To commemorate the centennial of Britain’s involvement in the First World War, ceramic artist Paul Cummins and stage designer Tom Piper conceived of a field of ceramic poppies planted in the famous dry moat around the Tower of London. Titled Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red the final work will consist of 888,246 red ceramic flowers—each representing a British or Colonial military fatality—that flow through grounds around the tower.
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/07/tower-of-london-poppies/?mc_cid=5ec56bdc0d&mc_eid=03de958b93
http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/algorithm-recovers-speech-from-vibrations-0804
Researchers at MIT, Microsoft, and Adobe have developed an algorithm that can reconstruct
an audio signal by analyzing minute vibrations of objects depicted in video. In one set of
experiments, they were able to recover intelligible speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip
bag photographed from 15 feet away through soundproof glass.
The Warsaw Uprising began on August 1, 1944. For the next 63 days, Poland’s army fought the Nazis, trying to liberate their capital. The rebellion was timed to coincide with the Soviet Union’s advance that should have left the Germans vulnerable, but…
The effort lasted nine weeks and failed, leaving 200,000 Polish dead, mainly civilians. Every year, Warsaw commemorates this horrific tragedy with a minute of stillness.…various military and political miscalculations, as well as global politics — played among Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt — turned the dice against [Warsaw]. [source]
From:
http://twentytwowords.com/every-august-first-warsaw-stops-what-its-doing-to-remember-200000-dead/
