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  • Thanksgiving time, Napa CA
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  • Thanksgiving time, Napa CA
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  • Thanksgiving time, Napa CA
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  • Schroon Lake in the Adirondack Mountains, NY state.
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  • Giant Mountain Wilderness Area in the Adirondack Mountains, NY state.
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  • Giant Mountain Wilderness Area in the Adirondack Mountains, NY state.
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  • Autumn colorful foliage in New Hampshire. New England, USA.
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  • Thanksgiving time, Napa CA
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  • Thanksgiving time, Napa CA
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  • Schroon Lake in the Adirondack Mountains, NY state. Peter Menzel kayaking. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Schroon Lake in the Adirondack Mountains, NY state.
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  • Schroon Lake in the Adirondack Mountains, NY state.
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  • Giant Mountain Wilderness Area in the Adirondack Mountains, NY state.
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  • Giant Mountain Wilderness Area in the Adirondack Mountains, NY state.
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  • Giant Mountain Wilderness Area in the Adirondack Mountains, NY state.
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  • Autumn colorful foliage in New Hampshire. New England, USA.
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  • Chase Promenade walkway in Millennium Park, Chicago, Il, USA..
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  • Thanksgiving time, Napa CA
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  • Thanksgiving time, Napa CA
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  • Thanksgiving time, Napa CA
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  • Schroon Lake in the Adirondack Mountains, NY state. Peter Menzel kayaking. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Schroon Lake in the Adirondack Mountains, NY state.
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  • Schroon Lake in the Adirondack Mountains, NY state.
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  • Giant Mountain Wilderness Area in the Adirondack Mountains, NY state.
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  • Giant Mountain Wilderness Area in the Adirondack Mountains, NY state.
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  • Giant Mountain Wilderness Area in the Adirondack Mountains, NY state.
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  • Schroon Lake in the Adirondack Mountains, NY state.
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  • Schroon Lake in the Adirondack Mountains, NY state.
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  • Fall in the Berkshire Mountains, Western Massachusetts.  New England, USA.
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  • Thanksgiving time, Napa CA
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  • Moving two large two story houses for urban renewal in Oakland, California, 1979.
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  • Clown mime, young woman and gumball machines in Warsaw Poland, Old Town Square area, on summer evening.
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  • Virtual reality. Jamaea Commodore wears a virtual reality headset and data glove appears immersed in a computer-generated world. Virtual reality headsets contain two screens in front of the eyes, both displaying a computer- generated environment such as a room or landscape. The screens show subtly different perspectives to create a 3-D effect. The headset responds to movements of the head, changing the view so that the user can look around. Sensors on the data glove track the hand, allowing the user to manipulate objects in the artificial world with a virtual hand that appears in front of them. Model Released (1990)
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  • Robot baby doll. Robot baby doll with part of its "skin" removed to show its inner workings. This toy, known as BIT (Baby IT), is a prototype of the My Real Baby interactive baby doll developed by IRobot Corporation and Hasbro Corporation. The BIT doll mimics the facial expression of a human baby by changing the contours on its lifelike rubber face. The BIT baby doll was developed by IS Robotics, Somerville, Massachusetts, USA. 
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  • Baby It's skin partially removed to reveal its inner workings, this prototype robot baby can mimic the facial expressions of a human infant by changing the contours of its lifelike rubber face. Called BIT, for Baby IT, the mechanical tot is yet more proof that much robotic research will see its first commercial application in the toy and entertainment industry. My Real Baby, the market version of BIT, is scheduled to debut in US stores in late 2000; it is a collaboration between Hasbro, the US toy giant, and iRobot, a small company started by MIT researcher Rodney Brooks.  Somerville, MA. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 229.
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  • The Sony humanoid robot prototype SDR-3X is held by professional Sumo wrestler Tamarashi ("Bullet-storm"). Sony Corporation announced the development of this small bipedal walking robot in November of 2000. By synchronizing the movements of 24 joints on its body, Sony says, the robot can perform basic movements such as walking and changing direction, rising from a seated position, balancing on one leg, kicking a ball, and dancing. Tokyo, Japan.
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  • Chicken and ducks for sale in Chinese open markets are shown live then either killed immediately or brought home live. The Chinese insistence on fresh food treats with suspicion anything that is already dead. This is changing somewhat in urban centers as Western style supermarkets become more ubiquitous in the country. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats) Although meat in the United States and Europe mainly comes from factory farms and is sold in shrink-wrapped packages, most animal products elsewhere (as these photographs demonstrate) come from small-scale producers and are sold by butchers.
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  • At the Napa Valley Festival del Sole, Joyce Yang joined violinist Sarah Chang, cellist Nina Kotova, violist Katie Kadarauch and soprano Nino Machaidze in a chamber music program that included the Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor, at Castello di Amorosa, Napa Valley winery castle built by Dario Sattui.
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  • At the Napa Valley Festival del Sole, Joyce Yang joined violinist Sarah Chang, cellist Nina Kotova, violist Katie Kadarauch and soprano Nino Machaidze in a chamber music program that included the Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor, at Castello di Amorosa, Napa Valley winery castle built by Dario Sattui.
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  • At the Napa Valley Festival del Sole, Joyce Yang joined violinist Sarah Chang, cellist Nina Kotova, violist Katie Kadarauch and soprano Nino Machaidze in a chamber music program that included the Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor, at Castello di Amorosa, Napa Valley winery castle built by Dario Sattui.
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  • Wine and cheese with Dario Sattui, Yana and Faith before  the Napa Valley Festival del Sole, where Joyce Yang joined violinist Sarah Chang, cellist Nina Kotova, violist Katie Kadarauch and soprano Nino Machaidze in a chamber music program that included the Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor, at Castello di Amorosa, Napa Valley winery castle built by Dario Sattui.
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, Buddhist monks walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists, and some tourists. They then return to their temples (also known as wats) and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit. Here they pass by the Chang Guest House.
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  • At the Napa Valley Festival del Sole, Joyce Yang joined violinist Sarah Chang, cellist Nina Kotova, violist Katie Kadarauch and soprano Nino Machaidze in a chamber music program that included the Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor, at Castello di Amorosa, Napa Valley winery castle built by Dario Sattui.
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  • At the Napa Valley Festival del Sole, Joyce Yang joined violinist Sarah Chang, cellist Nina Kotova, violist Katie Kadarauch and soprano Nino Machaidze in a chamber music program that included the Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor, at Castello di Amorosa, Napa Valley winery castle built by Dario Sattui.
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  • At the Napa Valley Festival del Sole, Joyce Yang joined violinist Sarah Chang, cellist Nina Kotova, violist Katie Kadarauch and soprano Nino Machaidze in a chamber music program that included the Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor, at Castello di Amorosa, Napa Valley winery castle built by Dario Sattui.
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  • At the Napa Valley Festival del Sole, Joyce Yang joined violinist Sarah Chang, cellist Nina Kotova, violist Katie Kadarauch and soprano Nino Machaidze in a chamber music program that included the Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor, at Castello di Amorosa, Napa Valley winery castle built by Dario Sattui.
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  • At the Napa Valley Festival del Sole, Joyce Yang joined violinist Sarah Chang, cellist Nina Kotova, violist Katie Kadarauch and soprano Nino Machaidze in a chamber music program that included the Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor, at Castello di Amorosa, Napa Valley winery castle built by Dario Sattui.
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  • At the Napa Valley Festival del Sole, Joyce Yang joined violinist Sarah Chang, cellist Nina Kotova, violist Katie Kadarauch and soprano Nino Machaidze in a chamber music program that included the Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor, at Castello di Amorosa, Napa Valley winery castle built by Dario Sattui.
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  • At the Napa Valley Festival del Sole, Joyce Yang joined violinist Sarah Chang, cellist Nina Kotova, violist Katie Kadarauch and soprano Nino Machaidze in a chamber music program that included the Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor, at Castello di Amorosa, Napa Valley winery castle built by Dario Sattui.
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  • At the Napa Valley Festival del Sole, Joyce Yang joined violinist Sarah Chang, cellist Nina Kotova, violist Katie Kadarauch and soprano Nino Machaidze in a chamber music program that included the Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor, at Castello di Amorosa, Napa Valley winery castle built by Dario Sattui.
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  • At the Napa Valley Festival del Sole, Joyce Yang joined violinist Sarah Chang, cellist Nina Kotova, violist Katie Kadarauch and soprano Nino Machaidze in a chamber music program that included the Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor, at Castello di Amorosa, Napa Valley winery castle built by Dario Sattui.
