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Oddly, the steel-tube furnishings that Bacon favored as an interior designer in the '30s also found their way years later--in ghostly outline, stripped of any associations with fashion or taste--into the stark spaces and barred enclosures of his pictures. You detect them for the first time in his series of paintings from the 1950s that were drawn from the great Velázquez portrait of Pope Innocent X. Flickering white perimeters form a cage for the Pontiff's impotent fury. Why a Pope? With Bacon there's never one answer. His great gift was for visual and psychological...
...blood test developed by Professor Amin I. Kassis of Harvard Medical School may be able to detect several different types of cancer far sooner and more accurately than current cancer screening methods allow...
...vote total (20,391,818), the runner-up for the title of World's Most Influential Person, Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim, received a mere 47 on the influence scale. Moot denies knowing about any concerted plan by his followers to influence the poll, though TIME.com's technical team did detect and extinguish several attempts to hack the vote. (See the full results here...
...people since 2003 but doesn't spread very well from one human to another, we're currently at phase 3. If the WHO upgraded that status to phase 4, which is marked by a new virus that begins to pass easily enough from person to person that we can detect community-sized outbreaks, such a move would effectively mean that we've got a pandemic on our hands...
...stars. “Harvard is very much involved [with Kepler], providing the scientific backing for the mission,” said Sasselov. Scientists said that they are optimistic about Kepler’s potential to uncover more planets beyond our Solar System. “Kepler may actually detect Earth-like planets,” said CFA scientist Scott J. Kenyon, who added that the search for Earth-like planets is a major goal of exoplanet research. “We’re trying to find lower and lower mass planets that are more and more similar...