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...Life and the Tree of Knowledge. However, while the lush and fully grown tree in “Blossom” exudes vivacity, the bareness of the tree in “Constellation” implies death. For Biggers, then, the tree is an “axis mundi...beyond life, fourth-dimensional...

Author: By Alex E. Traub | Title: Going Underground: Biggers’ New Exhibition Explores Slavery | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...Since 2006, California company H2Om has sold water infused with wishes for "love," "joy" and "perfect health" via the words, symbols and colors on the label (which "create a specific vibratory frequency," according to co-founder Sandy Fox) and the restorative music played at their bottling warehouse. At Creo Mundi, a Canadian maker of protein powder, employees gather around each shipment and state aloud the benefits they hope to imbue it with for their consumers--increased performance, balance and vitality. Intentional Chocolate, founded in 2007 by chocolatier Jim Walsh, uses a special recording device to capture the electromagnetic brain waves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mind over Chocolate | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

Weekend nights at Harvard see women and men flocking to room parties, student organization events, and of course, the ubiquitous final club mansions that line Mt. Auburn Street. These houses are the axis mundi of Harvard’s social scene, and have recently become slightly more gender-equal. In January, the President of the Isis Club—one of the two female final clubs on campus—announced that the social organization had finalized an agreement with the Owl Club—one of the eight male final clubs—to rent space inside the Owl?...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Trading Spaces | 2/1/2008 | See Source »

...Queen, then waited to collect Brown after he accepted Her Majesty's request to form a new government. Blair left the palace a private man in a regular car, gearing up for the uncertainties of his new assignment as a peacemaker in the Middle East. Sic transit gloria mundi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moving Day | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

Though Ellroy admitted it was unlikely that they would find the killer 35 years after the fact, he knew the real investigation was of his mother’s life and his relationship with her. “She’s out there in the big spiritus mundi,“ he mused. “I’d give anything to hear her voice...

Author: By Joe L. Dimento, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ellroy Shows Life’s Gritty Details | 10/22/2004 | See Source »

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