Ideal Christmas gifts for scientists | Dean Burnett

With the holiday season, people are desperately trying to find the right gifts for their loved ones. But what if you need to buy a gift for a scientist? Consumer culture tends to ignore fans scientific market, so there are relatively few conventional products intended for them. The only solution is to invent a new

is the holiday season, which means that people have to buy gifts. Buying gifts can be stressful at the best of times, but it can be even worse if you need a gift for a scientist fanatic / science. These people, by definition, such as science, but there is relatively little in the way of common products that meet this growing demographic of fans of science-types apparently. Science and technology are, of course, heavily involved in the development and manufacture of almost all consumer products purchased as gifts regularly. All Smartphones, Tablet PC and console is the final result of large quantities of advanced research and development. But even their storage costs generic deodorant lot of science behind them.

Almost nobody cares much. It seems that science is merely a means to an end, when it comes to consumer goods, which is used and unmanned in any way. People are more inclined to consider the science behind his shiny new possession as Starbucks ask the bartender what kind of machine used to grind grain. With this kind of attitude to face, why would you produce articles that focus on possible gifts and celebrate science itself?

Then someone told me that you can buy caffeine infused panties. Ie pants infused with microcapsules that release caffeine. Caffeine intends to fight against cellulite or something, do not you wake up is more typical. Caffeine is apparently quite common in products of skin care. It's a bit more reassuring, there are many vehicles for drug delivery, but "short" is not usually one of them.

But whatever the mechanism of the actual or anticipated these clothes, and regardless of whether they work or not (not, apparently), I found comfort in his own life . This shows that, at some point, someone suggested "the administration of caffeine Knickers" product as possible, instead of alcohol, they are serious and things are done. I think logic is that if there is someone to buy. And if it happened once it can happen again.

In this spirit, I thought I'd suggest some possible products make ideal gifts for lovers of science. If anyone is interested in reading this and able to, please do so. I do not want royalties or anything.

EDITION MONOPOLY March

The beloved property board game development interplanetary March edition. The whole family can experience the thrill of the colonization and terraforming our sister world, since the game has been redesigned to take the realities of life on Mars in mind.

The board is about half the size of standard dice but only go as high as 2 due to gravity and thin atmosphere that requires a slower pace. Each player starts the game with $ 6 million. None of this has been said and there is no infrastructure for land costs nothing to buy, but the construction of a hotel is ridiculously expensive and largely useless anyway. The main excitation is provided by the random cards that say things like "Life Discover, be famous forever," "explosive decompression experience, dying almost instantly" and "You learn that everything I did in the game until a false memory was implanted 'Memories'. back to the beginning, do not collect $ 200. "

"Monopoly: March edition." It promises a lot of fun slow, dangerous for all ages

BATMAN: ARKHAM psychiatric ward

The latest installment of the popular video game franchise sees the Dark Knight against his biggest challenge yet: his own fractured psyche.

finally realize that dressing like a nocturnal flying mammal and engage in constant clashes with criminals increasingly sophisticated can not be normal behavior, Batman admits that the death of their parents may have left with serious psychological problems, it is checked in the mental asylum of Gotham known legitimate.

battle with mental problems that have plagued Batman since childhood. Discover the lasting effects of post-traumatic stress, depression, psychosis and borderline. Deal with the many side effects of psychotropic drugs, such as olanzapine, SSRIs and others that you are trying to find the right balance of drugs to ensure the normal functioning cognitively. CRY gently regular sessions with a therapist will help you reach an agreement with his grief and pain, and we hope to move forward as a person.

"Batman: Arkham Psychiatric Ward" is an exciting journey through the practice of mental health from the perspective of someone obviously sick. It also has a new online multiplayer mode where multiple players can participate in a group therapy session, where you can talk about issues of anger and insecurity, while trying to avoid calling each other "fagot" every 8 seconds.

WHERE IS

Higgs?

You've heard of Where's Waldo? Well, now it's time for science to which the sample is difficult to obtain in the game with the "Where's Higgs?" Puzzle Book. Each book contains pages and pages of scenarios devilishly difficult in a single Higgs boson is hidden in a complex image and must be found. To make things easier, each Higgs particle (or the mark of an artist) was dramatically reduced, and measures a huge diameter of 0.5 nm. Special mechanisms of the printing ink: the Higgs boson is only visible when the book is colder than the vacuum of space, and generally requires the combined efforts of hundreds of people to watch. The Higgs boson can be considered "found" when enough people agree that there probably.

