NBC News Thursday November 3, 2022
A man has been acquitted by a jury after being charged with obstructing police during a mass shooting in Colorado last year. Dean Schiller had just left a Colorado supermarket after shopping last year when he heard gunshots and saw three people lying face down. The independent part-time journalist began livestreaming on his YouTube channel, before officers arrived, and later refused dozens of police orders to move away, notes NBC News. Schiller’s lawyers argued that being a temporary distraction does not equate to keeping police from doing their job.
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David Schonauer Thursday November 3, 2022
Famed American explorer and photographer Bradford Washburn traveled to the remote Yukon wilderness in 1937 to climb Mount Lucania, but bad weather forced him and fellow explorer Robert Bates to
abandoned a cache of heavy equipment, including cameras, and make their way back to civilization. In August, a seven-person expedition team recovered the cameras more than 12 miles from where they had
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CNET Wednesday November 2, 2022
Engineers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in northern California have spent the last seven years building the Legacy Survey of Space and Time, or LSST, camera—the largest digital camera in the world. How big is it? About size of a small car. The 3,200 megapixel camera, powerful enough to spot a golf ball 15 miles away, will be the heart of a new telescope at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in the mountains of Chile, where it will spend a decade mapping the entire southern sky.
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Smithsonian Wednesday November 2, 2022
The exhibition “A Window Suddenly Opens: Contemporary Photography in China” (through Jan. 7, 2023) is the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden’s first survey of photography by leading multigenerational Chinese artists made between the 1990s and 2000s. The selection of 141 works on view are a promised gift to the Hirshhorn from Larry Warsh, pioneering collector of Chinese art. Among the 25 artists represented are Cang Xin, Cao Fei, Lin Tianmiao, LuYang and Song Dong. The museum calls the gift transformative.
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