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The history of rapid-transit began 150 years ago, with the opening of the Metropolitan Railway in London in 1863. In the next century and a half, dozens of architects and engineers have worked on underground tunnels and stations. Some are abandoned now, but others are as good as new. Here are some of the most wonderful underground railway stations.

Rådhuset, Stockholm, Sweden

Rådhuset (Court House) station was opened in 1975 as a part of the Stockholm rapid transit system, one of the best examples of organic architecture. Pictured above.

(via Tobias Lindman/Flickr)

T-Centralen Station, Stockholm, Sweden

The only place where all three of Stockholm's metro lines meet has this really wonderful one platform station, opened in 1975.

(via Paolo Rosa/Flickr and Erzsébet)

Solna Station, Stockholm, Sweden (1975)

(via Wikimedia Commons/Wargklo)

Stadium Station, Stockholm, Sweden (1973)

(via Skye Christensen/Flickr and Wikimedia Commons/Allgau)

Westfriedhof Station, Munich, Germany

This station was opened in 1998, but the 11 large lamps (with red, blue, and yellow lights) were installed three years later.

(via Hannes Maurer 1 - 2)

Marienplatz Station, Munich, Germany

Marienplatz Station is one of the most frequently used stations in Munich, and was opened as part of the new S-Bahn network for the 1972 Summer Olympics.

(via Jaw3, Flickr/MrOmega and Wikimedia Commons/FloSch)

St.-Quirin-Platz Station, Munich, Germany (1997)

(via Wikimedia Commons/Florian Schütz, Wikimedia Commons/FloSch and Ian Fisher/Flickr)

Brudermühlstrasse Station, Munich, Germany (1989)

(via Jaw3)

Olaias Station, Lisbon, Portugal

Olaias Station was designed by Tomás Taveira and opened shortly before the Expo 1998. Walk through the station on 360cities.

(via IngolfBLN/Flickr)

Drassanes Station, Barcelona, Spain

This station was opened in 1968, but was completely renovated between 2007 and 2009 with GRC (Glass Reinforced Concrete) panels and interesting details designed by the Barcelona-based ON-A Architects.

(via buildtonet)

Budapest Metro Line 3, constructed in the 1970s and 1980s

(via Hype and Hyper)

Avtovo Station, Saint Petersburg, Russia

This highly ornate white marble station was opened in 1955 and designed by Y. A. Levinson.

(via Wikimedia Commons/Sbarichev, Wikimedia Commons/Florstein and Andrew L. Moore)

Elektrozavodskaya Station, Moscow, Russia

Elektrozavodskaya Station was named after an electric light bulb factory nearby and opened in May 1944 during the WWII. It's famous for its decorations, designed by Vladimir Schuko, Vladimir Gelfreich and Igor Rozhin.

(via Wikimedia Commons/Eugeny1988)

Komsomolskaya Station, Moscow, Russia

Opened in 1952 and designed by Alexey Shchusev and Viktor Kokorin, this station has some mosaics, red granite, marble and other artistic decorations.

(via 3 years in Moscow, Chaos In Patterns and Wikimedia Commons/Lite)

Kiyevskaya Station - Koltsevaya Line Hall, Moscow, Russia

The richly decorated hall was opened in 1954 and has a quasi-baroque style with large mosaics by A.V. Myzin and gold-colored trim.

(via Wikimedia Commons/Antares 610)

Slavyansky Bulvar Station, Moscow, Russia

The station, designed by S. Volovich and opened in 2008, has green Cuban marble on the walls, and grey granite with darker (Gabbro granite) marble edges.

(via Wikimedia Commons/VanHelsing.16, Jaime Silva/Flickr and somebody_/Flickr)

Zoloti Vorota Station, Kiev, Ukraine

The Orthodox cathedral-like Zoloti Vorota was opened on December 30, 1989 as the part of the first stage of the Syretsko-Pecherska Line. Designed by Boris and his son Vadim Zhezherin, S.Adamenko, and M. Ralko.

(via Wikimedia Commons/AMY)

Puhŭng and Yonggwang Station, Pyongyang, North Korea

Puhŭng

Many foreign tourists were allowed to travel only between Puhŭng Station and Yŏngwang Station (both opened in 1987) on the Chŏllima Line. The Pyongyang Metro is the deepest in the world–the track runs 360 ft (110 m) underground.

Puhŭng

Puhŭng

Yŏngwang

Yŏngwang

(via Wikimedia Commons/Gilad Rom, Wikimedia Commons/John Pavelka, Geolocation.ws/afchagen, Flickr/John Pavelka 1 - 2)

Museum Subway Station, Toronto, Canada

This station was redesigned by Diamond and Schmitt Architects in 2008.

(via architecture NOW)

O'Hare Station, Chicago, Illinois

This station, with its curved and luminous walls made of glass, is located at O'Hare International Airport. It was designed by Murphy/Jahn and opened in 1984.

(via Wikimedia Commons/Daniel Schwen and Eden Politte/Flickr)

Arts et Métiers Station, Paris, France

The steampunkish underground station near the Musée des Arts et Métiers was opened in 1904, but was redesigned by the famous Belgian comics artist François Schuiten in a style inspired by the works of Jules Verne.