"Where's Higgs?" Just below the bust-ups charades family is guaranteed.

PSYCHOLOGY

SET HOME

to taste the pleasure of being a professional psychologist studies human behavior at home with all Psychology startup. Each group consists of almost nothing but documents, including forms required to explain the basis and because of his experience (design it yourself), the form required to apply for grants, forms for ethical approval , magazine articles model for writing, forms, subject recruitment patterns, and much more.

Fill

all, run the test, recording your results confirm their hypothesis and experience the true to have someone with the same game tells you that you are wrong then cruelly mocked by anyone that a chemical microscope kit or are not "clean" science.

MY LITTLE gender stereotype

as they grow older, girls are under considerable pressure to meet

an increasing number of feminine ideal that demands unthinking and uncaring society. Why not do it all in one convenient package with the doll My Little Gender Stereotype?

MLGS The doll is a pop star fairy nurse who plans her wedding, so she runs a kitchen (national), discusses realistic baby kitten and also turns into a horse or a unicorn or something. It also has realistic hair that can be styled and idealized anatomical proportions that are impossible to achieve with normal human physiology. Despite this, it also comes with a selection of fake Daily Mail describing their "defects" worrisome physical detail.


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At Art Basel Miami Beach, the stars line up to be seen -and be shocked

connected American art fair has a reputation for pool parties and hedonism, but sales this year is expected to top £ 1.5 billion

Media

hour VIP preview Wednesday Art Basel Miami Beach, the largest contemporary art fair in the United States, P Diddy sweeps with his entourage. In aviator shades and dressed all in black, bar the Gucci logo on his shirt, Diddy is famous enough to attract attention, even among the visitors of the hip and rich milling in the aisles. Now in its 11th year, is an artistic event ABMB to see and be seen. For the uninitiated, it is easy to feel overwhelmed and exhausted by ABMB. If you think London is too eventful in the frieze just stay away from Miami this year, there were at least 17 art fairs taking place simultaneously. Art around the city with pop-up exhibitions, a new museum, film screenings, public sculptures (including a black dog King Kong companies) and street art by people like Shepard Fairey, the creator of the famous Obama "Hope" poster.

Then there are the games that attract artists like Kanye West and Pharrell Williams, movie stars like Will Ferrell and Demi Moore and reality TV star Kim Kardashian.

On opening night, Wendi Deng, wife of Rupert Murdoch, co-hosted an event for Chanel Soho House South Beach, while the afterparty in a pop-up Recreational Silence Club David Lynch movies

Mulholland Drive

attracted queues in the early hours before the Delano hotel. Judd Tully, editor of magazine

Art + Auction and veteran of the series, said: "Miami is a party town You have to be young or a glutton for. Punishment ".

Delano Tuesday night, a crowd is transmitted by a party to the beach club for the next event. In the evening the White Cube gallery in Soho House, The Uninvited, hoping to obtain, are pushed behind the barrier ropes. Inside, a melee bettors sneak in crowded bars to the beach and poolside DJ sets. Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and White Cube owner Jay Jopling are apparently comfortable in their VVIP section undisclosed.

anxiety state infects the conversation. Disco pool, a young Canadian collector complains that it can also participate in the early hours because "everything is good pre-sale. I'll probably get there and find a woman of 80 years, I bought what I want. "

The hedonistic atmosphere has often attracted criticism of the show, including showing the charges that attracts little interest in contemporary art. Wendy Cromwell, an art consultant and frequent visitor based in New York, says that the serious collector base has increased in recent years.

"The kind of people who came at the beginning, I just wanted to party and hang on to the coat-tails of the art world. But the show has gained legitimacy among collectors. Even New York [exhibitions] can not compete. The Armory Show has lost its luster, and Frieze New York last year people complained that it was not as good as Miami. "

This year, the commercial importance was reinforced ABMB for damage during Hurricane sand by many participating galleries in New York. Tully said: "Some dealers are really counting on this show to make money to survive."