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  • Wine and cheese with Dario Sattui, Yana and Faith before  the Napa Valley Festival del Sole, where Joyce Yang joined violinist Sarah Chang, cellist Nina Kotova, violist Katie Kadarauch and soprano Nino Machaidze in a chamber music program that included the Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor, at Castello di Amorosa, Napa Valley winery castle built by Dario Sattui.
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, Buddhist monks walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists, and some tourists. They then return to their temples (also known as wats) and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit. Here they pass by the Chang Guest House.
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  • At the Napa Valley Festival del Sole, Joyce Yang joined violinist Sarah Chang, cellist Nina Kotova, violist Katie Kadarauch and soprano Nino Machaidze in a chamber music program that included the Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor, at Castello di Amorosa, Napa Valley winery castle built by Dario Sattui.
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  • At the Napa Valley Festival del Sole, Joyce Yang joined violinist Sarah Chang, cellist Nina Kotova, violist Katie Kadarauch and soprano Nino Machaidze in a chamber music program that included the Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor, at Castello di Amorosa, Napa Valley winery castle built by Dario Sattui.
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  • At the Napa Valley Festival del Sole, Joyce Yang joined violinist Sarah Chang, cellist Nina Kotova, violist Katie Kadarauch and soprano Nino Machaidze in a chamber music program that included the Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor, at Castello di Amorosa, Napa Valley winery castle built by Dario Sattui.
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  • At the Napa Valley Festival del Sole, Joyce Yang joined violinist Sarah Chang, cellist Nina Kotova, violist Katie Kadarauch and soprano Nino Machaidze in a chamber music program that included the Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor, at Castello di Amorosa, Napa Valley winery castle built by Dario Sattui.
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  • At the Napa Valley Festival del Sole, Joyce Yang joined violinist Sarah Chang, cellist Nina Kotova, violist Katie Kadarauch and soprano Nino Machaidze in a chamber music program that included the Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor, at Castello di Amorosa, Napa Valley winery castle built by Dario Sattui.
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  • At the Napa Valley Festival del Sole, Joyce Yang joined violinist Sarah Chang, cellist Nina Kotova, violist Katie Kadarauch and soprano Nino Machaidze in a chamber music program that included the Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor, at Castello di Amorosa, Napa Valley winery castle built by Dario Sattui.
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  • Wine and cheese with Dario Sattui, Yana and Faith before  the Napa Valley Festival del Sole, where Joyce Yang joined violinist Sarah Chang, cellist Nina Kotova, violist Katie Kadarauch and soprano Nino Machaidze in a chamber music program that included the Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor, at Castello di Amorosa, Napa Valley winery castle built by Dario Sattui.
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  • Wine and cheese with Dario Sattui, Yana and Faith before  the Napa Valley Festival del Sole, where Joyce Yang joined violinist Sarah Chang, cellist Nina Kotova, violist Katie Kadarauch and soprano Nino Machaidze in a chamber music program that included the Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor, at Castello di Amorosa, Napa Valley winery castle built by Dario Sattui.
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  • First generation face robot from the Hara-Kobayashi Lab in Tokyo. Lit from behind to reveal the machinery beneath the skin. The machinery will change the contours of the robot's skin to create facial expressions. It does this by using electric actuators, which change their shape when an electric current is passed through them. The devices will return to their original shape when the current stops. This robot face was developed at the Laboratory of Fumio Hara and Hiroshi Kobayashi at the Science University, Tokyo, Japan.
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  • First generation face robot from the Hara-Kobayashi Lab in Tokyo. Lit from behind to reveal the machinery beneath the skin. The machinery will change the contours of the robot's skin to create facial expressions. It does this by using electric actuators, which change their shape when an electric current is passed through them. The devices will return to their original shape when the current stops. Unfortunately these actuators proved very slow at returning to their original shape, causing an expression to remain on the face for too long. This robot face was developed at the Laboratory of Fumio Hara and Hiroshi Kobayashi at the Science University, Tokyo, Japan. The robot head is lit from within by a pencil light strobe cloaked in a yellow gel.
