating more fast food than ever. Fearing its potential impact on their health, they ultimately gave up the club in favor of dining and exercising at home. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 268).
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  • Outside the Shingkhey Buddhist Temple, a two-day ceremony is held to bless the village. To a continuous background of chanting, the monks fill the valley with long, slow, deep notes from their horns. Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Emil Madsen stops to look for prey (seals, polar bears, musk ox, and geese) while the dogs take the moment to rest. Here he is looking for seals near the ice edge (a giant iceberg is in the open water in the background) The family has been traveling by dogsled for a good portion of the day. When the snow crust is hard enough to ensure that the dogs won't break through, they can pull the half-ton weight of the sled for hours on end. On level ground, the animals pull at about the pace of a running human, but the sleds can whip down hills so fast that drivers must step on the brake at the rear of the sled to avoid running over their dogs. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • USA_SCI_BIOSPH_81_xs <br />
Biosphere 2 Project undertaken by Space Biosphere Ventures, a private ecological research firm funded by Edward P. Bass of Texas.  Architect Philip Hawes at a computer workstation, with Biosphere construction on his computer and projected onto the background.  Biosphere 2 was a privately funded experiment, designed to investigate the way in which humans interact with a small self-sufficient ecological environment, and to look at possibilities for future planetary colonization. The $30 million Biosphere covers 2.5 acres near Tucson, Arizona, and was entirely self- contained. The eight ‘Biospherian’s’ shared their air- and water-tight world with 3,800 species of plant and animal life. The project had problems with oxygen levels and food supply, and has been criticized over its scientific validity. 1990
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  • USA_SCI_BIOSPH_65_xs <br />
Biosphere 2 Project undertaken by Space Biosphere Ventures, a private ecological research firm funded by Edward P. Bass of Texas.  Tissue culture tubes with the test module in the background.  Biosphere 2 was a privately funded experiment, designed to investigate the way in which humans interact with a small self-sufficient ecological environment, and to look at possibilities for future planetary colonization. The $30 million Biosphere covers 2.5 acres near Tucson, Arizona, and was entirely self- contained. The eight ‘Biospherian’s’ shared their air- and water-tight world with 3,800 species of plant and animal life. The project had problems with oxygen levels and food supply, and has been criticized over its scientific validity. 1986
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  • Night market with the Vat Mai Buddhist Temple in the background in Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Forbes Island, a man-made floating island home in San Francisco Bay, Sausalito, California, with Alcatraz & Bay bridge in the background.
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  • Northern California Coast: Shelter Cove (Lost Coast) in Humboldt County. Two glasses of cold white wine on the rail of the Lighthouse Inn at sunset with the Pacific Ocean in background.
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  • Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge photographed from Yerba Buena Island. Early morning fog and commuter traffic with San Francisco seen in the background.
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  • Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge 50th Anniversary Celebration - photographed from Yerba Buena Island. City lights of San Francisco seen in the background.
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  • Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge photographed from Yerba Buena Island. City lights of San Francisco seen in the background. Time exposure of car lights.
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  • North tower of the Golden Gate Bridge at sunrise; Alcatraz is seen in the background on the left. San Francisco, California. Construction of the bridge began in January 1933 and was completed in April 1937.
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  • Self-portrait of photographer Peter Menzel in his rental car window; fields of marigolds in the background in Lompoc, California.
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  • Saskatchewan, wheat and grain silos in the background.
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  • Jet skis on Jumeirah beach with the Burj-al-Arab luxery hotel in the background.  The Burj-al-Arab, built on an artificial island extending from the beach, is the world's tallest hotel. Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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  • Gentoo Penguin colony in Neko Harbor, on the eastern shore of Andvord Bay. Antarctic Peninsula. Large glacier calving in the background.
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  • Remelluri Winery: Granja Nuestra Senora de Remelluri, S.A. in Labastida, Rioja, Spain. In the background (R) is the picturesque hilltop town of San Vincente de la Sonsierra in La Rioja Alta.
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  • Wheat field with town in the background. Czech-German border.
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  • Bedouin camel herders and their flock with an oil well fire blazing in the background.  Hundreds of camels graze around the fire in the Rumaila field being worked on by Boots and Coots. The Rumaila field is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with five billion barrels in reserve. Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them very difficult and dangerous. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
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  • Boats on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India, with the Dasasvamedha Ghat in the background. Colorful and popular Dasasvamedha Ghat gets a lot of attention from religious pilgrims, locals, and tourists alike and is one of the busiest bathing ghats in the city of Varanasi.