Nichole Caruso

Wallspace Gallery in Manhattan, said his basement unit - which contains hundreds of drawings, paintings and sculptures - was submerged. "It was like a swimming pool. Part of this work will be with the Conservatives for months, even years. " The value of the work sold by international galleries over 260 ABMB is estimated at £ 1.5 billion. Notable sales included at the beginning Hirst

Capaneus

• , kaleidoscopic play of butterflies, moths, spiders and beetles which sold for £ 600,000, and almost star Jeff Koons sculpture size Buster Keaton silent film, with a price between £ 3 billion and £ 3.5 billion.
Koons sparked a wave with the news that more would show with the gallery owner David Zwirner next year in apparent defection to rival Zwirner Larry Gagosian, art dealer of the world's powerful.

However, there are more than usual star names available. Although only 10% of the participating galleries are American, the show offers perhaps the most important international exhibition for local artists. This reflects the growing importance of wealthy collectors in South America, particularly in Brazil, the fair has helped to stimulate. The White Cube opened a new space in São Paulo ABMB just before this year, Gagosian set to follow next year.

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Blatter hands the FA £314,000

FIFA president calls check medical center

London . mind 2012 was a catalyst for change, says Blatter

Nearly two years after the all-time low after the failed attempt of the England World Cup, Sepp Blatter, has said that the relationship between football and the FIFA Association are fully repaired in a one visit president of world football governing body for the new national football center in the park of San Jorge.

Blatter

through the pouring rain to be greeted Staffordshire with a big smile at the reception at the Hilton on the site of the man she had been in open war only 18 months earlier.

was the FA chairman David Bernstein, who was standing in the 2011 Congress of FIFA in Zurich allegations of corruption swirling around the organization and said Blatter should not be allowed to be re-elected without opposition.

After exchanging pleasantries

, flags, medals and other various accessories related to the visit of the FIFA President, Joseph S. Blatter said that the FA is now a good friend of the governing body of world football.

"What we see today is nothing but cooperation in football." S In friendship, in recognition of the work that has been done here by the FA in the park of San Jorge. No return in the past are now living a wonderful day -. 'S this, "said Blatter, who announced that the FA has received $ 500,000 (£ 313.720) of its Goal project at the medical center in the premises of £ 100 million

"It is a gift, and the gift today for me was this wonderful center, the Park San Jorge. And we'll go tomorrow, because tomorrow may be used by everyone and it is a good thing for the development of football. As the FA celebrate its 150th anniversary next year, it really is a step in this direction. "

The FA also announced that it will host nine coaches promising international football as part of a new scholarship program.

Previously, it was estimated that the work of the Football Association of International Development had not received the credit he deserved, but the general secretary Alex Horne said now channel their assistance through the through FIFA and UEFA, rather than unilaterally implement projects.

also defended Meta grant application, saying that if they had been generally accorded to developing countries, European countries have recently been invited to bid for them.

Bernstein said he had worked hard to build bridges with Blatter in his re-election as FIFA president. "We have worked hard to respond directly to FIFA. Understand that we want to be in the tent and part of the international community. You want to do everything we can, "he said.

• Six months before the England 2018 World Cup bid team had been humiliated in Zurich when they arrived with high hopes and the Prime Minister in the trailer and left bruised after collection not only English-vote.

In his autobiography, published recently, Lord Coe said that, apart from the load arrogance often leveled the Nominating Committee has done much to try to erase unsucessfully, Blatter has not classified the operation of football in England.

"Blatter told me once." His game is run by idiots is not run by brilliant people ",". Writing

After FIFA was punished by the media after the selection of Russia to host the 2018 World Cup and Qatar will host the tournament in 2022, Blatter has accused English "arrogance" and are " bad losers ".

Blatter downplayed the problems Coe claims, saying they were "a thing of the past," and insisted that English football has lost its reputation for arrogance, have adopted best practices in the world to inform the development of the Park San Jorge.

"You're a good football socio What I learned today is that the FA is looking into the world." What are the best training centers "They realized, and that's fine," he said, after a two-hour tour around the hotels, offices, conference rooms, a spa and training centers which are the compound.

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The Mousetrap at 60: why is this the world's longest-running play?

Agatha Christie whodunit is 60 years. What is the secret of his longevity? Stephen Moss goes behind the scenes of "snow room" and the pub for a sing-song with the cast

Quentin Tarantino saw The Mousetrap

two years ago. I would have said that, because when I recently called the work, which this week clocks 60 years in the West End of London, I could not help but wonder what I could do with creaky old Agatha Christie thriller. Blood, gore, black humor, talk tortuous. Could be great, but probably only lasts two weeks.