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  • Failure Analysis Associates, Inc. (an engineering and scientific consulting firm now called Exponent). Menlo Park, California. Human thermal plume, Schlieren image. The human body heats air to form a rising plume. This is revealed by Schlieren photography, a way of viewing density changes in transparent materials. These changes (here caused by heat and convection turbulence) cause light passing through the air to bend (refract). The imaging method alters the color or brightness of this refracted light. The detection of chemicals in the human thermal plume may help detect terrorist explosives and diagnose diseases.
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  • Oswaldo Gutierrez, Chief of the PDVSA Oil Platform GP 19 in Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela with his typical day's worth of food. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a day in December was 6000 kcals. He is 52 years of age; 5 feet, 7 inches tall; and 220 pounds. Gutierrez works on the platform for seven days then is off at home for seven days.   While on the platform he jogs on its helipad, practices karate, lifts weights, and jumps rope to keep fit. His food for the seven days comes from the platform cafeteria which, though plagued with cockroaches, turns out food choices that run from healthful to greasy-fried. Fresh squeezed orange juice is on the menu as well and Gutierrez drinks three liters of it a day himself. His diet changed about ten years ago when he decided that he'd rather be more fit than fat like many of his platform colleagues. PDVSA is the state oil company of Venezuela. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Eyes sweeping the room with what seems to be hopeful curiosity, Kismet the robot sits like an animated bust on Cynthia Breazeal's desk at MIT in Cambridge, MA. When it spots visitors, the robot's expression changes to an almost uncannily convincing expression of interest and delight. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species. One of a series of Kismet images.
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  • Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio's dog Arfy after a rattlesnake bite to his muzzle. Two drops of blood are oozing from the bite. He is going into shock. He had his blood changed in an overnight procedure that saved his life. MODEL RELEASED. [[2001]].
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  • Oswaldo Gutierrez (center), Chief of the PDVSA Oil Platform GP 19 in Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, monitors operations with his colleagues on an oil rig. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a day in December was 6000 kcals. He is 52; 5'7" and 220 pounds. Gutierrez works on the platform for seven days then is off at home for seven days.   While on the platform he runs on its helipad, practices karate, lifts weights, and jumps rope to keep fit. His food for the seven days comes from the platform cafeteria which, though plagued with cockroaches, turns out food choices that run from healthful to greasy-fried. Fresh squeezed orange juice is on the menu as well and Gutierrez drinks three liters of it a day himself. His diet changed about ten years ago when he decided that he'd rather be more fit than fat like many of his platform colleagues. PDVSA is the state oil company of Venezuela.
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  • Dead Vlei is a clay pan located near the more famous salt pan of Sossusvlei in southwestern Namibia. Dead Vlei is surrounded by the highest sand dunes in the world, some reaching up to 300 meters, which rest on a sandstone terrace. The clay pan was formed after rainfall, when the Tsauchab river flooded, creating temporary shallow pools where the abundance of water allowed camel thorn trees to grow. When the climate changed, drought hit the area, and sand dunes encroached on the pan, which blocked the river from the area. The trees died, as there no longer was enough water to survive. Sossusvlei is a clay pan in the central Namib Desert, lying within the Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. Fed by the Tsauchab River, it is known for the high, red sand dunes which surround it forming a major sand sea. Vegetation, such as the camelthorn tree, is watered by infrequent floods of the Tsauchab River, which slowly soak into the underlying clay. - from Wikipedia
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  • Dead Vlei is a clay pan located near the more famous salt pan of Sossusvlei in southwestern Namibia. Dead Vlei is surrounded by the highest sand dunes in the world, some reaching up to 300 meters, which rest on a sandstone terrace. The clay pan was formed after rainfall, when the Tsauchab river flooded, creating temporary shallow pools where the abundance of water allowed camel thorn trees to grow. When the climate changed, drought hit the area, and sand dunes encroached on the pan, which blocked the river from the area. The trees died, as there no longer was enough water to survive. Sossusvlei is a clay pan in the central Namib Desert, lying within the Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. Fed by the Tsauchab River, it is known for the high, red sand dunes which surround it forming a major sand sea. Vegetation, such as the camelthorn tree, is watered by infrequent floods of the Tsauchab River, which slowly soak into the underlying clay. -Wikipedia
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  • USA  The Long Haul Trucker.Conrad Tolby, an American long-distance truck driver, photographed with a typical day's worth of food on the cab hood of his semi tractor trailer at the Flying J truck stop in Effingham, Illinois. The caloric value of his meals this working weekday was 5,400 kcals. At the time of the photograph Tolby was 54 years of age; 6 feet, 2 inches tall; and weighed 260 pounds. His meals on the road haven't changed much over the years?truck stop and fast-food fare, heavy on the grease?despite warnings from his doctor. He has more reason than most to watch his diet, as he's suffered two heart attacks?both in the cab of his truck. The trucker travels with his best friend and constant companion, a five-year-old shar pei dog, named Imperial Fancy Pants, who gets his own McDonald's burger and splits the fries with Conrad. From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. (Please note that the calorie total is not a daily caloric average. See his chapter, and the methodology, in the book for more information). MODEL RELEASED...Note: The authors used a typical recent day as a starting point for their interviews with 80 people in 30 countries. They specifically chose not to cover daily caloric averages, as they wanted to include some extreme examples of eating, like one woman's diet on a bingeing day or the small number of calories a herder in Kenya ate during extreme drought. The texts in the book provide the context for the photographs, detailing each person's diet, culture, and circumstance at the moment they were photographed: a snapshot in time. A complete methodology is available in the book.