(via Pathien/Flickr, Steve Calcott/Flickr and RG1033/Flickr)

Formosa Boulevard Station, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

This transfer station was built for the 2009 World Games, but opened in September 2008. It has the largest glass work in the world, designed by Narcissus Quagliata, covering an area of 23,465 sq ft (2180 sq m) with 4,500 glass panels.

(via Wikimedia Commons)

The stations of the Line A, Prague, Czech Republic

The colorful opened Dalek skirts with hemispheres on the walls make these stations from the 1970s look really fantastic.

(via Flickr/Brad Ackerman, Flickr/ian LF and Kristin Esteves)

Bockenheimer Warte Station, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

The construction was finished in 1986, but it was expanded in 2001 under the leadership of Zbigniew Peter Pininski.

(via Wikimedia Commons/Jcornelius, Bobanac Andreas/fotocommunity, Christine Moje/fotocommunity, mibi55/fotocommunity and Jürg Stuker/Flickr)

Working in the Belly of the Beast.

Last year I featured a number of amazing gifs from Istanbul-based artist Erdal Inci (previously) who clones sections of video to create hypnotic animated loops. His work has since popped up all over the web and will soon find its way into a gallery space. Above are some of his latest clips depicting numerous copies of Inci himself parading through the frame like a cloned robot army, though he also flashlights to create even more complex effects. If you happen to be in Italy you can catch his work firsthand at Action Gallery in Milano on May 25 and in Naples on May 30.

Here’s more life.

Dedicated to Thomas, who’s celebrating his birthday today – happy birthday Thomas!

Also, happy anniversary to Michelle and Ed!

Here’s more fish.

Dedicated to Michael who celebrated his birthday this past Saturday. Happy belated birthday, Michael!

Here’s more Batman.

That was the last time I ever went to see an apartment described as having a “Quaint view”.

Já imaginou misturar as obras de fantasia de George R. R. Martin com a clássica literatura de cordel do nordeste brasileiro? Bom, se você realmente imaginou isso, provavelmente você é Tenement Funster, o designer brasileiro por trás desse trabalho super criativo e bacana de ilustração. Utilizando uma técnica inspirada na xilogravura, Funster adaptou as cinco capas dos livros já publicados da série Guerra dos Tronos. Dá até vontade de ver essas imagens em edições de verdade dos livros, né?

Para ampliar as imagens e ver mais detalhes, clique nos links abaixo:

“A Guerra dos Tronos”

“A Fúria dos Reis”

“A Tormenta de Espadas”

“O Festim dos Corvos”

“A Dança dos Dragões”

 

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Google has been spending quite a lot of time tweaking, streamlining and generally beautifying the interface of its "social backbone." But while the mobile apps and desktop site have seen near constant updates, the mobile Google+ site has languished slightly behind. Today Mountain view is delivering a little bit of parity for those on platforms that don't have an official app, such as Windows Phone 8 and BlackBerry 10. The update brings the new card UI to the phone-focused version, along with easier to see and tap +1 and re-share buttons. The updated profile experience is also going mobile, with large cover photos and more touch friendly icons coming to both personal profiles and pages. There's no need to wait patiently while this rolls out either: the new mobile Google+ site is already live.

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Nerval's Lobster writes "Fresh off purchasing Tumblr for $1.1 billion, Yahoo has moved to the next stage of what's becoming a company-wide reboot: fixing Flickr, the photo-sharing service that it acquired in 2005 and subsequently allowed to languish. Yahoo boosted Flickr accounts' individual storage capacity to one free terabyte, revamped the Website's overall look, and launched a new Flickr app for Google Android, among other tweaks. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer clearly wants her company to fight toe-to-toe on features with Google and Facebook, but she faces a long road ahead of her: not only does she need to streamline Yahoo's cumbersome corporate structure and product portfolio into something that resembles fighting shape, but she needs to reverse the general perception that Yahoo is teetering on the edge of history's trash-bin, with an aging customer base and unexciting features. The question is, could anyone actually pull it off? Is Yahoo capable of an Apple-style turnaround, or are its current actions merely delaying the inevitable?"

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Depois de três anos em gestação, finalmente saiu: Pura Picaretagem, da editora LeYa, livro que escrevi em parceria com o físico carioca Daniel Bezerra e que é o tal "guia de defesa pessoal" mencionado aí em cima no título. Ou, mais precisamente, um guia de ceticismo para ajudar as pessoas a enfrentar a verdadeira avalanche de produtos e conselhos "quânticos" picaretas que abundam por aí.

Parte filosofia, parte história e , claro, parte ciência, Pura Picaretagem vai dos primórdios da teoria quântica, nascida na Alemanha do fim do século 19, ao humilhante desaparecimento das pulseiras "quânticas" Power Balance, poucos anos atrás, passando pelo auge da febre místico-quântica dos anos 70 e pelo verdadeiro significado da tal da "lei da atração" que, dizem os desavisados (ou mal intencionados) tem sua base no mundo quântico.

Gurus indianos e produtos sensacionalistas de mídia também recebem doses módicas de atenção, antes de serem devidamente despachados.