I've always been fascinated by The Mousetrap, which was in the Ambassadors Theatre 22 years after its creation in 1952, before moving to atmosphere side of St. Martin. I checked the sign changed every year on its facade - "60 years" who preaches today - and questioned outside groups tour in Japan. But I had never seen until last week, when, on the occasion of the joint celebration of its 60th anniversary and its 25,000 th performance I saw, not once but three times.

a Tuesday morning is probably not the best place to start: about 100 followers in a 550-seat theater. The first thing you notice is a wooden panel in the hall: "This performance is the number 24 993 Agatha Christie The Mousetrap, the longest in the world to launch the game." Many participants were photographed with him, claiming its place in the history of theater.

A young woman is out with her grandmother, who uses a wheelchair. Asked a man in a costume for a ramp, thinking that it is the staff. It is not - it is here to see the game - but seek one anyway. We are, after all, a big family. Linda Allcock, against Birmingham with her husband, Roger, is celebrating her birthday. "I always wanted to see The Mousetrap," he said later in the interval. "So I said," Well, I'm 60 years old, his 60th birthday. - I'll go see Agatha Christie I love you. " I wonder if it worked for that. She hazards a guess. I told her she could be in for a surprise. "He was a member of the audience?" Roger takes a brilliant suggestion.

There are eight cast members, each signed by a season of 47 weeks. More than 400 actors who have appeared in recent years. Richard Attenborough was the original Sergeant Trotter and his wife, Sheila Sim, the first Mollie Ralston - Hostel owner Monkswell Manor, which inevitably overwhelmed (which does not prevent Trotter arrives on skis residents say that s 'is the first murderer). But alongside Attenborough and Sim, few players were headliners. The Mousetrap is a star vehicle, the work and its author are the stars

The drama became the longest running show in the history of British theater and in April 1958 (reproduced below, did not run as long as they do now). From that moment, says producer Stephen Waley-Cohen, "began to develop its own momentum." I liken it to Madame Tussauds and the changing of the guard - something you must do if you visit London. But public is not, as conventional wisdom suggests, mainly composed of foreign tourists. Most are from other parts of the United Kingdom, for them, the trap is part of the London experience. It's like a quasi-religious ritual, with the public as part of a process than plaster.

Geoff Bullen, the current director, agrees that it is a rite of passage, but insists that it works as theater, too. "The work is plentiful and not only the characters cardboard cutouts," he said. "It is very well organized - the height of The Dream of a Summer Night." Charles Spencer, drama critic of the Daily Telegraph, it looks more like a nightmare afternoon in winter. "San Martin Theatre one of the most attractive theaters of the West End, "he wrote last year," and it is a tragedy that has been filled with tosh so painful for so long. " Telegraph readers, constituency work naturally turned to him.

More than a dream

November morning, I might have opted for the current version running Mayflower Southampton, where he played until 2000, strong home for a week. "The crowd was attentive and focused," says Ian Watt-Smith, director of the exhibition, "with lots of laughs and oh and ah at fairs." The 60-week visit was organized to coincide with the anniversary, but it is an isolated event: San Martin likes to protect their assets, pending viewers to come to London to see her. This also explains why there has never been a film.

• The book is a curious mixture of comedy and a murder mystery show in 1950. The key, says Watt-Smith, and not send it up. "Focus on the reality of the situation of each person is trapped in this guest house - .. They have no means of communicating with the outside world, and the murderer is among them no, c ' is that they all seem to have secrets from you .. should encourage characters to play the actual bottom, then cover, which is a challenge. "

Waley-Cohen added: ".. because it works in the period and is absolutely right or camp not knowing" However, given that most people will see it as a phenomenon rather than a game, of course there is an awareness of its historical baggage? "A little," he says, "but the public distribution. Expect actors pretend that it is a work of new construction in 1950."

The next night, I see the trap again, but this time behind the stage, sitting with the actors. They make me feel very welcome and showed me the room "snow" where all visitors Monkswell Manor receives a thick layer of white scales (foam pad) before going on stage, but offered to let me turn the historical wind machine (as used in the original production) and take me to a pub in Soho after singing traditional Wednesday night.

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The EU should take a harder line on Russia's democratic deficit

European leaders should follow the example of Germany against Russia and collectively in their governance and human rights

Europe was a busy place recently, so it is not surprising that Angela Merkel's visit to Moscow a few days ago has attracted little attention. But never mind, because, unlike most official visits, this time pointing to a real change, not only in Germany but all the EU's relations with Russia.

