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Enjoy the stars at Valley of the Gods, Utah!
Valley of the Gods is located west of Bluff, Utah. The scenery here is spectacular and similar to its famous neighbor, Monument Valley. A number of movies have been filmed here taking advantage of the dramatic rock monoliths and other classic western scenery. A 17 mile unpaved loop drive winds around the towering colorful formations. There are no developed facilities so come prepared to be self-sufficient. Camping is permitted and nighttime visitors are treated to some of the darkest skies in the U. S. with countless stars and the haze of the Milky Way visible on moonless nights.
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Night view of a Native American (Crow) wrapped in a blanket, he stands in front of a tepee with his back to a camp fire. - Throssel - 1907
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A Ring of Fire Blazes in the Middle of the Swiss Alps
A crystallised Neanderthal
On a long gone day sometime between 180 and 130,000 years ago one of our cousins exploring a cave suffered the misfortune of a fatal fall into a sinkhole in a limestone karst landscape in what is now Italy. After the soft parts decayed the skeleton was gradually covered in crystals of beautiful calcite precipitated from the saturated waters percolating through the rock from the rainy surface above (in much the same way that tourist caves often sell pots and other goods covered in white crystals). Now known as Altamura Man and discovered by some cavers in the Lamalunga Cave in 1993, it has also provided the oldest sample of our cousins DNA to date, as well as being the most complete set of early human remains known so far (even the bones in the nose remained intact).
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(Image caption: Individual neuron glowing with bioluminescent light produced by a new genetically engineered sensor. Credit: Johnson Lab / Vanderbilt University)
Bioluminescent sensor causes brain cells to glow in the dark
A new kind of bioluminescent sensor causes individual brain cells to imitate fireflies and glow in the dark.
The probe, which was developed by a team of Vanderbilt scientists, is a genetically modified form of luciferase, the enzyme that a number of other species including fireflies use to produce light. It is described in a paper published in the journal Nature Communications on Oct. 27.
The scientists created the technique as a new and improved method for tracking the interactions within large neural networks in the brain.
“For a long time neuroscientists relied on electrical techniques for recording the activity of neurons. These are very good at monitoring individual neurons but are limited to small numbers of neurons. The new wave is to use optical techniques to record the activity of hundreds of neurons at the same time,” said Carl Johnson, Stevenson Professor of Biological Sciences, who headed the effort.
“Most of the efforts in optical recording use fluorescence, but this requires a strong external light source which can cause the tissue to heat up and can interfere with some biological processes, particularly those that are light sensitive,” he said.
Based on their research on bioluminescence in “a scummy little organism, the green alga Chlamydomonas, that nobody cares much about” Johnson and his colleagues realized that if they could combine luminescence with optogenetics – a new biological technique that uses light to control cells, particularly neurons, in living tissue – they could create a powerful new tool for studying brain activity.
“There is an inherent conflict between fluorescent techniques and optogenetics. The light required to produce the fluorescence interferes with the light required to control the cells,” said Johnson. “Luminescence, on the other hand, works in the dark!”
Johnson and his collaborators – Associate Professor Donna Webb, Research Assistant Professor Shuqun Shi, post-doctoral student Jie Yang and doctoral student Derrick Cumberbatch in biological sciences and Professor Danny Winder and postdoctoral student Samuel Centanni in molecular physiology and biophysics – genetically modified a type of luciferase obtained from a luminescent species of shrimp so that it would light up when exposed to calcium ions. Then they hijacked a virus that infects neurons and attached it to their sensor molecule so that the sensors are inserted into the cell interior.
The researchers picked calcium ions because they are involved in neuron activation. Although calcium levels are high in the surrounding area, normally they are very low inside the neurons. However, the internal calcium level spikes briefly when a neuron receives an impulse from one of its neighbors.
They tested their new calcium sensor with one of the optogenetic probes (channelrhodopsin) that causes the calcium ion channels in the neuron’s outer membrane to open, flooding the cell with calcium. Using neurons grown in culture they found that the luminescent enzyme reacted visibly to the influx of calcium produced when the probe was stimulated by brief light flashes of visible light.
To determine how well their sensor works with larger numbers of neurons, they inserted it into brain slices from the mouse hippocampus that contain thousands of neurons. In this case they flooded the slices with an increased concentration of potassium ions, which causes the cell’s ion channels to open. Again, they found that the sensor responded to the variations in calcium concentrations by brightening and dimming.
“We’ve shown that the approach works,” Johnson said. “Now we have to determine how sensitive it is. We have some indications that it is sensitive enough to detect the firing of individual neurons, but we have to run more tests to determine if it actually has this capability.”
Each of these orchids is a work of art.
There are more than 100 stunning blooms featured at the 2017 Orchid Exhibition by Smithsonian Gardens and the United States Botanic Garden. This is the first time the annual show is at our @hirshhorn museum, where orchids act as colorful, time-based installations that constantly change over the course of the exhibition.
You can see “orchids: A MOMENT” through May 14.

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Fluid Porcelain Bowls by Aylin Bilgiç Look Like Splashes Frozen in Time
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Regenerative Reliquary
2016-Present
Leveraging the intelligence of human stem cells, bioartist Amy Karle created this 3D bioprinted scaffold made of a biodegradable hydrogel that disintegrates over time, with the intention that stem cells seeded onto that design will eventually grow into tissue and mineralize into bone along that shape. Karle’s work opens a new form of artwork, as well as expanding opportunities for enhancing our bodies, biomedical applications, and making things that were never possible to create before.
a shot from “Insatiable” 2016
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photographer, Clara Pathe
model, Kui Kui
A shot from “Insatiable” 2016
designer, Anna C. Bodell
model, Kui Kui
photographer, Clara Pathe
"Second Skin"
A study in nudity, nakedness and intimacy in the modern western culture of excess and voyeurism.
Model: Erin Kathryn Morrill
Anna C. Bodell
2015

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Designer, Photographer: Anna C. Bodell
2015
"Second Skin"
Model: Erin Kathryn Morrill
Anna C. Bodell
2015