From The Independent:  You are sitting on a train, and across the aisle someone is reading one of your favourite books. This person (clearly of taste) happens to be a tall, handsome man. As you stare he looks up, catches your eye and smiles – he asks for your number... Browsing in a bookshop...
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From PhysOrg:  A team of scientists from the University of Virginia and University of North Carolina in the US have discovered a previously unidentified type of small circular DNA molecule occurring outside the chromosomes in mouse and human cells. The circular DNA is 200-400 base pairs in...
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Jacob Mikanowski in The Point:  In its material expenditure and visual profligacy, Hirst’s work is a return to the Baroque. Looking at a survey of Hirst’s work is like strolling through collections of the Schloss Ambras, the castle in Innsbruck where the Habsburgs stored all their weird...
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From Science Daily:  Despite a century of research, memory encoding in the brain has remained mysterious. Neuronal synaptic connection strengths are involved, but synaptic components are short-lived while memories last lifetimes. This suggests synaptic information is encoded and hard-wired at a...
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 Matteo Bortolini on Robert N. Bellah's Religion in Human Evolution, over at The Immanent Frame [h/t: Jonathan VanAntwerpen]:
As the readers of Religion in Human Evolution know, for example, the book unexpectedly starts…from the start, that is, from the Big Bang and the origin of the universe.... Read the whole entry »
 Elizabeth Gumport in n+1:
Where Art Belongs, the title of Chris Kraus’s latest collection of essays, sounds corrective. As if, instead of in its proper place, art is elsewhere. It has been mislaid, like a cell phone. Or perhaps, like a vase, not so much lost as thoughtlessly positioned. Where... Read the whole entry »
Money Shot Through the Crane Glass Floor
The windows of Urban Outfiters were smashed after Hova’s song about New York came on
the skateboard drive PA.
Nobody looted a thing.
(A few months later
hella goodbye Oakland Foot Locker.)
The crowd’s... Read the whole entry »
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