The bottom line is that a number of countries in Central Europe, led by Germany, have so far maintained a close relationship with Moscow. This relationship is based on two pillars: energy dependence, and the reluctance, given the size of Russia and the recent history about it too much, too soon in the areas of human rights and democratic governance

• The two pillars are erosion. Merkel unprecedented visit was preceded by a serious dispute of Russian-German relations human rights. The Bundestag (encouraged by the office of Angela Merkel) adopted a resolution criticizing Russian democracy back. The Kremlin has responded with a furious attack Merkel point man in Russia, Andreas Schockenhoff. The tour itself was closed with a press conference where awkward amidst warm words on normal trade and future cooperation agreements, Putin abruptly Merkel embarrassed by implying that he was soft on antisemitism alleged member imprisoned Pussy Riot "" pop band. The word after the visit to Berlin is that while economic cooperation is important that Russia can expect much less latitude on human rights in the future.
• The ratio of the energy is changing. Europe depends on Russia for 25% of its gas. It was an unpleasant surprise for some European governments when, in 2005 and 2009, an interruption of Russian supplies caused Europeans to cool homes. This is the work of European Ministers to avoid these losses, and conducted their relations with Russia accordingly. But the so-called shale gas revolution - opening vast new reserves in the world by conventional extraction - could put an end to Russian domination of the European market in the next few years. The United States has, in ten years, from a deficit of high-power gas surplus. Prices of Russian exports to Germany were forced down, and seems even lower. The European Commission, the Russian officer anger, suddenly found the courage to implement what seems sure to be a bitter and intense action antitrust against the Russian monopoly on gas exports, Gazprom. It will be seen by the Russian elite, with its intimate interest in issues of gas, as an obstacle to the jugular. However, it is clear that the balance of forces on the European energy market is changing.

hope to someone in Brussels, London or Berlin joining the points. EU policy towards Russia has so far been very ineffective. The union is divided between, on the one hand, those who, like Poland and Estonia mainly on Russia as a threat is not rebuilt, and on the other hand, those who, like Germany and Italy, which should be considered important and supplier of higher energy and business partner. When I was ambassador to Moscow, the inability of the EU to gather in scandals like the murder of Litvinenko and the cyber attacks against Estonia was extreme. And the Russians, of course, given the disunity and exploited to the maximum.

This is changing. As shown in Merkel's visit, there is a deep disappointment in the EU on the political course of Russia. Russia Acolytes key advice from the EU - MM Schroeder and Berlusconi - have disappeared. The noose of dependence on Russian gas is released. It is time for the EU to find a common approach to Russia effectively. This two-pronged. Firstly, maintaining relations with Russia through the expansion of trade and other contacts. Reform will only come with economic growth. But on the other hand, much more clearly with Russia on issues of governance and human rights. Not the least of the virtues of the EU met in this way would be the impact on Russia itself. The Russians consider themselves Europeans. The best of them want their country to meet the highest European standards. A united Europe strongly support these standards would be a huge hit in the arm for those who take real risks to move Russia in the European concert.

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How Psy taught me Gangnam Style

Korean pop star psy invented "style Gangnam" mocking the pretensions of wealthy citizens of Seoul. Since then, with 700 million views on YouTube, David Cameron, Barack Obama and Ban Ki-moon, learned movements. But who is he, and he can teach Jay Rayner? Hey sexy lady ...

. Video: Watch Jay Rayner Psy teach moves

Learn to dance like a horse is very, very difficult, even if you have a good teacher - and mine is the best in the world. He is stocky, soft-cheeked 34-year-old Korean man wearing a tuxedo bright co-respondent shoes without socks and enough to believe Makeup-Katie Price as an ambassador for the natural look. Psych Psycho court - whose real name is Park Jae-sang - is the biggest pop star on the planet right now. He is credited with the destruction of cultural barriers for the world of dance. I should be in good hands. The clip of her song "Gangnam Style", published in July, is officially the most "wanted" never in YouTube - 5m hours and counting. It is the second most watched after Justin Bieber "Baby", with over 700 million page views (and counting. Everything in this story is moving forward). He went to No. 1 in 28 countries. It is entirely in Korean.

