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WARSAW on the up Several Levels, I Never Found It 38 Update EYE ON TRAVEL the “Enigma Machine,” whose code was cracked by Polish cryptologists, but although I searched diligently on the museum's WARSAW ON THE UP several levels, I never found it. I did wander through a model of a coal mine, a room Science and an artists’ quarter provide diverse full of mechanical music makers, and an entertainment for visitors exhibition of antique washing machines. For information, visit: www.muzeum-techniki. by Maryalicia Post waw.pl. Entrance to the museum is on the Section of Ghetto Wall, traced in bronze left hand side of the Palace of Culture. Open 09:00 to 17:00, Tuesday through Friday and from 10:00 to 17:00 on Saturday and Sunday. ne Warsaw building you can't Closed Monday. Admission is 12 PLN. Invitation to play Europe’s overlook even if you want to – Warsaw loves shopping malls; there newest Science Museum, the and most Polish people seem are more than 20 in the city. Though it’s Copernicus Science Centre, is to want to – is the 42-storey not the biggest – that’s the Arkadia with deservedly popular, attracting about Palace of Culture and Science in the O 230 shops – the most interesting is Zlote 2,500 visitors a day. It’s a massive centre of the city. Presented as a “Gift to Terasy, or “Golden Terraces,” which rises three-storey building that swallows up the People of Poland” from the “People of just behind the Palace of Culture. Designed the opening-hour queue efficiently, Soviet Russia,” it was perceived as a stamp of by an architectural partnership based in but long lines develop within the Stalinist authority and a reminder that Big the American state of California, the mall hour, especially at the weekend. Brother was watching. opened in 2007. In addition to a couple of There are over 450 interactive Variously known as Stalin's Tooth, the high-rise office and residential buildings, experiments to enjoy, not to mention Russian Wedding Cake, and several other it incorporates a leisure complex, cinema, a theatre where the actors are robots. less quotable tags, the building was erected restaurants and more than 200 shops under You activate the activities with the between 1952 and 1955 by a contingent of an undulating glass roof. The wavy roof pays electronic card that comes with your 3,500 Soviet workers who were housed at homage to the trees in Warsaw's parks, the ticket. You could easily spend a day Poland’s expense in a new suburban complex. only elements of the city that escaped the here, breaking off for lunch or a quick Originally dedicated to Stalin, the dictator's devastation of World War II. snack at the inviting, inexpensive name has been revoked from the title of Złota 44, the city's first unabashedly luxury restaurant on the ground floor. The the building, removed from the lobby and residential tower is rising near the Zolte gift shop is full of scientific toys and chiselled off a book held by one of the Terasy. It's a skyscraper designed by Polish- unusual souvenirs. The museum sculpted figures. The building has 3,240 born American Daniel Libeskind, the master is open Tuesday through Friday rooms and holds, among other things, Palace of Culture and Science, Stalin’s gift to the Polish people architect who rebuilt the World Trade Center from 9:00 to 18:00 and on Saturday a university on two floors, the largest site after 9-11. At 54 stories high, Złota 44 and Sunday from 10:00 to 19:00. swimming pool in Warsaw, cinemas, the but windswept terrace. In clear weather you bends in a graceful glass and steel ark to 192 Last admission at cash-desk is one Museum of Technology, a 500-seat concert will see all over Warsaw. The new National metres. The building itself is four metres hour prior to closing. The museum hall and a 2,800-seat congress hall. Stadium, built on the far shore of the Vistula higher than the “Palace” building, but 45 is closed on Mondays. General The building’s most interesting feature River for Euro 2012, stands out like a crown metres shorter than the tip of the spire that admission is 22 PLN. For more for the tourist, however, is the observation on the flat landscape. The viewing terrace is sits atop the Palace. Projects by other famous details, visit: www.kopernik.org.pl/en/. deck on the 30th floor. To access it, enter open daily from 9.00 to 18.00. Admission is architects such as Chicago's Helmut Jahn and the building from Plac Defilad, turn right 20 PLN. Iraqi-born Zaha Hadid are in various stages Praga, over the river Praga, on the mezzanine at the top of the flight The Museum of Technology is almost of development in the city. With no pre-war across the river from the Old Town, of marble stairs and buy a ticket from the domestic with its lace curtains and unsmiling buildings to preserve, Warsaw is making the did not share the devastation visited small shop. A lift takes you up to the roofed lady attendants. I wanted to see its copy of best of a clean sheet, architecturally speaking. on the West bank in 1944 nor has it been much refurbished since. So, the bullet-pocked tenements, crumbling 365 nm) as the excitation source. They warehouses, gritty streets on the East Journal Watch measured temporal and nasal conjunctival side of the Vistula River remain much UVAF in both eyes using computerised as they were. photographic analysis. The analysis Artists and craftsmen looking Myopia and daylight exposure revealed that the for cheap studios are moving in to The incidence of myopia appears to be prevalence of myopia decreased disused factories and Praga is on its increasing significantly among children significantly with an increasing quartile (slow) way to becoming Warsaw’s in some regions, particularly in parts of total UVAF. Median total UVAF artists’ quarter. A disused redbrick of Asia. A link between lack of outdoor was significantly lower in patients Vodka factory is home to a theatre, activity and increased risk of myopia has with myopia. Even after employing a “Teatr Wytwórnia,” and a cultural been suggested in previous studies. A multivariable model that adjusted for age, association, as well as an art gallery or recent study took a different approach to sex, smoking, cataract, height and weight, two. ul. Ząbkowska 27/31. this issue, seeking to determine whether UVAF was independently associated with If you don’t have the time to get conjunctival ultraviolet autofluorescence myopia. The analysis also revealed that utterly lost, see Praga with a guide. (UVAF), a biomarker of outdoor light UVAF was significantly associated with Mine was the knowledgeable Hubert exposure, is associated with myopia. autorefraction. The researchers measured myopia when analysis was restricted to Pawlik, who showed me everything The cross-sectional study recruited 636 conjunctival UVAF with a novel system, subjects younger than 50 years of age, and from a mechanised musical band to volunteers aged 15 years and above. All a specially adapted electronic flash system in moderate-severe myopia. the inside of a Russian Cathedral. completed a sun-exposure questionnaire fitted with UV-transmission filters n JC Sherwin et al., Invest Ophthal Vis Visit, www.warsaw-guide.waw.pl. and underwent non-cycloplegic (transmittance range 300–400 nm, peak Sci, 20212;53(8):4363-4370. EUROTIMES | Volume 17 | Issue 11.
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