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...when he was still living in China, the artist Cai Guo-Qiang began experimenting with a very Chinese medium. And a very tricky one: gunpowder. He would sprinkle it on fibrous paper, then light it to create a "drawing" of burned residues. He moved on to produce outdoor "explosion events," using fireworks to create spectacles on the ground and in the sky that he related to Taoist ideas about destruction and transformation. By now, Cai (pronounced Sigh) is an old master of blast art. Which is funny, because at 50, he's a soft-spoken man with a modest manner...
...wisdom yet to decide. I disagree. When I once refused to eat broccoli, my mother didn’t say: “eat it because I say so.” Instead, she discussed with me the pros and cons of broccoli-eating. Now I love that delicious fibrous vegetable...
...many things can go wrong when a couple is trying to conceive, it seems a miracle that babies are ever born at all. There could be a shortage of sperm, an egg may not be in the right place and fibrous growths located along the reproductive tract can prevent the two key players from ever meeting. But now it may be possible to spot at least one of these problems easily and early: a new study suggests that a simple home test may be all it takes to help men detect a protein that could be weakening their sperm...
...things have occurred in the past couple of decades to alter that view. First, several imaging techniques were developed that allowed doctors to study blood flow in the living brain. Second, scientists learned a great deal more about the nerve endings that are embedded in the dura mater, the fibrous outer covering of the brain. Armed with these tools and that information, researchers concluded that the order of events in a migraine is not as straightforward as they had been taught. The nerve endings in the dura mater appear to act first, releasing proteins that cause the blood vessels...
...reported that students were furious and demanded the right to make s’mores and wax political (or simply procrastinate) in front of a cozy blaze. cough, cough! Another potential hazard lurking in the dorms—or grandma’s house—is asbestos. This fibrous rock, mined (not surprisingly) in Canada, emits airborne particles when processed. After years of inhalation, the particles can cause mesothelioma or other lawsuit-inducing cancers. However, it’s important to note that asbestos is only harmful when the materials it’s in are in bad condition...