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  • To study the flight control behavior of fruit flies, a tiny fly is glued to a probe positioned in an electronic arena of hundreds of flashing LEDs that can also measure its wing motion and flight forces. By altering its wing motion, the fly itself can change the display of the moving electronic panorama, tricking the fly into "thinking" it is really flying through the air. The amplified humming of the fruit fly as it buzzes through its imaginary flight surrounded by computers in the darkened lab is quite bizarre. UC Berkeley, CA, USA.
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  • Robonaut, with an acrylic head, holds a drill with socket attachment at the Johnson Space Center, Houston. That NASA's teleoperated humanoid-type robot, called Robonaut, has no legs is by design, because in space, says project leader Robert Ambrose, an astronaut's legs can be a big impediment to fulfilling the mission of a spacewalk. The latest version of Robonaut has two arms, a Kevlar and nylon suit, updated stereo eyes, and is getting heat sensing capability. Possibly the most significant change is the move from total teleoperation to some level of autonomy.
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  • Eyes sweeping the room with what seems to be hopeful curiosity, Kismet the robot sits like an animated bust on Cynthia Breazeal's desk at MIT in Cambridge, MA. When it spots visitors, the robot's expression changes to an almost uncannily convincing expression of interest and delight. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species. One of a series of Kismet images.
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  • Eyes sweeping the room with what seems to be hopeful curiosity, Kismet the robot sits like an animated bust on Cynthia Breazeal's desk at MIT in Cambridge, MA. When it spots visitors, the robot's expression changes to an almost uncannily convincing expression of interest and delight. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species. One of a series of Kismet images.
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  • Eyes sweeping the room with what seems to be hopeful curiosity, Kismet the robot sits like an animated bust on Cynthia Breazeal's desk at MIT in Cambridge, MA. When it spots visitors, the robot's expression changes to an almost uncannily convincing expression of interest and delight. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species. One of a series of Kismet images.
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  • Eyes sweeping the room with what seems to be hopeful curiosity, Kismet the robot sits like an animated bust on Cynthia Breazeal's desk at MIT in Cambridge, MA. When it spots visitors, the robot's expression changes to an almost uncannily convincing expression of interest and delight. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species. One of a series of Kismet images.
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  • In Tokyo, Japan, REONA, a life-sized silicon sex doll sells for $7,500 (U.S.). The doll was shown at the apartment of the creator, a designer of artificial prosthetics, in a small room that served as his office. It was slouched in a leather chair dressed in a silk pajama and pantyhose. He changed the clothes to show the full figure, including private parts, which are removable and washable (not inserted for the photo). The doll is moved around by wheelchair. Its cold clammy skin was not a problem, assured the designer. "The doll has great thermoconductive properties. You can put an electric blanket on it for a while and it will retain body heat for a long time."
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  • Lit from within to reveal the machinery beneath its skin, this second-generation face robot from the Hara-Kobayashi laboratory at the Science University of Tokyo, Japan, has shape-memory actuators that move like muscles creating facial expressions beneath the robot's silicon skin. Made of metal strips that change their shape when an electric current passes through them, the actuators return to their original form when the current stops. The robot head is lit from within by a pencil light strobe cloaked in a yellow gel.From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 77.
