Word: backgrounder
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Halamka volunteered to participate in the PGP primarily due to his background combining medicine and technology...
...shares a similar appeal. In “Long Life Cool White” the subjects are two oblong fluorescent bulbs hanging from a room’s ceiling on metal chains. Only the lights and the strings that turn them on are in focus; the workroom in the background is secondary to the bulbs and the emphatic promise emblazoned across their sides: “GUARANTEED: Long Life, Cool White.” Indeed, there is something very cool about Davey’s photographs. Most are slightly grainy and few are bright or colorful. The prints?...
...truly epic “More News from Nowhere” closes the album with recurring allusions to Homer’s “Odyssey.” Again, Cave’s weathered vocals take center stage, but the narrative fits firmly between the faint white-noise background and the soft guitar plucks. Ultimately, nihilism turns to exhausted agnosticism as Cave laments his own insignificance: “Don’t it make you feel alone? / Don’t it make you want to get right back home?” For Cave, at least, home...
...Personally, I would have appreciated having a little bit of a talk about Bulgaria, and its historical and current culture and socio-economic background,” said Erica Sigal, a local resident...
...students,” Pilbeam said in a statement. Wrangham and Ross first came to the United States after living and being educated in Great Britain. A member of Harvard’s faculty since 1989, Wrangham has taught courses in human evolutionary biology and anthropology. Ross, whose academic background is in immunology, is the founder and executive director of the Kasiisi Project, a non-profit in western Uganda. Wrangham co-taught the Core class Science B-29: “Evolution of Human Nature” for a number of years, but he said he considers...