The Winter Sky: Planets, Stars and Cool Shapes

The Cold sky

New York's Architecture Series:

International Plaza

International Plaza:
A World Class Office Tower
Premier Location, Located steps from Park Avenue in Manhattan's Plaza District.

International Plaza is an outstanding world-class office and retail tower designed by world renowned architect Helmut Jahn. Situated across the street from Bloomingdales and Bloomberg's new world headquarters, International Plaza is steps away from a vast number of world class points of interest, hotels, restaurants, and elegant shops.

The main lobby, entered on East 59th Street, is a powerful composition of glass, marble and granite. Staffed by round-the-clock security personnel, it is a striking 30' high area, topped by a backlit atrium. 8 elevators serve the 31 floors.

Offering unparalleled security, state-of-the-art mechanical systems, and all of the first-class amenities imaginable, International Plaza is a rare business environment in a class by itself.

New York Architecture' Series:

Astor Place Tower

Pictures and a brieg history of some of buildings in New York City. There are many interesting buildings in the city. These are some of the ones i really like. I would like to continue with
The Astor Place Tower
This residential condominium tower is one of the most distinctive in the city.
Built in 2006
39 Apartments
21 Floors

Located in the heart of one of downtown's most eclectic and culturally enriched neighborhoods, amid landmarks that include The Public Theater and The Cooper Union, Astor Place at 445 Lafayette Street is an unprecedented Sculpture for Living designed by two of America's most renowned modern architects, Charles Gwathmey and Robert Siegel.

Urban life in 1st century Roman cities

Two thousand years ago, at the dawn of the first century, the world was ruled from Rome.
From England to Africa and from Syria to Spain, one in every four people on earth lived and died under Roman law.


Roman cities Roman city is basically composed by a number of identical components, were planned with two major streets running East –West and North-South intersecting at the forum, which was the center of commerce in the city
The forum was made with two Insular put together. There are a few temples in the Forum. They are the temples of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva. The other side of the forum was a place to meet for people.
Urban design of Roman cities The Romans achieved originality in building very late in their existence; for the whole of the republican period, Roman architecture was a nearly exact copy of that of Greece, aside from the Etruscan contribution of the arch, and its later three-dimensional counterpart, the dome Many European cities still bear reminders of the power of ancient Rome, and throughout the western world the influence of Roman power is still manifest. Architecture was crucial to the success of Rome.

New York's Architecture Series:

Flatiron Building

Pictures and a brief history of some of buildings in New York City. There are many interesting buildings in the city. These are some of the ones i really like. I would like to start with The Fuller Building known as Flatiron Building
Will try to post good pics.

Flatiron Building



The Fuller Building or as it is better known, the Flatiron Building, is in the borough of Manhattan, and was one of the tallest buildings in New York City upon its completion in 1902. The building, at 175 Fifth Avenue, sits on a triangular island block at 23rd Street, Fifth Avenue, and Broadway, facing Madison Square.

New "Wonders Of The World"

Interesting enough, we have New Wonders of the world...The Great Wall of China, Petra in Jordan and Brazil's statue of Christ the Redeemer are among the modern-day seven wonders of the world chosen in a poll of 100 million online voters, organizers said on Saturday.

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Access 2.0 Accesible Digital Life

I found a blog may be helpfull to you. Check it out?
Is your digital life limited by bad web access? Gizmos, gadgets, toys and bad interne experience tinclusivity Paul Crichton has a blog you need to see it for yourself.
Gizmos, Gadgets and toys

On the same note, i have found other sites can be useful to you, worth while to visit them:

Accessify
ww.W3
Molly.com
Box of Chocalates

Neutron Stars Spew Like Black Holes

Wow, very interesting finding! Read more about Neutron Stars
Image: NASA/CXC/U. of Wisc/S. Heinz et al.

Physics promises wireless power

Here is something, really caught my attention.
The tangle of cables and plugs I've in my work station, it is way to messy, I really fix up every week. Somehow it must be done every week. All my machinery wouldn't work with out all these cables and plugs needed to recharge today's electronic gadgets that i have in my station. Could soon be a thing of the past. It would very awesome!
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Maximizing Survival Time Inside the Event Horizon of a Black Hole

image credit to NASA
Think about it

image by
Nasa
Chinese space technology is threatening United States space superiority.
Here it is another interesting article about space
Who will win?

What We Don't Know

Very interesting what it is that we don't know?
What We Don't Know

Astronomers Create 3D Map of Dark Matter

As you know one of my favorite subjects is the universe. This new advance exploration of the universe had accomplished the mapping of the black matter. It is very intriguing

Astronomers have mapped the positions of vast, invisible isles of dark matter in the sky, within which normal "bright" matter galaxies are embedded like glittering gems. The three-dimensional map[image] spans not only space, but also time, and stretches back to when the universe was only about half its present age.

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