A colony provides a safe haven

For the Contingency of Curation conference we explored new ways of presenting the traditional paper to a conference by creating a sound work. The original content of the presentation was Host Artists Group (H.A.G.) text* written for S.H.U.'s Transmission chapbook series. This text considered roles of artists and curators and their relationship within projects involving large numbers of artists. The pros and cons of this relationship were discussed through an exchange of letters. Through the editing process the research gathered became more focused on the analogy of natural systems and relationships. Observations, comments and musings from the ensuing dialogue were mixed with field recordings adding narrative, emotional and physical value to the text. The research for this project was disseminated as a live sonic performance, displaced from the text instead of a formal presentation. The performance was delivered anonymously using laptops plugged in to the theatre's surround sound system. It consisted of a twenty minute listening experience of dialogue and immersive sound. * Thanks to Rose Butler and Lesley Guy for contributing to the original text

Radiocarbon dating results from the Beakers and Bodies Project

The Beakers and Bodies Project is a two-year project based in Marischal Museum, University of Aberdeen, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. It is assessing the beaker-related evidence from North-East Scotland (between the Moray Firth and the Firth of Tay), including the dating and stable isotope analyses of some 40 human skeletons from museum collections. The project builds on the North-East dates resulting from the Beaker People Project (Parker Pearson, 2006; Sheridan et al., 2006) and earlier programmes and studies (e.g. Shepherd, 1986). It also includes a consideration of beaker typology and manufacture, burial contexts, grave goods, human osteology and evidence for diet from stable isotope analysis

DNS in Computer Forensics

The Domain Name Service (DNS) is a critical core component of the global Internet and integral to the majority of corporate intranets. It provides resolution services between the human-readable name-based system addresses and the machine operable Internet Protocol (IP) based addresses required for creating network level connections. Whilst structured as a globally dispersed resilient tree data structure, from the Global and Country Code Top Level Domains (gTLD/ccTLD) down to the individual site and system leaf nodes, it is highly resilient although vulnerable to various attacks, exploits and systematic failures

Burning Pool

Burning Pool is a package that consists of: 250 limited-edition individually hand-painted and silk-screened album covers on recyclable card. Each sleeve has its own unique design and number and contains: • 12” vinyl with 2 x 10 min audio pieces • 1 x dvd with printed image containing “Burning Pool” a 24min film with different soundtrack to the vinyl. • 1 x A4 artwork • 1 x info sheet Burning Pool is a 24min. film, captured over 4 years, of Sheffield as a post-industrial city in transition. A lot of the buildings and landscapes are now gone or radically altered. The project was created as a response to the DIY ethic of the local music scene between 1979-81 that formed the “Do It Thissen” exhibition in Sheffield, 2015 where both artists performed live and created an installation. The enquiry was how to create and examine the function of an analogue product in the digital age. It also created a platform to explore the hauntological notion of “future ghosts” in the study of Sheffield as a post-industrial city in transformation. The film features iconic buildings such as the Hallam Towers, a distinctive landmark and the city’s first million-pound hotel which opened in 1965 and was demolished in as new finance streams reshape the built environment

The discovery of <i>Isocrinus</i> cf. <i>robustus</i> from the Lias Group (Lower Jurassic) near Dunrobin Castle, Sutherland, Scotland

A single stem section (pluricolumnal) belonging to a post-Palaeozoic crinoid (sea lily) is reported from a small outcrop of Lower Jurassic Lias Group strata exposed in low cliff near Dunrobin Castle. This is the first Jurassic crinoid recorded from Eastern Scotland and the small fragment has enough diagnostic characters to be assigned to the species Isocrinus cf. robustus; a crinoid found commonly in the Lower Jurassic of England. The Scottish form collected has unusual morphology that is atypical of the genus

Postcard from Corporal Neil S. Wright to Lt. Hubert Creekmore (undated)

Postcard from Neil S. Wright to Hubert Creekmore in Jackson, Mississippi regarding their visit in Tucson, AZ and sending holiday wishes.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/creekmore/1884/thumbnail.jp

Depth-dependent resolution quantification in 3D fluorescence microscopy

A method is presented to quantify resolution as a function of depth in features of morphologically complex 3D samples. Applying the method to the brain of Drosophila, resolution is measured at increasing depth throughout the central brain region. The results quantify improvements in image quality when using two-photon microscopy compared to confocal. It is also demonstrated how resolution improvements through tuning a single parameter, laser power, can be measured objectively. Since the metric is interpretable as the average resolution within a feature, it is suitable for comparing results across optical systems, and can be used to inform the design of biological experiments requiring resolution of structures at a specific scale.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure