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Tottori touts lunar landscape, hoping to become space tech hub

 
The Yomiuri ShimbunA lunar knowledge celebration is held at the Tottori Sand Dunes very last October. The Yomiuri Shimbun 13:51 JST, January 9, 2023 A analysis foundation for lunar exploration is having form at the Tottori Sand Dunes, a well-liked vacationer spot in Tottori Prefecture with an surroundings stated to be identical to the floor of the moon. Lunar knowledge excursions utilizing augmented fact technology ended up released at the dunes previous November, and the prefectural authorities is keen to appeal to other space-linked organizations and exploration institutes in the long run. In the course of a evening tour in Oct previous yr, people putting on goggles seemed up at…
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Building a Hub for New Art in Athens ‘Under the Shadow of the Acropolis’
ATHENS — “Sea, sunshine and intercourse, with some Greek columns in the history,” mentioned Poka Yio, the artistic director of the Athens Biennale. He was summing up the Greek government’s tourism campaigns in the 2000s as he led a visitor about a rambling former department shop that was a single of the internet sites of the 2021 version. Portion of the inspiration for setting up the biennale in 2007, he mentioned, was to alter that stereotype: “We preferred to place Athens on the modern artwork cultural map.” Fifteen many years later on, Athens is surely on the worldwide artwork group radar, nevertheless more as a curiosity than a significant hub.…