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  • Deftly opening a door, the Honda P3 walks its assigned path at the Honda Research Center, outside Tokyo, Japan. The product of a costly decade-long effort, the Honda robotic project was only released from its shroud of corporate secrecy in 1996. In a carefully choreographed performance, P3 walks a line, opens a door, turns a corner, and, after a safety chain is attached, climbs a flight of stairs. Despite its mechanical sophistication, it can't respond to its environment. If people were to step in its way, the burly robot would knock them down without noticing them. Ultimately, of course, Honda researchers hope to change that. But, in what seems an attempt to hedge the company's bet, P3 senior engineer Masato Hirose is also working on sending the robot to places where it cannot possibly injure anyone. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 42.
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  • Kazuo Ukita moves books around the warehouse at his job at a distribution company. Like many other salary men, when Kazuo Ukita leaves home to catch the train for his job, he dons a navy blue suit for the hour-long commute, but changes into company work clothes once he arrives. During the commute, nearly all the men are dressed the same. Japan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 51. The Ukita family lives in a 1421 square foot wooden frame house in a suburb northwest of Tokyo called Kodaira City.
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  • A vendor makes change on market day in Antigua. Guatemala. (Environs image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Brown family of Riverview, Australia with a week's worth of food: Doug Brown, 54, and his wife Marge, 52, with their daughter Vanessa, 32, and her children, Rhy, 12, Kayla, 15, John, 13, and Sinead, 5. The length of the Brown's grocery list changes depending on whether Vanessa and her children are living with them at the moment. The Brown family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 22).
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  • Oswaldo Gutierrez, Chief of the PDVSA Oil Platform GP 19 in Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela with his typical day's worth of food. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a day in December was 6000 kcals. He is 52; 5'7" and 220 pounds. Gutierrez works on the platform for seven days then is off at home for seven days.   While on the platform he jogs on its helipad, practices karate, lifts weights, and jumps rope to keep fit. His food for the seven days comes from the platform cafeteria which, though plagued with cockroaches, turns out food choices that run from healthful to greasy-fried. Fresh squeezed orange juice is on the menu as well and Gutierrez drinks three liters of it a day himself. His diet changed about ten years ago when he decided that he'd rather be more fit than fat like many of his platform colleagues. PDVSA is the state oil company of Venezuela. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Felipe Adams, a 30-year-old Iraq war veteran who was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet in Baghdad, Iraq, shaves while his father changes his sheets at their home in Inglewood, California. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Felipe has already spent an hour in the bathroom going through his morning ritual.
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  • Dead Vlei is a clay pan located near the more famous salt pan of Sossusvlei in southwestern Namibia. Dead Vlei is surrounded by the highest sand dunes in the world, some reaching up to 300 meters, which rest on a sandstone terrace. The clay pan was formed after rainfall, when the Tsauchab river flooded, creating temporary shallow pools where the abundance of water allowed camel thorn trees to grow. When the climate changed, drought hit the area, and sand dunes encroached on the pan, which blocked the river from the area. The trees died, as there no longer was enough water to survive. Sossusvlei is a clay pan in the central Namib Desert, lying within the Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. Fed by the Tsauchab River, it is known for the high, red sand dunes which surround it forming a major sand sea. Vegetation, such as the camelthorn tree, is watered by infrequent floods of the Tsauchab River, which slowly soak into the underlying clay. - from Wikipedia
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Linda Jacobson, Virtual Reality Evangelist at Silicon Graphics, Incorporated, Mountainview, California. Jacobson stands poised over the operations area of one of Silicon Graphics' RealityCenters. The high tech console operates the large wrap-around screen behind her. Jacobson's dream is to be the host of a virtual reality talk show. In the meantime, this former Wired Magazine reporter is content to tout the virtues of Immersive Visualization?the newly coined industry name, she says, for virtual reality. The tangible element of her job at SGI is to manage and market SGI's RealityCenters?facilities designed to do quick representations in a fully interactive graphical interface. These can include virtual factory tours; automobile mock-ups; and mock-up product changes depending on the desires of purchasing company. Model Released (1999).
