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...museum. The collections of the Quai Branly museum are beautifully displayed and treated as aesthetic objects rather than as historic artifacts that serve as lenses into the culture. Like a Greek krater or a Renaissance altarpiece, African textiles and Oceanic masks can be stripped of their initial context and function??their use value, in other words—and transplanted into the museum context where they acquires a new kind of value—aesthetic value...
...dealing with the post-Google generation,” says Sharmilla Sen ’92, an acquisition editor for the Humanities. Still, the editors are confident that the services they provide to academia and readers at large will not become obsolete. “We perform a scholarly function??it’s eminently transportable to other media,” Knoll says. They hope that while information-gathering is changing, the book will remain relevant. “In 20 years, there’s still going to be paper in this office...
...Still, the editors are confident that the services they provide to academia and readers at large will not become obsolete. “We perform a scholarly function??it’s eminently transportable to other media,” Knoll says. They hope that while information-gathering is changing, the book will remain relevant...
...wired,” Lichtman says. “Brainbow gives us an idea of how things are organized.” Lichtman’s group recently mapped only the second “connectome”—a group of neurons dedicated to a single function??in history. The image showed neurons for a particular mouse muscle were inexplicably longer than necessary—strongly suggesting an alternative use for the pathway.The brainbow’s bursts of color belie what its creators say is a revolutionary potential to solve the mysteries...
...rowers were chosen to represent endurance exercise and the football players were chosen to represent strength exercise. Endocardiography studies—ultrasound pictures of the heart’s structure and function??were taken at the beginning of the training...