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Nova (UK magazine)

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Nova
Cover of Nova
CategoriesWomen's magazine
FrequencyMonthly
First issueMarch 1965; 58 years ago (1965-03)
Final issueOctober 1975 (1975-10)
CompanyIPC
CountryUnited Kingdom
Based inLondon
LanguageEnglish
ISSN0029-4977

Nova was a British glossy magazine that was published from March 1965[1][2] to October 1975[1][3] It was described by The Times as "a politically radical, beautifully designed, intellectual women's magazine."[4] Nova covered such once-taboo subjects as abortion, cancer, the birth control pill, race, homosexuality, divorce and royal affairs. It featured stylish and provocative cover images.[1]

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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. Gregory W. Nemitz registered some land containing 492 quintillion dollars worth of platinum. The land was right here... well, over here - an asteroid named 433 Eros. Not a single sovereign nation on earth recognizes human claims to extraterrestrial real estate, but he did it anyway. And then, less than a year later, NASA landed a probe on the asteroid. They called it the first asteroid we had ever landed a probe on. Nemitz called it "parking space number 29" and promptly sent NASA a 20 dollar parking ticket. But so far, NASA and the US Attorney General have dismissed the fine, saying that his claim to own the asteroid is without legal merit. But why? Plenty of organizations exists that will gladly take your money in return for land on the Moon, Venus, Mars. And if you had enough money to go to the Moon, nothing is legally stopping you from moving there, building a house with a significant other, having some kids and turning your Moon house into a Moon home. It wouldn't be trespassing or squatting or stealing. The 1979 Moon Treaty says that no one can own any part of outer space ever, but only 11 states have signed it. However, 129 nations have signed and/or ratified the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which says that outer space is not subject to national appropriation. It says nothing about a private individual or a company owning part of outer space. But without the recognition and support of at least one sovereign nation, what does ownership really mean? I mean, I can claim anything I want. I can claim to own Prospect Park in Brooklyn, but just saying that I do or even moving there and living in Prospect Park wouldn't entitle me to the rights that usually go along with ownership, unless someone with a bunch of power agreed that I owned it and could enforce that ownership and keep others from claiming to also own it. In the past, explorers had few qualms about claiming to own land, even if other humans were already there, because they had power on their side - mainly plenty of guns, Germs and Steel. To paraphrase con artist Canada Bill Jones, "you know what beats four aces? A gun." Or as @lawblob pointed out, McDonald's actually does serve breakfast after 10:30, if you have a gun. If you claimed some land on the Moon as your own and moved in, would you also have to hire your own lunar police and Cislunar military to defend it and to keep others from challenging your claim? Pretty much. That's kind of the problem. Currently it is risky for individuals or corporations to claim and use extraterrestrial territory because the Outer Space Treaty says that outer space is the common heritage of mankind. It belongs to all of us and only to all of us. Many interpretations of the Outer Space Treaty predict that powerful things like nations would be reluctant to come to your defense should someone else want to move in or cause trouble or dispute your extraterrestrial claim. Maybe you could get the sovereign nation to weigh in on your behalf by declaring universal jurisdiction but that would need to be for an incredibly terrible heinous crime, a crime against all of humanity, not just a dispute over a few space rocks. Catherine Doldirina from the Institute of Air & Space Law at McGill University suggests that considering outer space, the common heritage of mankind, has slowed space exploration. You see, the Outer Space Treaty was based on the Antarctic Treaty, which says that the entire continent shall never become the scene or object of international discord. Discord is not a good thing, but without an incentive to profit from it, not much has happened there, as opposed to the Arctic, where a resource boom is currently underway. If people felt safer appropriating and taking advantage of space, of celestial bodies, if technological development was more incentivized, would we already have orbiting tourist attractions and lunar hotels? Maybe. But here is what you can currently own in outer space: stuff you put there and, to a certain extent, orbits. The Outer Space Treaty says