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The track, brazenly mocking the pretensions of those who wrongly associated with modes and styles Gangnam Seoul sprauncy - a kind of South Korea, Beverly Hills - what has been called a " peacekeeping force in the world, "Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Not bad for a bunch of dance moves involving an accessory with his legs like a horse, his hands crossed at the wrists as if holding the reins, followed by a whipping action. Flash Mobs 30,000 people danced Gangnam style. Boris Johnson said Gangnam style danced with David Cameron at Chequers weekend. Barack Obama promised Michelle Gangnam dance style to the White House. This is the way to keep a relationship alive.

Therefore, Psy was called to teach dance to others. He taught Britney Spears. He taught Justin Bieber. And now the poor devil must teach me a man who, when they handed the feet, was clearly in line with the brand "fish." We are in the middle of a ballroom at the Dorchester Hotel in London, followed by his entourage and a team of photographers and video there to record the moment for posterity not thank us for the effort. He shows me the double jump from one foot to the other, a random rhythm that must be mastered before crossing into dolls games. Levanto copy on the right foot, and ...

But let us stop here for now, standing in the middle of an empty ballroom, I lifted one foot twisted inward, Psy me as if I'm afraid of falling. (I May) Is a few hours ago, we met at the headquarters of the BBC Radio 1 roadshow Psy and just roll into town. The day before, he spoke to students at the Oxford Union, in English he learned during four years of study in the United States. You now have a shiny limousine, a herd of paparazzi objective tumescent and a crowd of fans waiting.

left South Korea a month ago, in an international tour that took confess surprise. He uploaded the video to YouTube on July 15. In the days since the talk on Twitter Robbie Williams, Katy Perry and Tom Cruise. Would he get a management contract with Scooter Braun, who also manages Justin Bieber, and countless parodies on YouTube spawn. Among them is a tail coat "style Eton" by the students of the school, the other by a group of Klingons, a "Jewish style" and almost inevitably grinding together "Gangnam Style" with Hitler in the scene his bunker movie Downfall

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Psy hear interviewed on radio and television during our time together, and as expected, there will be a series of lines of action which again, is no less true for repetition. "I do not call that success," says DJ Scott Mills, a journalist from Radio 1

NEW

, Jonathan Ross and finally to me. "It is a phenomenon. This is not for me. 'S Made by the people. "

He knows the difference. The fact is that all Psy may be new to many of us, success is nothing new to him. "The style of Gangnam" is a single from her sixth album. Took it topped the charts in South Korea for a dozen years, which means that the character has been unleashed on the world - is a character - is fully formed.'s important is to understand the character, how you start from people who claim to be intelligent in the way it is perceived in Gangnam, where he grew Psy.

"I'm not beautiful," she said, and it is useless to argue with him. Despite his charisma, which is exceptional. What is it, however, is brilliant timing comic, a way to use a caricature of the implacability of Asia which is simply devastating. "This is why" Gangnam style works, "he said. "If someone uses this expression is beautiful just uncomfortable. But if someone like me who uses it is fun."

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The success of the last song has been hailed by many as a break-out to the K-Pop, a particular brand of brilliant music, brilliant and is largely dominate the Asian charts. Unless the K-Pop exploded long ago. Driven by the power of social media, K-Pop acts such as rain, Wonder Girls and SM city has filled the largest stadiums in the United States since 2006. Similarly, while Psy is Korean pop music is certainly not common K-Pop. In a very conservative society, most K-Pop artists are prepared by a renowned celebrity school - dance lessons, singing lessons, how to deal with the media - before the audience erupted in a safe very strong calibrated to offend as few people as possible.

Psy is completely self-invented. Son of a wealthy businessman, he suspended his studies. Sent to study business in Boston in the 90s, he completed the course of contemporary music at the prestigious Berklee College of Music (also unfinished). He has never been afraid to offend. Their first album,
• World Psy
• Psycho
• , launched in 2001, it took a fine for "inappropriate content". Their second album lodged complaints that their content can have a negative impact on children and prohibits the sale to minors of 19 years.
• There was an arrest for possession of marijuana and a. Clash with the authorities for not showing enough commitment to the attributes of military service (a serious problem in a country still officially at war with North Korea) As he says now: "Before" Gangnam-Style was not a good attitude was bad ass artist they have not a hope of me in morality ... "This is nothing. Has been given an honor even to" increase the interest of the world in Korea. " It is not that it is particularly happy. "It is a big responsibility. I do not want it. I am not responsible for Gangnam Style '. And now, I must be good."

