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...peace and quiet, visit the ivy-clad New Jewish Cemetery, 1 Israelska, where Franz Kafka rests. The beautifully sculpted tombstones in this 115-year-old graveyard function as a sort of outdoor gallery of 20th century artistic styles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bohemia's Bohemia | 3/6/2006 | See Source »

...right, I was sleep deprived. So what? Still confident that there was nothing wrong with my ability to function at full capacity, I flew to San Francisco, where NASA's Ames Research Center keeps a full-size virtual-motion simulator of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet. It's the next best thing to really flying. After a few hours of training and several takeoffs and landings, I had mastered the 747--or so I thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Sleep Deprived | 3/5/2006 | See Source »

Whether moving and speaking Swahili to illustrate the function of vocal and physical gesture in storytelling or describing how scientists and dancers are collaborating to create work about the human genome, Foster provides a significant example of how to fruitfully combine a keen intellect with embodied creativity. And in the end, it’s all about the intersections in teaching and in art: “I give to you when you reach out to me. It’s what happens in the integration of the work and the observer...

Author: By Zoe M. Savitsky, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Deborah Foster | 3/2/2006 | See Source »

...peace and quiet, visit the ivy-clad New Jewish Cemetery, 1 Israelska, where Franz Kafka rests. The beautifully sculpted tombstones in this 115-year-old graveyard function as a sort of outdoor gallery of 20th century artistic styles. For a great view of the hood (and a nosy peek at residents' backyards), climb the 216-m-high, Soviet rocket?like TV tower to its indoor viewing deck. Crawling up and down the tower's pillars are provocateur Czech artist David Cerny's large black babies - definitely more David Lynch than Merchant Ivory. 1 Mahlerovy sady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bohemia's Bohemia | 2/28/2006 | See Source »

...subsequently in the accumulation of the protein in the brain­—which leads to disease. However, according to Lindquist, once scientists identify the characteristics of healthy prions, it may be possible to prevent them from becoming abnormal. “Maybe if we knew the biological function of the [healthy] prions, we could lock them into the normal protein structure,” she said. Lindquist, along with colleagues at the Harvard Medical School, found that in embryonic brain cells where healthy prion concentration was high, there was an increase in the proliferation of the brain cells...

Author: By Christina E. Tartaglia, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Proteins Promote Brain Cell Growth | 2/28/2006 | See Source »

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