OH NO, NOT A LOSER, BABY Oct 10, 2008
He was also selective and restrained covering the new material from this year's "Modern Guilt." Of those fresh melodies, "Gamma Ray," played during the encore, was tops. It was a no-nonsense concert in which songs were laid down in rapid fire with hardly a break or cheers or applause. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Sound off: Danger Mouse takes Beck to next level Sep 11, 2008
Classic Beck comes out on Gamma Ray, and the two tracks featuring Cat Power s Chan Marshall ( Orphans and Walls ) give Modern Guilt add the right amount energy to prove that Beck s still got it. Rating: 8. (Kingston Mariner, MA)
Wi-Fi users vulnerable to 'piggybacking' Aug 30, 2008
Photo: Gamma Ray Studio Inc/Getty Images. Internet users with Wi-Fi could be paying for other people's web surfing and exposing themselves to fraud, a report claimed today. (guardian.co.uk)
Beck's latest effort is a guiltless pleasure Aug 24, 2008
Consider the old-school rave-up of "Gamma Ray", the Spoon-esque groove of the title track and the soul-crushing closer "Volcano" each is a masterful execution of Beck's latest genre experiment (and a ton of fun to boot). The album isn't quite perfect -- the middle section drags a bit, and the bass frequency is uncomfortably high in the mix but all in all, it's a great return to form from California's musical chameleon. (The Cavalier Daily, VA)
The songs of the summer Aug 16, 2008
Amid all the histrionic vocals and busy beats blasting from the radio speakers, it's a relief to hear something as minimal and chill as Beck's "Gamma Ray." Tense but boppy, "Gamma Ray" is propelled by a hypnotic, killer riff ... All of which might just make "Gamma Ray" the perfect song for this bummer recession summer. (Salon)
Free Time on GRAS Telescope GRAS-013 - Take Personal Control of a Ground-Based, Hubble Space-Like Telescope System Aug 11, 2008
GRAS subscribers have been deeply engaged in deep-space imaging, narrow-band deep-space imaging, research in areas like, asteroids, double-stars, variable stars, exoplanets, nova search, cannibalistic galaxies, gamma ray busters and comets. Many subscribers have published their own papers on their respective research. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
A history of the quest to find water on Mars Jul 19, 2008
2001: The Mars Odyssey orbiter begins its search for Martian water, and the Gamma Ray Spectrometer aboard has detected large amounts of hydrogen, a key sign that water ice exists within 3 feet of the surface. 2004: Two Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, land on the planet and have been tracking down possible water-formed rocks ever since - including chunks of hematite and little dark objects known as "blueberries" that could be formed only in water. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
New Beck CD: Modern Guilt Review Jul 13, 2008
Whether it's the surf-rock satire Gamma Ray , the almost drill-n-bass Replica , or Modern Guilt , where his precision rivals indie rockers Spoon; Beck pumps enough foreboding in to let a listener know that this album isn't all fun and games. It's a big shift from his Gameboy-punching lightheartedness on 2005's Guero and 2006's The Information. (Suite101.com)
Beck, a master of change, is at it again with 'Modern Guilt' Jul 8, 2008
His anxiety is all-purpose: environmental ("Gamma Ray" and "Chemtrails"), existential ("Soul of a Man," "Volcano"), and social ("Orphans," "Youthless"). Sonic touchstones are equally pointed and vast, from heavy metal and the Beatles to shoegaze and Kraftwerk. (Boston Globe)
New CDs: Beck, Kerli and Greg Laswell Jul 8, 2008
At its most upbeat, on the Kinks-esque title track and the twangy "Gamma Ray" -- a sexy little number about electromagnetic radiation -- Beck welcomes his own obsolescence backed by tarnished vintage beats. More often, the mood is calm but chemically altered: psychedelia for a pharmaceutical age. (Los Angeles Times)
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As usual, sounds trump lyrics, though Becks surreal wordplay suits the environmental nightmare of Gamma Ray and paranoia of Chemtrails. Not just a guilty pleasure, Modern is retro-contemporary fusion for the ages. (USA Today -- Life)
CD reviews: Beck produces another masterpiece, Albert Hammond Jr. light on the ears Jul 8, 2008
Modern Guilt shifts from a dark tune called "Orphans" to the surf-rock inspired "Gamma Ray" that places the listener right in the middle of the 1960s film The Endless Summer ... Alexis' Picks: "Gamma Ray" and "Modern Guilt.". (Daily Iowan, IA)
Hellboya Cant Miss sequel Jul 7, 2008
Some of the better tracks on the Danger Mouse-produced disk include Soul of a Man, Volcano and Gamma Ray. He might even get a new record deal with this. (MSNBC -- News)
Astronomy projects hit by 80m cuts Jul 5, 2008
British involvement wit 00004000 h BaBar, an American-based study into the differences between matter and antimatter, and Integral, a satellite with the most sensitive gamma ray observatory in space, will come to an end. Several other projects have had their planned funding reduced including ExoMars, a European Space Agency scheme to land a probe to search for signs of life on Mars, and Minos, which investigates some of the world s tiniest particles. (Times Online)
Property was safe, officials told owners Jun 30, 2008
NSW Health is relying on tests conducted in February, which involved a one-day screening of gamma ray radiation but no measuring of the soil or the effect of ingesting dust particles. A departmental spokeswoman said the buyers were warned in May 1989 that the land contained radioactive deposits, but that the land was cleaned up after it was sold. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Dakota Oil Fields of Saudi-Sized Reserves Turn Wheat Farmers Into Drillers Jun 4, 2008
