Peppermint candycanes in Sweden are called "polkagris" or "polka pigs". The polka was a popular dance (and the source for the name "polka dots"), and I'm told that "pigs" was the name for candy, though on that I'm skeptical. In any case, it's neat to see actual peppermint pigs!
The project home page is at https://sites.google.com/site/birdbuggy109/ . It's definitely not a soda can top. The final report says it's a "loop like piece of polycarbonate."
The artist has no sense of history. The 1950s were also the "information age" in this respect, but more importantly, that era is called the "Atomic Age" for a reason.
Quoting one web site, after the tests started at the Nevada Test Site: "Almost overnight, Las Vegas ushered in the age of atomic tourism. Fueled by a series of press releases from the Chamber of Commerce, visitors from around the country descended on the city in droves to witness the mushroom clouds first hand. On April 22, 1952, 200 members of the media were invited to broadcast from Yucca Lake, just ten miles from the epicenter of a major blast. As the bomb exploded on televisions from coast to coast, the country was caught up in atomic fever."
Quoting another site: In the summer of 1957, an article in the New York Times explained how to plan one's summer vacation around the "non-ancient but none the less honorable pastime of atom-bomb watching." Reporter Gladwin Hill wrote that "for the first time, the Atomic Energy Commission's Nevada test program will extend through the summer tourist season, into November. It will be the most extensive test series ever held, with upward of fifteen detonations. And for the first time, the A.E.C. has released a partial schedule, so that tourists interested in seeing a nuclear explosion can adjust itineraries accordingly."
Sure, it was shared on slides and postcards instead of Twitter, and broadcast on network TV instead of sent through Facebook, but it's hard to imagine how there would be "new levels of desensitization." People expected nuclear powered cars and airplanes and rockets, and new ports created by detonating nuclear bombs. Quoting Wikipedia: "Nuclear power was seen to be the epitome of progress and modernity."
The fake pictures, as whitcwa succinctly says, pale in comparison to what actually happened.
There are a large number of hatch-back tents. My grandparents used to travel with one which was bigger than this, though also more complex. It added a small vestibule where one could stand up and change clothes while still being 'inside'.
Does the paper go into the corresponding trends in other industrialized countries? If automation were the key to union membership decline then surely it would be seen elsewhere. A quick search found http://www.samf.aau.dk/~jlind/tekster/IJES%20article%20on%20Ghent%20system.htm which says that union membership in Denmark, Sweden, and Finland peaked in the 1980s and 1990s at 80% of the labor force.
That link points out that in those countries unemployment insurance was done voluntarily, through the unions. This of course makes union membership more attractive. The paper goes on to say "This seems to indicate that unions in the three countries may be facing this additional threat on membership losses in addition to the tendencies known from other countries, such as industrial restructuring, welfare state interventions, individualisation and globalization."
Many old typewriters didn't have a 0 or 1 key; people used 'o' or 'l' instead. If your teacher is old enough, then she probably had a few decades of typewriter use. Almost certainly doesn't explain why Jill Harness used it here.
From Earnshaw's Theorem, there's no way to use static magnets to cause levitation on their own. You either need active controls or you need some sort of physical support. Otherwise it will slide to the side (or perhaps top/bottom). You can use wires if they are nearly horizontal to prevent that action, or use posts under the bed. It's cooler to point under the bed and point out the lack of support.
You can get around Earnshaw's Theorem with superconductors, if you want to sleep over a large pool of liquid nitrogen. Perhaps someday, with room-temperature superconductors, we'll all be able to sleep on floating beds.
It's even more worse than I thought. Here's a picture of a camel pulling a carriage: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/wtc.4a02882/ and another at http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/maps/jpgt.php?pid=177458 . Notice how the load is placed on a back of the camel? This ambulance picture assumes that a camel is like a horse, where the collar is put forward, on the shoulders, to pull a load. Also, see how low the carriages are relative to the camel? This ambulance mockup picture has a horrible sense of perspective. Or it would put the patient at 5 feet above the ground. How is a patient supposed to climb into it, and if the patient is invalid, how many people does it take to life the person there?
That's cute, but given the person in Arabic attire and the high likelihood that it's mean for a Muslim country, there should be Red Crescent either in place of or in addition to the Red Cross.
"shot in neighboring Romania..." There are two other countries and 1,000 miles between Kazahkstan and Romania. That's about the distance between New York and Florida.
Quoting one web site, after the tests started at the Nevada Test Site: "Almost overnight, Las Vegas ushered in the age of atomic tourism. Fueled by a series of press releases from the Chamber of Commerce, visitors from around the country descended on the city in droves to witness the mushroom clouds first hand. On April 22, 1952, 200 members of the media were invited to broadcast from Yucca Lake, just ten miles from the epicenter of a major blast. As the bomb exploded on televisions from coast to coast, the country was caught up in atomic fever."
Quoting another site: In the summer of 1957, an article in the New York Times explained how to plan one's summer vacation around the "non-ancient but none the less honorable pastime of atom-bomb watching." Reporter Gladwin Hill wrote that "for the first time, the Atomic Energy Commission's Nevada test program will extend through the summer tourist season, into November. It will be the most extensive test series ever held, with upward of fifteen detonations. And for the first time, the A.E.C. has released a partial schedule, so that tourists interested in seeing a nuclear explosion can adjust itineraries accordingly."
Sure, it was shared on slides and postcards instead of Twitter, and broadcast on network TV instead of sent through Facebook, but it's hard to imagine how there would be "new levels of desensitization." People expected nuclear powered cars and airplanes and rockets, and new ports created by detonating nuclear bombs. Quoting Wikipedia: "Nuclear power was seen to be the epitome of progress and modernity."
The fake pictures, as whitcwa succinctly says, pale in comparison to what actually happened.
Custom kitchen deliveries /
We gotta move these refrigerators /
We gotta move these color TV's"
The "color" part of "color TV" will likely also throw your kids - what else is there besides colors?
There are a large number of hatch-back tents. My grandparents used to travel with one which was bigger than this, though also more complex. It added a small vestibule where one could stand up and change clothes while still being 'inside'.
That link points out that in those countries unemployment insurance was done voluntarily, through the unions. This of course makes union membership more attractive. The paper goes on to say "This seems to indicate that unions in the three countries may be facing this additional threat on membership losses in addition to the tendencies known from other countries, such as industrial restructuring, welfare state interventions, individualisation and globalization."
You can get around Earnshaw's Theorem with superconductors, if you want to sleep over a large pool of liquid nitrogen. Perhaps someday, with room-temperature superconductors, we'll all be able to sleep on floating beds.
Geoduck: Agreed!