Word: lisa
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...think a girl could be left alone after 500 years, but if anything, the scrutiny of the Mona Lisa is more intense than ever. After studying the painting with 3-D laser scanners, researchers posited last week that Leonardo da Vinci's subject was pregnant, lending scientific cred to an old theory. "People have said there is an enigma to the Mona Lisa," says historian Donald Sassoon, author of Becoming Mona Lisa. "That makes it popular because people like enigmas and secret codes." True enough. Here are some puzzles scientists and writers think they've solved in just the past...
...MONA LISA SMILE A Dutch emotion- recognition program determined that her non-grin is just 83% happy. She's also 9% disgusted, 6% fearful and 2% angry...
...it’s the most compelling listening of the year so far.Girl Talk: “Night Ripper”Mashups have been enjoying success over the last few years, but most people have considered them novelties; if they were art, they were of the moustache-on-Mona-Lisa variety. Enter “Night Ripper,” an ultra-tight 40 minute survey of pop music, 5 seconds at a time. Restlessly shifting beats, melodies, and vocals, there are enough ideas here to create hours and hours of lesser music. Instead, 250-some samples are fired...
...separate them during the week, but they usually manage three weekends a month together, and last year found time to discuss starting a family. Rosati says his wife was "aware that, for biological reasons, she needs to have the kids relatively soon or skip it." Their decision: skip it. Lisa McIntyre isn't quite so peripatetic, but she does like holidays more than the idea of raising kids. The 49-year-old university administrator and her husband David, 56, an airline pilot, shut up their home in Higham Ferrers, in central England, several times a year. For 2007, they...
BART SIMPSON O.K., so he may be just devilish, not quite the devil himself. But we bet Bart's long-suffering sister Lisa wouldn't really differentiate. She once called her mischievous big brother "the devil's cabana...