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  • A woman balancing buckets on her shoulders walks near Xingping town near Guilin, China on the Li River. Karst formations in background.
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  • The Sphinx with the Great Pyramid of Khufu in the background at Giza, outside Cairo, Egypt.
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  • The visage of the Great Sphinx with a complex of rock cut tombs in the background (a cemetery).  Giza Pyramid complex and cemetery, outside Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Hypothermia: The annual Snow Bath at the Winter Carnival in Quebec, Canada. Onlookers gather to cheer on these snow bathers. Seventy-five courageous men and women brave the cold. Their only protection: a bathing suit. Three quick dips in the snow interrupted with a short break out of the cold are part of the program. Ice Palace seen in the background. [1988]
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  • Hypothermia: The annual Snow Bath at the Winter Carnival in Quebec, Canada. Onlookers gather to cheer on these snow bathers. Seventy-five courageous men and women brave the cold. Their only protection: a bathing suit. Three quick dips in the snow interrupted with a short break out of the cold are part of the program. Ice Palace seen in the background. [1988]
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  • Myron Kruger and his assistant, Katrin Hinrichsen, 'shooting' at each other with computer-generated sparks. Kruger is a pioneer of artificial reality, a method allowing people to interface directly with computers. In Kruger's method, called VideoPlace, the participants stand in front of a backlit screen. A video camera forms an image of their silhouette; the computer is programmed to respond to particular actions in a particular way. Here the computer sees the operators pointing, and interprets this as fire a spark in this direction. The computer-generated image appears in the background here on a large video screen. Model Released (1990)
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  • Virtual reality: Ralph Hollis, IBM, NY "Feeling" Gold Atoms working with a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) (at right) linked to a tele-robotic manipulation system with atomic scale force-feedback. The minute movements of the STM's probe as its traverses the gold sample surface is linked to a force-feedback magic wrist, enabling the scientist, whose hand is in contact with the magic wrist, to feel the texture of the gold atoms. In background is a false-color STM image of the gold surface, revealing the cobbled pattern of individual atoms. The photo was taken at IBM's Thomas Watson Research Centre, Yorktown Heights, New York. (1990)
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  • Ralph Hollis of IBM at Yorktown Heights, N.Y. demonstrates a tele-nanorobotic manipulation system with atomic scale force feedback. A scanning tunneling microscope that is probing the surface of gold is linked to a force-feedback "magic wrist" which moves as the microscope probe maps out the atomic structure, enabling the user to "feel" the atoms. In the background is a color image of the gold's atomic surface structure. The other two researchers who worked on the system are (Tim).S. Salcudean, and David W. Abraham. Model Released
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  • Conical flask containing a swirling vortex of liquid; one item of equipment used in Charles Cantor's laboratory at Columbia University, New York, in research on the human genome project. Colored radiograms used in DNA sequencing are visible in background to the left of the flask. The term "genome" describes the full set of genes expressed by an organism's chromosomes. The task of constructing such a complete blueprint of genetic information for humans is divided into two main phases: mapping genes and other markers on chromosomes, and decoding the DNA sequences of genes on all the chromosomes.
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  • Cryonics: Dr Avi Ben-Abraham, of Trans Time Inc., a cryonics company of Oakland, California. Cryonics is a speculative life support technology that seeks to preserve human life in a state that will be viable and treatable by future medicine. Cryonics involves the freezing of whole human bodies, organs or pet cats & dogs, and their preservation in liquid nitrogen (background) to await a future thaw. Cryonicists claim that medical science in the future may offer a cure for cancer or the restoration of youth, and that their methods of preservation might offer some people an opportunity to benefit from these advances. Conventional cryobiology methods for freezing organs (for organ transplants, for example) are plagued by problems of intracellular ice crystal formation, which destroys their component cells. Dr. Ben Abraham wears a bracelet that identifies him as a cryonic patient should he be found dead. MODEL RELEASED 1987..
