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Director Peter Greenaway: the Dead Cinema Can Be Resurrected with New Technology

15.08.2014

On his lecture at the Aboagora symposium in Turku, Greenaway declared that cinema is dead, as films concentrate more on the text than the image. To revive the art form, he demanded that cinema has to give up excessive textuality as well as the conventional screen and embrace new technology.

​Director Peter Greenaway gave a lecture on the death of cinema on Thursday at the Sibelius Museum.

Welcome to the First Falling Walls Lab Researcher Competition in Finland on 11 August

08.08.2014

The Falling Walls Lab Turku competition, where young researchers have three minutes to present their work onstage, is open to the public. Three most intriguing presenters will win a place in the international Falling Walls Lab final which will take place in Berlin in November. The Lab is organised in Finland and the Nordic countries for the first time as a part of the three-day Aboagora symposium.

Professor Urged the ICT Developers to Be Responsible for the Consequences of Their Inventions

31.07.2014

Professor Don Gotternbarn urged those developers who work in ICT to think about how each new invention changes the world. Gotternbarn, who spoke at the international Human Choice and Computers conference at the University of Turku, reminded that the need and skill to create new innovations are not enough. – Ethics must also extend to the consequences, said the professor.

Watching Substantial Amounts of TV Increases the Risk of Obesity

22.07.2014

The national Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study shows that substantial TV watching predisposes for obesity and not the other way around. Among those who watch a substantial amount of TV, weight gain can even double compared with those who watch less TV.

Atlantic Salmon Acclimatise Well to Warmer Water Temperature

26.06.2014

The offspring of salmon populations which have grown up in cold waters seem to be able to acclimatise to warm waters as well. An international research group discovered that salmon populations from northern Norway can live also in 20 °C water. The results were published in the esteemed Nature Communications scientific journal.

​Researcher of Animal Physiology Katja Anttila.