Fato impressionante: durante as pesquisas para o livro, descobri que, já nos anos 20 do século passado, alguns cientistas previam que as descobertas da física quântica acabariam sendo açambarcadas por místicos e embusteiros: um artigo publicado por um então futuro ganhador do Nobel na revista Harper's fazia o alerta!

Além de toda essa trajetória histórico-filosófica, também apresentamos o que a teoria quântica de fato é, o que há de realmente chocante e contraintuitivo nela e de que modo os cientistas sérios encaram fenômenos bizarros como o emaranhamento quântico e a dualidade onda-partícula.

A ideia para o livro nasceu quando eu ainda estava no Estadão. Depois que publiquei esta postagem no blog que mantinha por lá, o Daniel, que eu já conhecia virtualmente -- ele é o blogueiro do Telhado de Vidro, espaço que todo mundo que gosta deste aqui deveria visitar --, apareceu com a ideia de fazermos um livro apontando onde e como a versão "pop" da mecânica quântica tinha dado estupidamente errado. Quando perdi o emprego, o tempo para pesquisar e escrever, subitamente, dilatou-se. E, graças à inestimável ajuda do amigo e crítico literário Rodrigo Gurgel, nossos capítulos de teste chegaram à LeYa e agora, graças à LeYa, o livro chega às livrarias, já em pré-venda.

Escrever em dupla, ainda mais com um autor em cada extremidade da Via Dutra, é algo que provavelmente só deu certo graças à internet e, claro, à infinita boa disposição do meu colega de autoria. Durante meses fizemos videoconferências semanais, e os esboços dos capítulos iam e vinham pelo Google Docs, anotados por conta disso ou daquilo. Nesse meio tempo, vi publicado, pela Vieira & Lent, O Livro dos Milagres, minha primeira obra de não-ficção a sair, mas na verdade a segunda a ser concebida.

E agora cá estou, de repente autor de duas obras céticas de divulgação científica (ou de uma e meia, já que o Picaretagem é uma coautoria). Tenho planos para mais umas duas ou três: vamos ver se algo disso chega a se completar. As estantes lá de casa estão cheias de obras de referência prenhes de novos livros, que só precisam de alguma disciplina de minha parte para nascer.

O lançamento de Pura Picaretagem será no Rio de Janeiro, terra do Daniel. Dia 20 de junho, na Livraria da Travessa do Shopping Leblon,  a partir das 19h. Talvez também façamos uma em São Paulo, mas não está certo ainda -- diz a sabedora convencional que 90% das pessoas que aparecem em lançamentos são amigos do autor, e sei que a maioria dos meus amigos paulistanos não gosta lá muito de sair de casa.

O convite para o evento carioca é este aí abaixo:

Biostatistics PhD candidate Hilary Parker dived into the most poisoned names in US history. Her own name topped the list. There were several fad names such as Deneen, Catina, and Farrah that saw a quick spike and then a plummet, but the trend for Hilary is different.

"Hilary", though, was clearly different than these flash-in-the-pan names. The name was growing in popularity (albeit not monotonically) for years. So to remove all of the fad names from the list, I chose only the names that were in the top 1000 for over 20 years, and updated the graph (note that I changed the range on the y-axis).

I think it's pretty safe to say that, among the names that were once stable and then had a sudden drop, "Hilary" is clearly the most poisoned.

There it is minding its own business, enjoying a steady rise in popularity over a few decades, and then boom, Bill Clinton is elected, and the name dies a quick death.

Be sure to check out the rest of the analysis. Good stuff. [Thanks, @hspter]

Yup.

Uma das coisas mais legais em Star Trek eram os replicadores, que não existiam na série clássica, onde todos comiam cubinhos coloridos. Na Nova Geração você chegava no replicador, pedia o que queria comer e, usando uma quantidade absurda de energia e tecnologia de teletransporte o equipamento sintetizava o alimento.

Ainda é ficção científica, mas pode deixar de ser mais rapidamente do que imaginamos. Um dos grandes problemas de viagens espaciais de longa duração é o armazenamento de alimentos. Embalagens individuais ocupam espaço e qualquer coisa razoavelmente comível estraga com o tempo. Se fosse possível contornar esses problemas, a NASA teria espaço para cargas mais importantes, como aquela metralhadora que levaram para um  cometa em Armageddom.

Agora liberaram US$ 125 mil para um projeto de seis meses da Systems & Materials Research Corporation, que pretende construir uma impressora 3D que utilizará cartuchos com materiais biológicos, óleos, carboidratos, etc, e imprimirá, camada por camada os alimentos.

O primeiro protótipo produzirá pizzas. Imagino que tenha um forno e seja bem menor que a LET’S PIZZA. De cara os ingredientes estão sendo projetados para ter uma vida útil de 30 anos. Claro, um astronauta forçado a comer pizza por 30 anos terá se matado ou morrido bem antes disso.

Se der certo será uma revolução no mercado de aparelhos de cozinha. Uma impressora de Pizza salvará mais vidas que a vacina Sabin, principalmente num sábado de madrugada.

Fonte: SG.

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