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  • To study the flight control behavior of fruit flies, Dickinson and his researchers have come up with something even more bizarre than RoboFly. They have built a virtual reality flight simulator for fruit flies in an upstairs lab. A tiny fly is glued to a probe positioned in an electronic arena of hundreds of flashing LEDs that can also measure its wing motion and flight forces. By altering its wing motion, the fly itself can change the display of the moving electronic panorama, tricking the fly into "thinking" it is really flying through the air. The amplified humming of the fruit fly as it buzzes through its imaginary flight surrounded by computers in the darkened lab is quite bizarre.
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  • Eyes sweeping the room with what seems to be hopeful curiosity, Kismet the robot sits like an animated bust on Cynthia Breazeal's desk at MIT in Cambridge, MA. When it spots visitors, the robot's expression changes to an almost uncannily convincing expression of interest and delight. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species. One of a series of Kismet images.
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  • Eyes sweeping the room with what seems to be hopeful curiosity, Kismet the robot sits like an animated bust on Cynthia Breazeal's desk at MIT in Cambridge, MA. When it spots visitors, the robot's expression changes to an almost uncannily convincing expression of interest and delight. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species. One of a series of Kismet images.
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  • Eyes sweeping the room with what seems to be hopeful curiosity, Kismet the robot sits like an animated bust on Cynthia Breazeal's desk at MIT in Cambridge, MA. When it spots visitors, the robot's expression changes to an almost uncannily convincing expression of interest and delight. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species. One of a series of Kismet images.
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  • Eyes sweeping the room with what seems to be hopeful curiosity, Kismet the robot sits like an animated bust on Cynthia Breazeal's desk at MIT in Cambridge, MA. When it spots visitors, the robot's expression changes to an almost uncannily convincing expression of interest and delight. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species. One of a series of Kismet images.
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  • Student Yousuke Kato points to a female face robot created at the Science University of Tokyo, Japan, Fumio Hara Robotics Lab. The female face robot (secondgeneration) has shape-memory electric actuators that move beneath the robots' silicon skin to change the face into different facial expressions much as muscles do in the human face. The research robot undergoes a metamorphosis with each class of students assigned to work on it. The latest iteration allows the robot's face to mold into six different expressions: happiness, sadness, fear, disgust, anger, and surprise. In some images, the computer monitor displays a graphical representation of the software creating the expression on the robot.
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  • Professor Fumio Hara and Assistant Professor Hiroshi Kobayashi's female face robot (second-generation) at Science University of Tokyo, Japan, has shape-memory electric actuators that move beneath the robot's silicon skin to change the face into different facial expressions much as muscles do in the human face. The actuators are very slow to return to their original state and remedying this is one of the research projects facing the Hara and Kobayashi Lab. The robot head is lit from within by a pencil light strobe cloaked in a yellow gel. It was photographed in the neon bill-boarded area of Shinjuku, a section of Tokyo, on a rainy evening at rush hour. Robo sapiens cover image. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species.
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  • Alatupe Alatupe changes a flourescent tube in the family home in Western Samoa. The extended Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Material World Project.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE) The Sobczynscy family in the main room of their apartment in Konstancin-Jeziorna, Poland, outside Warsaw; with a week's worth of food. Marzena Sobczynska, and Hubert Sobczynski stand in the rear; with Marzena's parents; Jan Boimski, and Anna Boimska; to their right and their daughter Klaudia on the couch. (Polish surnames are gender-based and can change when speaking of the family as a whole. "Sobscynscy" is plural). The Sobczynscy family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 246).
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  • A tourist takes pictures in the Dead Vlei, a clay pan located near the more famous salt pan of Sossusvlei, southwestern Namibia. Dead Vlei is surrounded by the highest sand dunes in the world, some reaching up to 300 meters, which rest on a sandstone terrace. The clay pan was formed after rainfall, when the Tsauchab river flooded, creating temporary shallow pools where the abundance of water allowed camel thorn trees to grow. When the climate changed, a drought hit the area, and sand dunes encroached on the pan, which blocked the river from the area. The trees died, as there no longer was enough water to survive. Sossusvlei is a clay pan in the central Namib Desert, lying within the Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. Fed by the Tsauchab River, it is known for the high, red sand dunes which surround it forming a major sand sea. Vegetation, such as the camelthorn tree, is watered by infrequent floods of the Tsauchab River, which slowly soak into the underlying clay. -Wikipedia
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