Bharti Kher - Artist

Bharti Kher is a contemporary artist. In a career spanning nearly three decades, she has worked across painting, sculpture and installation. Throughout her practice she has displayed an unwavering relationship with the body, its narratives, and the nature of things. 

Inspired by a wide range of sources and making practices, she employs the readymade in wide arc of meaning and transformation. Kher's works thus appear to move through time, using reference as a counterpoint and contradiction as a visual tool.


Kher was born in London, England, in 1969. She studied at Middlesex Polytechnic, London, from 1987 to 1988, and then attended the Foundation Course in Art and Design at Newcastle Polytechnic from 1988 to 1991, receiving a BA Honours in Fine Art, Painting. She moved to India in 1993, where she lives and works today.

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Science & Technology
> OpenAI identifies, bans Chinese group that used ChatGPT to build AI-powered surveillance tools to monitor anti-Chinese government content across X, Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms (More)

> Researchers report prototype battery material with a potential energy capacity double that of current Li-ion batteries; fluoride-ion device expected to find use in future electric vehicle applications (More) | How electric vehicles work (1440 Topics)

> Study of Viking skulls reveals the population suffered from a broad range of severe diseases and infections, including osteoarthritis, abnormal jaw and bone growth, and more (More)


Business & Markets
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Politics & World Affairs
> President Donald Trump taps Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan Caine as new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (More) | Trump administration puts majority of USAID staff on leave, eliminates 2,000 US-based positions (More) | ... and asks around 300 health researchers to return to posts after broad firings (More) | Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency says federal employees must detail last workweek or risk termination; a number of agencies tell staff to ignore email (More)

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> France's largest child sex abuse trial begins today; former surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec is accused of molesting nearly 300 patients, mostly minors (More)

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Males in Female Sports

 

SIMPLE QUESTION...

Should biological males who want to be female, participate in female sports?

The Democrats say YES

The Republicans say NO

When Americans were polled, 69% of them said NO

As a male, I cannot imagine ANY FEMALE wanting to compete with biological males because they have bigger bones and bigger muscle mass, regardless of the pills they take.

President Trump has signed an Executive Order indicating that biological males cannot play in female sports but there are several FEMALE GOVERNORS who are not going to comply.

Consequently, they will take the federal government to court.

Who knows what the outcome will be if the judge leans towards the democratic party.

Judges are not supposed to favor one party over another party but that does not always happen.

Biological males have a RIGHT to be a female, if that is their desire...  and I support that 100%, but I cannot in all good consciousness agree or even imagine why males want to compete against females.

Somewhat Political

 

When Did Time Begin?

Our universe is expanding, so it must have been smaller in the past. Indeed, if we rewind our cosmological movie, we see the universe shrinking back almost to a point – the big bang – some 13.8 billion years ago. Is this when time began? Alas, things aren’t so simple. 

Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity tells us that the backdrop of the universe is a fluid continuum, space-time, in which neither space nor time has an absolute meaning. What’s more, at the big bang, space-time distorts into a point of infinite density called a singularity. We can’t say this is where time begins, only that it marks a rupture beyond which we cannot extrapolate.


Even so, some cosmologists believe there was a “before” the big bang. Some suggest that another universe preceded ours, and that this one contracted and then “bounced” at the big bang, resulting in the expanding era we now observe. 

More radically, cosmologist Roger Penrose has proposed that new universes can emerge from ones that don’t contract, through a dramatic “rescaling” of all space-time.     READ MORE...

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Education

What Should K-12 Education 

Focus On in 2025 and Beyond?

Pondering

 

Starbucks is cutting 1,100 jobs 

and simplifying its menu in the 

US as it tries to improve flagging 

business in its home market.

I like Starbucks coffee and when I get a Starbucks coffee it is usually a vanilla cappuccino.  I get this coffee only when I am in possession of a gift card.

Why?

Because Starbucks coffee is too damn expensive...  and the good taste does not offset the price in my opinion.

I am not sure what coffee beans that Starbucks uses, but I am sure it is a blend that uses Kona coffee beans, and it is perhaps the Kona coffee beans that give the coffee its good taste.

In East TN, we have a convenience store chain called Weigel's that also uses Kona coffee beans in their blend of coffees as well.  Weigel's put in new coffee machines so that each cup of coffee is ground right there in the machine as the hot water pours over it, similar to French Press coffee.

Weigel's coffee is fresh, uses Kona coffee beans and costs only $2.50 for an extra-large Styrofoam cup and if you bring back the cup, you get refills for $2.25.

