The 2006 Science Season, featuring exhibitions on the nation's diversity in culture and technology, will be officially launched next month, the National Science Council said yesterday.
The exhibitions will take place at the Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall over the next two months. Event organizers hope to draw the attention of school-age children and teenagers, who will then be on summer vacation.
At the press conference yesterday, organizers showed off a three-dimensional animation that they said represents the diversity of Taiwanese culture.
Titled Diamond Taiwan: A Land of Beauty and Diversity, the animation consists of snapshots of various aspects of life, including religious rituals, Aboriginal culture and scenes from night markets.
The filming process was rather challenging, according to producer Yoyo Wang (
Members of the Paiwan believe that burying the deceased beneath their houses helps to protect them from harm.
Lin Shu-min (
The animation will be displayed during the course of the exhibitions at a mini theater that has been erected inside the CKS Memorial Hall. Nine parallel projectors will be used to patch the high-resolution images seamlessly together and provide a panoramic viewing experience.
Lin said the animation was also interactive.
During the segment on Taiwan's butterflies, for example, a viewer walking toward the screen will prompt a horde of butterflies to emerge from the bushes.
Tchen Yu-chiou (
Just as natural elements were crystallized into a diamond after being under pressure for a long time, so elements of daily life and geological conditions had contributed to the creation of Taiwanese culture, she said.
Tchen added that the interactivity of the film helped to give it an edge over those seen in other countries.
"We can add aromas such as brewing tea or stinky tofu to the animation if we want to," she said.
The film was produced over the course of a year with a budget of NT$18 million (US$562,500) and was funded by the National Science Council.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
UNAWARE: Many people sit for long hours every day and eat unhealthy foods, putting them at greater risk of developing one of the ‘three highs,’ an expert said More than 30 percent of adults aged 40 or older who underwent a government-funded health exam were unaware they had at least one of the “three highs” — high blood pressure, high blood lipids or high blood sugar, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) said yesterday. Among adults aged 40 or older who said they did not have any of the “three highs” before taking the health exam, more than 30 percent were found to have at least one of them, Adult Preventive Health Examination Service data from 2022 showed. People with long-term medical conditions such as hypertension or diabetes usually do not
POLICE INVESTIGATING: A man said he quit his job as a nurse at Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital as he had been ‘disgusted’ by the behavior of his colleagues A man yesterday morning wrote online that he had witnessed nurses taking photographs and touching anesthetized patients inappropriately in Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital’s operating theaters. The man surnamed Huang (黃) wrote on the Professional Technology Temple bulletin board that during his six-month stint as a nurse at the hospital, he had seen nurses taking pictures of patients, including of their private parts, after they were anesthetized. Some nurses had also touched patients inappropriately and children were among those photographed, he said. Huang said this “disgusted” him “so much” that “he felt the need to reveal these unethical acts in the operating theater
Heat advisories were in effect for nine administrative regions yesterday afternoon as warm southwesterly winds pushed temperatures above 38°C in parts of southern Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. As of 3:30pm yesterday, Tainan’s Yujing District (玉井) had recorded the day’s highest temperature of 39.7°C, though the measurement will not be included in Taiwan’s official heat records since Yujing is an automatic rather than manually operated weather station, the CWA said. Highs recorded in other areas were 38.7°C in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門), 38.2°C in Chiayi City and 38.1°C in Pingtung’s Sandimen Township (三地門), CWA data showed. The spell of scorching