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  • (1992) DNA testing in anthropology. A researcher with a mummified human brain. Dr. William Hausworth holding a 8000-year-old brain.  In the background is equipment used in purifying synthetic DNA primers used in PCR analysis of ancient brain DNA.   This and 90 similar specimens were found in a Native American burial pit, and are thought to be about 8000 years old. DNA fingerprinting of the specimens is being used to study family relationships within the group and to look for signs of hereditary diseases at the University of Florida.  MODEL RELEASED
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  • (1992) Professor Alec Jeffreys (b. 1950), English molecular biologist and discoverer of DNA fingerprinting. In the background is an image of an autoradiogram, the visualization technique used to compare DNA samples. A DNA fingerprint is a unique genetic sequence, which identifies any individual, human or animal, from a tiny sample of tissue such as blood, hair, or sperm. Its many uses include the identification and conviction of criminals, and the proving of family relationships, such as the paternity of a child. Only monozygotic 'identical' twins share the same DNA. DNA consists of two sugar- phosphate backbones, arranged in a double helix, linked by nucleotide bases. There are 4 types of base; adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T). Sequences of these bases make up genes, which encode an organism's genetic information. The bands (black) on the autoradiogram show the sequence of bases in a sample of DNA. Jeffreys is a professor in the Department of Genetics at the University of Leicester, England. DNA Fingerprinting. MODEL RELEASED
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  • (1992) Professor Alec Jeffreys (b. 1950), English molecular biologist and discoverer of DNA fingerprinting. In the background is an image of an autoradiogram, the visualization technique used to compare DNA samples. A DNA fingerprint is a unique genetic sequence, which identifies any individual, human or animal, from a tiny sample of tissue such as blood, hair, or sperm. Its many uses include the identification and conviction of criminals, and the proving of family relationships, such as the paternity of a child. Only monozygotic 'identical' twins share the same DNA. DNA consists of two sugar- phosphate backbones, arranged in a double helix, linked by nucleotide bases. There are 4 types of base; adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T). Sequences of these bases make up genes, which encode an organism's genetic information. The bands (black) on the autoradiogram show the sequence of bases in a sample of DNA. Jeffreys is a professor in the Department of Genetics at the University of Leicester, England. MODEL RELEASED
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  • (1992) Professor Alec Jeffreys (b. 1950), English molecular biologist and discoverer of DNA fingerprinting. In the background is an image of an autoradiogram, the visualization technique used to compare DNA samples. A DNA fingerprint is a unique genetic sequence, which identifies any individual, human or animal, from a tiny sample of tissue such as blood, hair, or sperm. Its many uses include the identification and conviction of criminals, and the proving of family relationships, such as the paternity of a child. Only monozygotic 'identical' twins share the same DNA. DNA consists of two sugar- phosphate backbones, arranged in a double helix, linked by nucleotide bases. There are 4 types of base; adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T). Sequences of these bases make up genes, which encode an organism's genetic information. The bands (black) on the autoradiogram show the sequence of bases in a sample of DNA. Jeffreys is a professor in the Department of Genetics at the University of Leicester, England. DNA Fingerprinting. MODEL RELEASED
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  • The Nativity of Christ Cathedral in the city of Riga, Latvia with the Daugava River in background.
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  • On Sunday, coal miner Todd Kincer and his family attend Millstone Methodist United Church in Mayking Kentucky, where the Reverend Harold Kincer, Todd's father and a retired coal miner, asks Jesus's blessings as he kneels and lays his hand on his wife, Judy, who plays music in the church. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The service features fire and brimstone, interspersed with some fine singing by congregation members who take to the mic after handing over their CD of background music to the music director.
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  • The daughter of Kibet Serem's brother on her way to school with the tea field in the background. (Kibet Serem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Kibet Serem cares for a small tea plantation that his father planted on their property near Kericho, Kenya when Kibet was a young boy and he is responsible for milking the cows that his family owns. He is 25 years of age. He sells extra milk to a nearby school for a government feeding program and gives some to his mother who makes yogurt and sells it. His staple food is ugali, a maize meal porridge. He milks, feeds, waters and cares for the cows twice a day with the help of the wives of his brothers who also live on the property in their own houses.
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  • Amateur rocket launch.. Amateur rocketeers adjusting their rocket before launch. As another rocket launches in the background. At the annual Black Rock X amateur rocketry event in the Black Rock desert, Nevada, USA. This huge flat expanse of land is a popular launch site for large and powerful amateur rockets as it is far from civilization and has little natural animal or plant life.