that the stuff we left on the move, anything put into space, remains property of the original owner forever. Orbits around earth are temporarily granted by the International Telecommunication Union, a UN agency; but they don't work like typical real estate on Earth. When a group of Equatorial nations attempted to claim orbits above their land boundaries, without planning on putting satellites there, their claim was largely ignored. So you not only need to ask the UN for an orbit and get permission, you also need to use it and fill it. It's a little disappointing that we don't know how lunar real estate works or if it will, but it's exciting to know that we, within our lifetimes, might have a chance to be part of the solution. A unique generation not visiting space for the first time, but homesteading it for the first time. Here's another unresolved space law quandary. If an alien landed in your backyard, intelligent life from beyond Earth, and you shot it with a gun, dressed it and then cooked up, you and your family, some alien meat fajitas, would that be hunting or murder? We literally don't know. On earth, we have human rights, but there are no alien rights. Maybe it would fall under the category of cultural vandalism, an act that's not necessarily a legal, but is a giant bummer to the rest of humanity. This has happened before - not with aliens - but with paintings. In 2003, the Chapman brothers purchased one of the few remaining sets of Goya's Fantastic Disasters of War. Instead of displaying the works for the public, they defaced them by drawing clown and puppy heads on the people. They called the work "insult to injury." In protest, a man threw red paint on Jake Chapman when he appeared at Modern Art Oxford, but at the end of the day, what the Chapman brothers did wasn't illegal. They owned the paintings. Vandalizing the Moon or killing a peaceful alien aren't illegal acts, but just like defacing historical paintings, they seem wrong on some deeper level, especially since because in most museums you usually can't even touch the paintings. But who was the first person to touch the Moon with their bare hands? I mean, the guys who walked around on the Moon wore space suits, they had material in between their skin and the Moon. Well, to be sure, you already have the Moon in your hands. Well, little Moons. Lunula. The crescent-shaped area at the base of your fingernail, where tissue is thicker and the red vascular structures underneath are more hidden, making it white. And to be even more sure, at the quantum level touch is problematic. As I've covered before, atomically speaking, matter never really contacts other matter in the conventional sense. You can't truly touch anything. MinutePhysics called it interaction over a short distance. With that in mind, NASA says the Terry Slezak was the first person to touch the Moon with his bare hands. He was a technician in quarantine, who accidentally got lunar soil smeared all over his hand while removing film magazines from the astronauts' cameras. But when Armstrong and Aldrin returned to the lunar module after their moonwalk and removed their helmets, they came into contact with lunar dust they tracked in on their suits. They even reported its odor, saying it smelled of spent gunpowder or ashes, possibly because it oxidized on contact with the air in the cabin. Point is, the first few breaths of Moon dusty air that Armstrong and Aldrin took in were our first fleshly contact with the Moon. Or were they? Walking around on earth every day I am surrounded by material that recently was in outer space. Hundreds of metric tons of extraterrestrial rock falls to Earth every year. Some from the Moon, but most from asteroids, ejected by a high-speed impact and eventually caught by Earth's gravity. Some pieces are big enough to see, but most are pulverized by our atmosphere during entry into tiny particles that disperse in the air, becoming a tiny fraction of the very dust and dirt we clean up and breathe in every day. There's microscopic space dust, pieces of asteroids and even the Moon all around us. In fact, there might be microscopic pieces of the Moon under your bed right now or even under your fingernails. Which means the first human to have fleshly contact with lunar material was the first Homo Sapien hundreds of thousands of years ago to walk on dirt. We are still studying exactly how much cosmic dust is in the air that we breathe every day, but it's safe to say that every once in a while you inhale some material that was recently in outer space, some of which thousands of years ago was on the Moon. Was the Moon. And just like other particulates in our atmosphere, large enough pieces get trapped in the mucus that protects our lungs, meaning that picking your nose is gross, but every once in a while, a booger could literally be out of this world. And as always, thanks for watching.

