Word: magical
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...find ceremonial brasses from Benin, Hawaiian feather cloaks and-most notoriously-a group of shrunken heads from the Americas (alongside trepanned skulls, and teeth that had been ritually filed to sharp points). There are tattooing and body-piercing displays, while the more squeamish can find diversion in mountains of magic charms, jewelry and ethnic sculpture. Those seeking a break from the saccharine prettiness of Oxford's colleges-or the steep prices of its centuries-old pubs-will find it here. Especially on a rainy day, and with a healthy sense of wonder...
...that period of solitary confinement, as I call it, formed me. I learned how to use my imagination working alone, so critical to film editing and writing, and how to bring my ideas together with the newest technology. But more than anything, that period planted the seed that the magic of storytelling was well within my reach...
...great to have a treatment that works. But like the women in the testosterone study who responded to a placebo showed, the real point is to create a sex life that works. Feeling is believing, and vice versa. We experience attraction and sexual desire as a sort of magic, a phenomenon filled with delightful mystery. And if scientists continue to be overwhelmed by the complex interplay of dozens of substances percolating from mind to body and back, that keeps the mystery nicely intact. --Reported by Sonja Steptoe/Los Angeles
...Barry White, but the nonstop bellowing of a male red deer over several days is apparently quite effective at inducing reproductive readiness in females. Other species use more subtle signals to seduce their mates, including a full arsenal of sexy pheromones. A little of this chemical magic goes a long way: the merest trace of a female moth's scent will attract the attention of males from miles downwind...
...board for psychology students on the Stony Brook campus of the State University of New York. I had come to believe that romantic love is a universal human feeling, produced by specific chemicals and networks in the brain. But exactly which ones? Determined to shed some light on this magic, I launched a multipart project in 1996 to collect scientific data on the chemistry and brain circuitry of romantic love...