Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Green Bird. Most of the artists created new works for the museum, and they came to the opening to purr over their work. Miró built a cluster of giant terra-cotta and cement sculptures, including a huge green bird, a giant pitchfork, and a Miró-size ceramic egg in a pool. As the opening festivities for 150 select guests wore on into the flower-scented twilight, he could not tear himself away and sat on a wall, clucking like a proud hen: "Look at that egg! It's the largest egg in the world...
...entertains you while you wait on the spiraled ramps-no other exhibit can make this claim. Once in, the People Wall whisks you up into the giant egg where the Information Machine reveals that you too can be a computer, of sorts...
Although no one yet knows just how IUCDS prevent conception, it is certain that-unlike the diaphragm, which covers the cervix-they do not prevent passage of the sperm into the uterus and along the Fallopian tube to meet the egg. Since they definitely trigger excessive contractions of the uterine muscles and of the Fallopian tubes, they may cause displacement of the egg before it has time to be fertilized or to settle in the wall of the womb...
...however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely the old problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg. In any case there is much to be said on both sides...
...only cheaper than cattle but much quicker to breed, he inseminated thousands of does with sperm that had been allowed to settle under varying conditions. His early results were not promising, but after three years of experimentation he hit on a winning combination. He mixed rabbit sperm with egg yolk and glycol, and stored the solution for twelve hours in a refrigerator at slightly above the freezing point to keep the sperm from swimming and allow them to separate by sedimentation. Then he used the sample to inseminate 176 rabbits. Those that got the upper portion produced 77.4% male offspring...