Montana and North Dakota require companies to make public the information they collect when drilling, including gamma ray logs, which register the location of oil-bearing shale. Johnson examined logs from hundreds of wells east of Elm Coulee. (Bloomberg)
LANDING PREVIEW STORY May 26, 2008
The estimates are derived from the hydrogen abundance measured by the neutron spectrometer component of the gamma ray spectrometer suite on NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Los Alamos National Laboratory. (Astronomy Now Online)
Today in History - May 6 May 6, 2008
Astronomers announced the detection of a gamma ray burst in a galaxy 12 billion light years away that was equal to the energy expended by the sun in 1 trillion years. Five years ago: Sen. (Waterloo Courier, IO)
Click for Full Story May 6, 2008
Astronomers announced the detection of a gamma ray burst in a galaxy 12 billion light years away that was equal to the energy expended by the sun in one trillion years. Five years ago: Florida Senator Bob Graham launched his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination by accusing President Bush of retreating from the war on terrorism to "settle old scores" between the Bush family and Iraq's Saddam Hussein. (KWTX.com, TX)
...'the size of a bus' Jan 28, 2008
27-metric ton) Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, using rockets aboard the satellite to bring it down in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean. In 2002, officials believe debris from a 7,000-pound (3175. (The Drudge Report)
Disabled spy satellite falling from orbit Jan 27, 2008
In 2000, NASA engineers successfully directed a safe de-orbit of the 17-ton Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, using rockets aboard the satellite to bring it down in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean. In 2002, officials believe debris from a 7,000-pound science satellite smacked into the Earth's atmosphere and rained down over the Persian Gulf, a few thousand miles from where they first predicted it would plummet. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Helloween and Gamma Ray Review Jan 25, 2008
Power metal pioneers Helloween brought their Hellish Rock Tour to the Shepherds Bush Empire in London with support from fellow German power metallers, Gamma Ray. Power metal pioneers Helloween brought their Hellish Rock Tour to the Shepherds Bush Empire in London with support from fellow German power metallers, Gamma Ray ... With Gamma Ray lead singer/guitarist Kai Hansen being a founding member of headliners Helloween, it was no surprise the venue was already packed by the time Gamma Ray took... (Suite101.com)
Classic drama examines mother-daughter relationship Jan 18, 2008
Emily Dorsett at right, Doreen Massey, seated and Diana Wooley, standing rehearse a scene from "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds," the next play at Lamb Productions ... One of off-Broadway's greatest successes, "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds" by Paul Zindel was the winner of the 1971 Pulitzer Prize, the Obie Award and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award as Best American Play of the Season ... Encouraged by a teacher, "Tillie" undertakes a gamma... (Sioux City Journal, IO)
University redefines harassment policy Nov 6, 2007
He developed influential theories about the galaxy's dark matter, the energy of gamma ray bursts, gravitational lensing of stars and the existence of rocky planets like the Earth elsewhere in space. Powers began his Princeton career as a graduate student in the early 1950s and received two Fulbright scholarships and a Rockefeller Grant. (The Daily Princetonian, NJ)
John Ottman - Fantastic Four Rise of the Silver Surfer Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Jun 17, 2007
To date he's scored music for mutants (X2), a lone Kryptonian (Superman Returns), and four gamma ray infected misfits (Fantastic Four). With Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer Ottman is once again onboard supplying the music that accompanies the cinematic adventures of Sue and Johnny Storm, Reed Richards, and Ben Grimm. (IGN FilmForce)
Sharp Views Show Ground Ice on Mars Is Patchy and Variable May 3, 2007
The new results were made using infrared images of sites on far-northern and far-southern Mars, where buried water ice within an arm's length of the surface was found five years ago by the Gamma Ray Spectrometer suite of instruments on Mars Odyssey. The smallest patches detectable by those instruments are several hundred times larger than details detectable by the new method of mapping depth-to-ice, which sees differences over scales of a few hundred yards or meters. (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Martian water: New mapping tool heats up quest for icy gold May 3, 2007
He explains that water ice lying at shallow depths was first detected and mapped by the Gamma Ray Spectrometer (GRS) suite of instruments, also on Mars Odyssey. But, as Bandfield notes, "the smallest patches detectable by GRS are 300 miles, or 500 kilometers, wide." The new work shows that THEMIS' heat-sensing capability gives scientists a much sharper tool to hunt for buried ice. (PhysOrg.com)
Integral Sees The Galactic Centre Playing Hide And Seek Jan 19, 2007
The European Space Agency's gamma ray observatory Integral has caught the centre of our galaxy in a moment of rare quiet ... Since the beginning of the Integral mission, ESA's gamma ray observatory has allowed astronomers to keep watch on this ever-changing environment ... As this gas spirals down around the collapsed star, it is heated to over a million degrees centigrade and this causes it to emit high energy X-rays and gamma rays. (Science Daily)