Compare this price to Starbuck's price of $6.00+ for a cup about 2/3 the size of Weigel's cup.

THREE CUPS OF WEIGEL'S VERSUS ONE CUP OF STARBUCKS

It is kinda like a no brainer decision...

Snowbirds

 

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Fitness

Set realistic goals: Avoid setting extreme goals that can lead to discouragement.

Find a fitness buddy: Having someone to motivate you can help you stick to your routine.

Get enough sleep: Poor sleep can disrupt your appetite and performance.

Drink water: Staying hydrated can help you eat less and lose weight.

Mix up your workouts: Doing the same exercises all the time can lead to boredom.

Eat a balanced diet: Be mindful of how many carbs you eat, and when you eat them.

Manage stress: Stress can lead to weight gain by increasing the production of cortisol, a stress hormone.

Stretch: Dynamic stretching before exercise and static stretching after can help increase flexibility.

Strengthen your core: Exercise your abdominals 2 or 3 times a week.

Some other tips include: 

• Cutting down on screen time
• Personalizing your workouts
• to regulate your emotion

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Irina Isayevna Nakhova (Russian: Ирина Исаевна Нахова; born 1955 in Moscow) is a Russian artist. 

Her father, Isai Nakhov, is a philologist. At 14 years old her mother took her to Victor Pivovarov's Atelier. Pivovarov played an important role in her life and later became her mentor. 

In 2015, Nakhova became the first female artist to represent Russia in its pavilion at the Venice Biennial. She is represented by Nailya Alexander Gallery in New York City.[3] Nakhova currently lives and works in Moscow and New Jersey. 

She works with different mediums like fine art, photography, sounds, sensors and inflatable materials. She is a Laureate of the Kandinsky 2013 Award.

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How do nuclear weapons work?


Nuclear weapons harness the immense energy released by nuclear fission or fusion reactions. In a fission bomb, a critical mass of fissilematerial is rapidly assembled, triggering a chain reaction that releases enormous amounts of energy in a fraction of a second. This easy-to-follow overview presents the basic science behind the atomic bomb. Read it here.



Who was the real Robert Oppenheimer?


No one person is more closely identified with the Manhattan Project than Robert Oppenheimer. This feature details Oppenheimer’s upbringing, the characteristics that made him indispensable to the project, and how his later years were marked by a conflict between pride in the project and a deep-seated hatred of weapons of mass destruction. Read it here.



The secret cities behind the atomic bomb

To get the Manhattan Project off the ground, the US government built three research facilities from the ground up. To preserve the secrecy of the project, those facilities were located in out-of-the-way locations. Finally, to house the thousands of workers at each location, the government also built “secret cities.” Find out more in this article.



A podcast series reveals the secrets of the Manhattan Project

The Manhattan Project involved some of the most prominent figures of the 20th century, ended World War II, and ushered in the Atomic Age. This four-part podcast delves into everything from the project’s origins to the “secret cities” that sprung up around its three project sites—as well as how the project led Oppenheimer to oppose nuclear weapons. Listen here.



What does a nuclear bomb explosion feel like?

After World War II, governments conducted thousands of additional tests. Motherboard interviews veterans who were present at test sites in the Pacific, and shares their experiences of witnessing nuclear explosions. This video combines interviews with archival footage to convey what it’s like to be near a nuclear blast. Watch it here.



Footage of Russia's Tsar Bomba test

In 1961, the Soviet Union dropped what is thought to be the most powerful nuclear weapon ever actually tested. Named AN602, it is more commonly known as the Tsar Bomba. Russia released footage of the blast in 2020, and the video—shared here by the Reuters news agency—underscores the destructive power of nuclear warfare. Watch the footage here.

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Freedoms

 

Americans have more freedoms than any other country in the world...

• Freedom of speech
• Freedom of assembly
• Freedom of the press
• Freedom of religion
• Freedom to own a firearm

 Americans don't just have Federal Rights but State Rights as well.

For instance:

• The federal government say marijuana is illegal, yet some states say it is legal and our federal government does not interfere.
• Some states say abortion is legal while other states say it is illegal - our federal government says that right belongs to the states.

Expressing our freedoms:

• Americans can protest against the government and not be thrown into jail
• Americans can burn the American flag and not be thrown into jail
• Americans can write and publish anti-American opinions and not be thrown into jail
• Americans can vote themselves a felon for President
• Americans can vote themselves out of a Democracy and into Socialism or Communism

Think about that...

Americans are so free that they can vote themselves out of a Democracy and can vote for the government to take away their freedoms...