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...Davenport College, claims to have assembled a number of “fabricators” for her project who, at regular intervals in the last year, provided her with sperm samples which she injected into herself with needle-free syringes. At the end of each month, Shvarts would ingest an abortifacient, which caused her to experience cramps and heavy bleeding. The artist remains unsure of whether she was actually ever pregnant, but this does not discount the purpose of her project: to raise important questions about our societal perceptions of sex.Regardless, in undertaking the expression, Shvarts has tapped into...
...people are like, “Whatever.” But if I say, “There is fantastic Chinese food in Singapore,” then they’re interested. Because food is something that’s totally universal and everyone shares. You ingest it; you are what you eat. THC: Did the focus of the book shift in its evolution? Did any topic surprise you by coming to the forefront?JL: Well, when I started out, I didn’t know fortune cookies were Japanese. So that was surprising and really came...
Still, the scientific establishment disagrees. In a 2006 summary explaining its review of bisphenol A safety, the European Food Safety Authority argued that animal trials of the chemical simply don't tell us very much about humans. For one thing, when humans ingest the compound, it's quickly excreted through the urine; when rats and mice eat it, it's released into the bloodstream and remains in the body much longer - with much more time to throw off the body's sex-hormone balance, causing nasty effects...
...make sure the rash shows up in a highly visible, not-so-private place. 7) Make a donation—a big donation. Make sure Harvard knows it’s from you. 8) Rub Hemp Granola crumbs into your contacts—temporary blindness trumps final exam. 9) Ingest several pounds of raw, room temperature cookie dough—if Salmonella doesn’t get you, queasiness will. 10) Poster gum yourself to the floor—claim physical and mental incompetency. 11) Get too friendly with the squirrels in the yard—rabies...
...emotional one. I shrink back as a professor walks by. “Take one!” he says, “they’ll be replaced.” Elated and relieved, I crouch down and pick up a piece, then unwrap the toffee and ingest the art. All the while, I feel small waves of my sacrilegious act crush down into my stomach.Both rich and minimalist, “Untitled” embodies the themes of identity and mortality that run throughout his work. González-Torres, a Cuban-born American, remains known...