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Louis Pasteur: The Space of Life

ryan — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:08:59 +0000

A photo of mine from the Heidelburg Castle has been used in the documentary “Louis Pasteur: The Space of life“. The image used is from the chemistry laboratory at the castle and was used as the background for the laboratory of Jean Baptiste Biot, the man who discovered the chiral nature of tartaric acid.

As you can see below, they’ve zoomed in, then shrunk it, flipped it horizontally and used it as a background for scenes showing Louis Pasteur and Jean Baptiste Biot. It seems ironic to me that they used a mirror image for the background of a documentary about chirality :p

Louis Pasteur and Jean Baptiste Biot

Jean Baptiste Biot

My original photo from Heidelburg Castle

The documentary can be viewed on the LaRouche website:

My photo can be seen in the background between 6:20 – 7:46 and 19:58 and 22:02.

Leiden sunset

ryan — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:20:57 +0000

Vicki Argyle and I experienced this awesome sunset while in Leiden in the Netherlands.

Leiden

ryan — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:01:50 +0000

Victoria Argyle and I visited Suzanna and Cory Black in Leiden in the Netherlands.

Victoria Argyle and Suzanna Black

Amsterdam

ryan — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:31:52 +0000

Vicki and I used Amsterdam as our base for moving around Europe. They have lots of canals … lots of canals.

How do people deal with me?

ryan — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:33:27 +0000

Apparently this is what people resort to when stuck in Europe with me for a whole month!

Smoking from a huka.
I tried it too but I don't recommend it. It's kinda icky. Caffeine is still my drug of choice.

Insanity kicks in after a while and they start believing anything they're told. Frederick convinced Vicki that kissing the arse of the solider brought good luck.

Two bad photos in a row, so I thought I'd better include a nice one

More from London

ryan — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:18:37 +0000

Here are some photos I forgot to add from my trip around sooty, icky London.

Big Ben in London.

The Globe Theatre. Apparently this is where William Shakespeares' original plays were performed, albeit this is obviously not the original building.

Cologne

ryan — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 07:59:44 +0000

After traversing the Rhine, Vicky, Vikas and I headed north to Cologne. We didn’t spend much time there, but the huge Cathedral in the middle of the city sure is an impressive site. Construction started in 1248 and didn’t finish until 1880! It was the tallest man-made structure in the world until 1884.

The Cologne Cathedral

3D image of the inside of the Cologne Cathedral

Another 3D image of the inside of the Cologne Cathedral

Cologne was decimated after 262 air raids by the Western Allies during World War II. By the end of the war essentially all of Cologne’s pre-war Jewish population of 20,000 had been deported or killed. The photo below shows the devastation of the city.

Cologne in 1945. To see the full devastation in detail, view the high resolution version. Thanks to Wikipedia for the photo (which I obviously did not take!).

Rhine river

ryan — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:17:13 +0000

Vikas took Vicki and I up the scenic Rhine river. There are Castles everywhere along the banks of the river.

Hockenheimring

ryan — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:50:37 +0000

Vickas took Vicki and I to the Hockenheimring in Germany, the home of the German grandprix. There were no cars racing that day, just testing. But it was nice to see (in person) the track I’ve driven around in so many video games.

Random car circling around the Hockeheim grandprix track. Any ideas what kinda car this is?

German cows

ryan — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:44:08 +0000

Ya know how in the movies the cows in Germany have bells on them? Well apparently those crazy Germans actually do attach bells to the poor cows! I have no idea why they do this. Imagine how insane you would go if some dork attached a bell around your neck! Every time you moved you would hear an irritating bell sound.

I took the photos in the Black Forest in south western Germany.