We have troops in the studio of Radio 1 DJ Scott Mills for a taped interview. Mills is credited with breaking the track here and helping the number one. In a master stroke of his production team asked the Radio 4 continuity Kathy Clugston read the words "Style Gangnam" on the BBC cut glass voice: "I am a man, a man who convex ideas rather than bulging muscles, a guy who goes crazy when the time comes. "Just stressed comedy.

Mills asked what he thinks later. Psy says it will do another album, but only half in English. The rest remain in Korea. The fact is that a number of K-Pop bands tried to penetrate global markets, singing in English and simply does not work. "I made no effort to get there," he said. "The next time you do it on purpose. Kept'm If well. I feel the pressure."

He receives a certificate from the
Guinness World Records for the most beloved video on YouTube. Psy says is the first certificate that has already received, and we believe that this is not entirely a joke.

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Brazil's Amazon rangers battle farmers' burning business logic

Evandro Carlos Selva is a 1400 police high-tech environment with the eyes in space and feet on the ground for deadly border patrol

As the helicopter descends through the smoke in the Amazonian Jungle Hell Evandro Carlos checked the coordinates using a global positioning radio satellite back to the base of depositions of witnesses to deforestation.

flames lick the waves down through the canopy of smoke on the horizon, while below, the carbon that was stored in the forest for hundreds of years, is released into the atmosphere.

skeletal charred trees are gray, others burned black. Nearby, what was once forest area is reduced to ashes, dust and ashes. Walking through the rubble, Carlos Selva points on a farm near soy: ".. They paid to do this Forty percent of the harvest next year in this country has been bought"

Game

is illegal and Carlos Selva - a guard with agency environmental protection in Brazil, IBAMA - starts the process of imposing fines, trade embargoes and other sanctions which have helped to reduce the deforestation rate of nearly 80% over the past eight years. This is impressive progress, but are at risk. Pressure to convert rainforest grows stronger because of drought in the United States, rising global food prices and the weakening of the Brazilian laws.

Carlos Selva works in Mato Grosso, the first line of efforts to find a balance between protecting the environment and to feed a growing world population. Next year, Brazil will surpass the United States as the world's largest producer of soybeans. Most plants grown in Mato Grosso - where the Amazon rainforest is the Cerrado savannah - and both are eaten by fields

global priorities are recorded here on earth with geometric precision. Far from the image that most people of a vast unbroken rainforest has been cut and cut polygons divide soybean fields of the world's most productive wells largest carbon on the planet earth.

The boundaries between the two must be whether humanity puts more value into our lungs or our bellies. In fact, it became a contest between economics and law.

Carlos Selva is responsible for patrolling and maintaining this limit agitated. It could well be the last work of the 21st century. Analyst, accountant, regulatory and economic climate in a dangerous wound copper and the important role that is constantly transforming satellite data, global warming, world hunger and international prices of commodities

It receives warnings deforestation death threats and space of its neighbors - all supported by the available technology in the 21st century, with the same risks as the sheriff of the Wild West is face 200 years ago. It is equipped with a GPS system, a camera, a tablet and a pistol.

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monitoring and reassignment is not an easy task. In the state of Mato Grosso alone, there are 110,000 properties. Most are extremely remote. Many owners have invested their lives here and do not take kindly to being told that you can not use the land as they wish.

Carlos Selva has received death threats in June, while the world debate on the advantages and disadvantages of sustainability Earth Summit Rio +20. Has been taken hostage by the landowners. They slashed the tires on all four wheels. Corrupt local politicians are not on your side. After your operation more successful - a sting that exposed the widespread falsification of documentation forest - he and the chief of police has worked with districts were transferred from the road. Could be worse. Other browsers have had their chance homes. Many environmentalists have died trying to protect the Amazon.

is difficult to overstate the issue. Both sides of the debate set in clear terms. Save the forests and the fight against climate change. Clearing the forest and reduce hunger. Agribusiness see the Amazon as one of the last major areas of expansion.

Rangers are caught in the middle, but it's not just one or the other option. There are alarming signs that the Amazon is trapped in a vicious circle and the largest controller clears this climate, world weather, it becomes less predictable. This increases the risk of droughts and floods, destroying crops throughout the world. This, in turn, increases the pressure to clear the forest.

