Word: dna
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Passersby who stopped to stare at the white picket fences which mysteriously appeared in the Yard last night were probably unaware that the fences actually spell out a message in DNA code...
...fences dotting the south end of the Yard are part of "The Riddle of Life," an exhibition in Boylston Hall's Ticknor Lounge that features interpretations of a message in DNA triplets...
Delbruck's original message, a ladder of red, blue, yellow and green toothpicks which can be read like the DNA code, is reproduced in Davis' exhibit...
...nonscientists can understand or appreciate. Not this year. The $1 million 1995 prizes in physics, chemistry, economics, and medicine or physiology, announced in Stockholm last week, went to scientists who have wrestled with questions at once basic and easily grasped: What is the universe made of? How does DNA create complex life-forms? What made the hole in the ozone layer? And how do people decide how they spend and invest their money...
Mondrian may have wanted to transcend nature, but the Dutch landscape was in him like a dna code. He said there were no straight lines in nature, so that straight lines--the grid--were inherently more abstract than curves; and yet, as anyone can see in Holland, the flat horizons and punctuating verticals of mill and steeple must have affected him right from the start. The momentum of his work begins with landscape--the delicate screens and friezes of trees above watery meadows, in their pearly gray light. The color explodes in 1908 with his Mill in Sunlight, an orgiastic...