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Jul 20, 2019
César Pelli, Designer of Iconic Buildings Around the World, Dies at 92
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: finance, transportation
César Pelli, the architect whose firm designed Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, the Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia and other of the world’s most recognizable buildings, died on Friday at his home in New Haven. He was 92.
The Argentine state news agency Telam confirmed the death, as did Anibal Bellomio, a senior associate architect at Pelli’s firm in Connecticut, with news organizations. Mr. Pelli had been dean of the Yale School of Architecture there, from 1977 to 1984.
Mr. Pelli’s many distinctive works include the World Financial Center in New York (now Brookfield Place), famous for its glass-roofed Winter Garden; the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, known for its bright blue-glass facade; and a terminal at Washington’s Reagan National Airport. He won hundreds of awards, including the American Institute of Architects’ 1995 gold medal.
Jul 20, 2019
Watch three astronauts launch to space on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
Jul 20, 2019
Brain Scans Can Now Reveal Criminal Behavior
Posted by Paul Battista in category: neuroscience
Jul 20, 2019
Alphabet-Backed Space Launch Company Wins Pentagon Contract
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: military, space
Jul 20, 2019
Lyme disease: is a solution on the way?
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
The tick-borne illness, which is on the rise, can have chronic side-effects. So why hasn’t more effort been put into a cure?
Jul 20, 2019
China has deorbited its experimental space station
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
Jul 20, 2019
How close are we to achieving the transhumanism seen in ‘Years and Years’?
Posted by Derick Lee in category: transhumanism
As Mark O’Connell points out in his book To Be a Machine, the leading figures in our tech industry – from Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel to Google CEO Eric Schmidt – are resolute that we will live in “a future in which techno-capitalism will survive its own inventors”. Sooner rather than later, it seems, the next update to worry about will be which part of our body to integrate with the newest technology. Just ask Bethany Lyons.
A new study suggests the bridge between human and machine is closing faster than we thought.
Jul 20, 2019
AAPM 2019: medical physicists assemble in Texas
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
At this year’s meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, the temperature was scorching and the physics was exceptional.