This article examines the making and makers of “memorial diamonds.” These are “natural” diamonds identical to gemstones found in nature but produced laboratories with carbon sourced from genetic material (cremation ashes) or other objects symbolic emotional value. Threading corporality objectified life forms, we examine transformation ashes “afterlife” these “living” that at once synthetic orga...

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The spectral energy distribution of quasars shows a sharp steepening of the continuum shortward of ≃ 1100 Å. The steepening could be a result of dust absorption. We present a dust extinction model which considers crystalline carbon grains and compare it with SMC-like dust extinction consisting of a mixture of silicate grains with graphite or amorphous carbon grains. We show that the sharp break...

We report on the behavior of CVD diamonds under intense electromagnetic radiation and on the response of the detector to high density of deposited energy. Diamonds have been found to remain unaffected after doses of 10 MGy of MeV-range photons and the diamond response to energy depositions of up to 250 GeV / cm 3 has been found to be linear to better than 2 %. These observations make diamond an...

The radiation hardness of diamonds makes them a strong candidate to replace the inner most part of the CMS tracking detector. Polycrystalline diamond has been shown to regain some its CCD under sub-bandgap irradiations due to the depolarization of the diamond sensor. Monocrystalline diamonds that have suffered proton radiation damage exhibit a similar CCD reduction due to polarization. This stu...

The Ebbinghaus (Titchener) illusion was examined in a remote culture (Himba) with no words for geometric shapes. The illusion was experienced less strongly by Himba compared with English participants, leading to more accurate size contrast judgments in the Himba. The study included two conditions of inducing stimuli. The illusion was weaker when the inducing stimuli were dissimilar (diamonds) t...