History

Founded by the magazine publishing company George Newnes, part of the International Publishing Corporation (known informally as IPC), Nova was initially edited by Harry Fieldhouse and described itself as "A new kind of magazine for the new kind of woman". From its seventh edition Dennis Hackett took over as editor with Kevin d'Arcy as assistant editor, Harri Peccinotti as art editor, Alma Birk as editorial adviser,[5] with Penny Vincenzi and later Molly Parkin and Caroline Baker as fashion editors. David Gibbs's comprehensive anthology[1] of Nova pages and images says of Parkin, who trained as a painter: "A dynamic sense of colour and design was all she needed to guide her. Unfettered by the accepted wisdom of the fashion system, she introduced an unconventional and startling view of what women could wear... always teasing the edges of taste... She set the standard."

At Nova, Peccinotti became one of the first professional photographers to use black models extensively in his fashion shoots.[6] He stated in an interview: “Nova started as an experiment. The thinking behind it came from the fact that there were no magazines at the time for intelligent women... The women’s liberation movement was strong and there were a lot of good female writers. Nova’s aim was to talk about what women were really interested in: politics, careers, health, sex. George Newnes threw some money in, just to see if anyone was interested in a magazine like that, and so it started.” [7]

The distinctive Nova headline font, adapted by Pentagram from a vintage woodcut typeface, became a formative influence on typography for many years. As part of a revolution in graphic design led by the progenitors Town, Queen, Elle and The Sunday Times Magazine, Nova took specific inspiration from the universally admired German magazine Twen.[8] At Nova between 1966 and 1969 Derek Birdsall, John Blackburn and Bill Fallover continued expanding the role of a magazine art director who on some titles assumed a role as powerful as its editors.[1]

Long-form contributors to Nova included such notable and disparate writers as Graham Greene, Lynda Lee-Potter, Christopher Booker, Susan Sontag, Kenneth Allsop, Robert Robinson, Elizabeth David, with agony aunt Irma Kurtz and astrologer Patric Walker[9] making his name as Novalis.[4][1] Nova also published the autobiographical writing of Arthur Hopcraft, later expanded into his 1970 book The Great Apple Raid and Other Encounters of a Tin Chapel Tiro.[10] In the early 1970s it featured experimental "impressionistic" fashion photographs by Helmut Newton, Don McCullin, Hans Feurer and Terence Donovan.[4][11] Illustrators included Mel Calman and Stewart Mackinnon.[12]

Nova's radical approach to female liberation aroused men's curiosity too and it became famous in publishing circles as a woman's magazine that had more male readers than female, which was an aspect of its financial decline during the economic crisis of the 1970s.[13]

The magazine was revived in May 2000, but it lasted just 13 issues, closing with its June 2001 issue.[14]

Hillman and Peccinotti’s history of the magazine, Nova 1965-75, was reissued in September 2019 with a new introduction.[15]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f David Hillman (Compiler), Harri Peccinotti (Photographer), David Gibbs (Editor) (1993). Nova 1965-1975. London: Pavilion Books. p. 224. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Esther Walker (23 October 2011). "Cover girls: 300 years of women's magazines". Independent. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
  3. ^ Di Hand; Steve Middleditch (10 July 2014). Design for Media: A Handbook for Students and Professionals in Journalism, PR, and Advertising. Routledge. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-317-86402-8. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  4. ^ a b c Kate Muir, "The greatest magazine of all time", The Times, 22 April 2006.
  5. ^ Mark Pottle, "Birk, Alma Lillian, Baroness Birk (1917–1996)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, October 2008, Retrieved 30 May 2011.
  6. ^ "Harri Peccinotti – The sexuality of everyday activities". Vice.com, July 2, 2009.
  7. ^ "Harry Peccinotti talks to Filep Motwary". Dapper Dan, July 26, 2013.
  8. ^ "Twen magazine - The Most Influential Magazine of All Times?". Magazine Designing. 26 June 2013. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  9. ^ "Patric Walker – ‘the world's greatest astrologer’". Independent obituary, 9 October 1995.
  10. ^ Richard Holt, "Hopcraft, Arthur Edward (1932–2004)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, January 2008; online edn, January 2011, Retrieved 30 May 2011.
  11. ^ Robin Muir, "Donovan, Terence Daniel (1936–1996)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, October 2006, Retrieved 30 May 2011.
  12. ^ Simon Heneage, "Calman, Melville (1931–1994)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, Retrieved 30 May 2011.
  13. ^ Haggerty, Bill (4 September 2016). "Dennis Hackett obituary". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 15 January 2017.
  14. ^ Matt Wells (3 May 2001). "Nova magazine to close for second time". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
  15. ^ David Hillman (Compiler), Harri Peccinotti (Photographer), David Gibbs (Editor) (2019). Nova 1965-1975. London: Batsford Ltd. ISBN 978-1-849944-78-6. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

External links

Further reading

  • Hillman/Peccinotti, Nova 1965–1975, 2019
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