Twenty million people have taken up residence in the Brazilian Amazon, which covers two million square kilometers. Already, 17% was stripped by ranchers, loggers and soy farmers. In the recent summit of liberation in 2004, the square was cleared 10.723 miles per year, equivalent to the size of Albania, Haiti and Belgium.

Since then, deforestation has been significantly reduced thanks to a system that combines the eyes in the sky, boots on the ground and a growing collection of carrots and sticks to persuade farmers that are better leave the forest intact.

is mainly based on two sets of satellite data: PRODES, which is an annual audit of forests at 6.25 hectares (currently using a Satellite in the UK), and discouraging that provides almost real-time information to the rangers in the field, such as Carlos Selva, which can quickly reach the affected areas in helicopters and trucks. Individual offenders can be fined, imprisoned, machines confiscated and denied access to bank loans.

Institute of the Environment said it took 650 trucks, tractors, chainsaws 60,200 in 2011. Municipalities where more than 30 square miles were illegally dispossessed are put on a blacklist, which means companies zone accidents and cheap finance companies that negotiate with them also face restrictions.

Francisco de Oliveira Filho, director of policies against deforestation Ministry of Environment, said the program helped Brazil over halfway through its commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Copenhagen greenhouse by 36% by 2020.

"In 2004, we said that it was impossible to stop deforestation in the Amazon, but we have shown that you can reduce it," he said.

The hard work is yet to come, however, because of the deforestation polygons are becoming smaller and more dispersed. Farmers have learned the limits of satellite observation and the financial incentive to break the law increases with the increase in soybean prices. "We look at the system now. Aware that we are reaching the limits of surveillance and control," de Oliveira Filho. "Until now, we have made good progress, focusing on large landowners and large groups deforestation. But we have reached the point where, if we want to achieve our goals, we want to have holdings of less than 25 hectares. therefore in need of high-resolution satellite. "

The Ministry of the Environment focuses on an arc of deforestation in the north-east to south-west. This is the first line, where farmers are eating in the woods. By far the most affected states are Pará, Mato Grosso and Rondonia. With abundant water resources and fertile flat land at the border of the Amazon and the Cerrado, Mato Grosso is considered one of the best farmland in Brazil, which has made the forests more difficult to protect.

soybeans rose 10% last year. Locals say that this is mainly due to the conversion of grassland to cropland. But it is also clear that the pressure on the forest. In September, the Mato Grosso was the only state where clearing has continued to accelerate - an increase of 158% compared to the same period last year

One of the worst areas is Feliz Natal (Merry Christmas). Many farmers here have already been sanctioned, but there seems to be no sign that the pressure on the forest provides.

plumes of smoke every few hundred meters across a vast expanse of forest. The fog spreads across the sky, but it is far from the worst burn-off. Satellite images show the smoke from fires 100 miles the previous extension.

The deforestation process is simple. Different stages - conducted over a period of two to 10 years - all can be seen on a helicopter ride over an hour of Mato Grosso

• The first cutting. Small secret paths are drilled through the undergrowth by illegal loggers and sank secretly sold the most valuable logs to sawmills.
• Then comes the fires are lit every few hundred meters beneath the canopy, filling the sky with a cloud forest and reduce high low ash gray.
The following is the compensation. Bulldozers pushing piles of ash and mechanized claws tearing the rest of the soil by the roots so that it can be planted with a monoculture - most often soybean, cotton and corn. Moreover, deforestation is cattle grazing.

Part approved by the government, farmers are supposed to protect 80% of the Amazon rainforest in their country and 50% in the Cerrado. To do this, the Rangers are the prints of satellite images showing the red areas where deforestation has occurred.

landed in an area where trees have been dragged down. Instead of burning the forest, farmers use two powerful tractors in conjunction with a large chain, including pushing the top of the tallest trees in the road. Carlos Selva estimated 500 hectares have been cleared without permission and began a process of punishment and restoration.

There are limits on the vision of the authorities and enforcement powers. It takes about two days for the satellite data to be processed and sent to agents on the ground. After an update next year, it will be accelerated and the Rangers also receive data on forest degradation, which should increase your chances of catching violations at an early stage.

The operation will be facilitated by two new satellites - a Japanese, a Chinese-Brazilian. The two Japanese Alos provide satellite radar surveillance, allowing space agencies and observe the forest, even during the season covered from November to March. CBERS-Brazil China 3 provide better resolution and more frequent data.
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