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  • .COMPOSITE PHOTO. Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Chris McCarthy, astronomer, with the 120-inch telescope. THIS IMAGE COMBINES TWO DIFFERENT EXPOSURES OF THE TELESCOPE AND DOME IN THE BACKGROUND. SEE 263 AND 268 FOR ORIGINAL IMAGES.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
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  • AeroVironment engineer Matt Keennon repairs an Ornothopter; a balsa wood model that flies by flapping its four wings with energy generated from the untwisting of a twisted rubber band. In the background hang a few of the numerous models found in the company's design center. Robo sapiens Project.
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  • At the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, MA, David Koons is a graduate student working under Richard Bolt doing his Ph.D. dissertation on multi-modal processing. In the photo Koons is busy programming with the large screen monitor.  Gloves, jacket, and head-mounted eye-tracking gear are in the background.
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  • Stir-fried black water beetles prepared for a restaurant meal in Guangzhou, China (cold beer in background). Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • The Li River in Yangshuo, China. In the background are karst mountains, which are famous landscape features of this part of China near Guillin in Guangxi Porovice. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Water beetles marinated in ginger and soy sauce with a carrot garnish against a background of swimming water beetles, Guangzhou Province, China. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Water beetles marinated in ginger and soy sauce with a carrot garnish against a background of swimming water beetles, in a restaurant in Guangzhou Province, China. (Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). After the Saturday soccer game, Diana and Alejandrina perform a family ritual: making fresh tortillas (in background) for cheese quesadillas. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 273). The Fernandez family of San Antonio, Texas, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • A photographer takes souvenir photographs to sell to visitors in Sukhbaatar Square, in the center of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Sukhbaatar is Mongolia's national hero who liberated Mongolia from Chinese rule. Parliament buildings are in the background. Material World Project.
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  • Kids play by a large puddle near the storage units that act as garages for residents of the large apartment building in the background. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Material World Project.
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  • Russian style apartment buildings in urbanized Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The city's big coal-fired power plants (smokestack and 3 cooling towers in background) and countless small coal-burning stoves create a polluted haze. Published in Material World, page 43.
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  • Inside the Shingkhey Buddhist Temple, a two-day ceremony is held to bless the village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. To a continuous background of chanting, the monks fill the valley with long, slow, deep notes from their horns. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Inside a makeshift tent outside the Shingkhey Buddhist Temple, a two-day ceremony is held to bless the village. To a continuous background of chanting, the monks fill the valley with long, slow, deep notes from their horns. Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • As happens in every Bhutanese village each year, a two-day ceremony is held to bless the village of Shingkhey. To a continuous background of chanting, the monks fill the valley with long, slow, deep notes from their horns. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Sangay washes her feet with water from a gourd before attending a religious festival at the local temple in Shingkhey village. This is part of the two-day ceremony--or pujo--that is held every year to bless the village. To a continuous background of chanting, the monks fill the valley with long, slow, deep notes from their horns. Shingkhey, Bhutan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 79.
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  • At the Shingkhey village temple in Bhutan, a two-day ceremony is held every year to bless the village. To a continuous background of chanting, the monks fill the valley with long, slow, deep notes from their horns. The drum in the center of the room beats with a deep, resonant, almost ringing sound. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 78.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Having just returned from a seal hunting trip, Erika and Emil Madsen slather narwhal oil on dried fish for a snack in the living room of their home, with MTV on in the background. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Taking special care about cracks in the ice, Emil Madsen selects the best spot for some on-shore seal hunting. In the spring this can be dangerous because the ice is breaking up and sometimes huge pieces break off and move out to sea. He is carrying a rifle and home-made wooden gun support. Giant iceberg in background  in the open water beyond the sea ice edge.(Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Fishermen catching istavrit (horse mackerel) line the Galata Bridge over the Bosphorus, the strait between the Black and Aegean seas. Located on a narrow isthmus between two bodies of water, the Turkish city of Istanbul (formerly known as Constantinople and, before that, Byzantium) long dominated the trade between Europe and Asia. The Galata District in the background, a hub for both entertainment and finance, is on the European side of the Bosphorus, both geographically and culturally. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 255). This image is featured alongside the Çelik family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • With Beijing's Forbidden City glowing mistily in the background, a group of middle-aged women in Zhongshan Park practices the long-standing tradition of morning group dance and exercise. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 79). This image is featured alongside the Dong family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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