Before it conked out due to electrical problems in 2007, Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys took one of the first ever images of a planet around another star, a dot orbiting Fomalhaut, and it had become the foremost instrument on or near the Earth for investigating dark energy, the strange effect that is accelerating the expansion of the universe.
But danger always lurks when a museum is regarded first and foremost as an instrument of social engineering.
This instrument is foremost a market based pressurising medium for companies continuing their production on the basis of slavery work.
Nuclear instruments are the foremost existential threat to life on earth.
(Chinen) BEN MONDER TRIO (Saturday) In the capable hands of Ben Monder the electric guitar is a coloristic instrument first and foremost.
(Chinen) BEN MONDER GROUP (Thursday) In the hands of Mr. Monder, the electric guitar is a coloristic instrument first and foremost; his fine recent album, "Oceana" (Sunnyside), showcases his dizzyingly proficient solo workouts and his coolly convoluted pieces for trio.
(Chinen) BEN MONDER (Thursday) In the hands of Mr. Monder, the electric guitar is a coloristic instrument first and foremost; here he rides an undulant rhythmic foundation shaped by Chris Lightcap, bassist, and Jeff Hirschfield, drummer.
Monday at 8 p.m., Tea Lounge, 837 Union Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (718) 789-2762, tealoungeny.com; suggested donation, $5. (Chinen) BEN MONDER TRIO (Friday and Saturday) In the hands of Ben Monder the electric guitar is a coloristic instrument first and foremost.
(Chinen) BEN MONDER TRIO (Thursday) In the hands of Mr. Monder, the electric guitar is a coloristic instrument first and foremost; it becomes even more so alongside the shape-shifting vocals of Theo Bleckmann and the textural percussion of Satoshi Takeishi.
(Chinen) BEN MONDER GROUP (Sunday) In the hands of Mr. Monder, the electric guitar is a coloristic instrument first and foremost; here he celebrates the release of a lush new album, "Oceana" (Sunnyside), with the bassist Ben Street and the drummer Ted Poor.
