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...other contemporary Philippine artists such as Geraldine Javier, Winner Jumalon and Benedicto Cabrera are being sold with increasing frequency and success at auctions and galleries in Hong Kong, Singapore, London and New York City. Mok Kim Chuan, the head of Southeast Asian art at Sotheby's, calls it a nascent boom with room to run. "It took 20 years for Indonesian art to grow to where it is now in the market," he says. "The Philippines has only just started...
That lack of conclusive data hasn't deterred the nascent neurobics market. Sales are expected to jump from $265 million to up to $5 billion by 2015, according to a May report from market-research firm SharpBrains, which will sponsor the industry's first conference, set to begin Jan. 18. (Watch TIME's video about exercising with a hula hoop...
...late '90s, epigenetic phenomena were regarded as a sideshow to the main event, DNA. To be sure, epigenetic marks were always understood to be important: after all, a cell in your brain and a cell in your kidney contain the exact same DNA, and scientists have long known that nascent cells can differentiate only when crucial epigenetic processes turn on or turn off the right genes in utero...
...root of Harvard University’s name comes from Emmanuel College, Cambridge graduate John Harvard, who bequeathed his estate and half his library collection to what was then a nascent college when he died...
...survive, and "the solution that evolved was religious behavior"--humankind's best organizing principle. Ritual chants and dances fostered kinship and inspired tribes to battle outside threats. As language developed, people ascribed their good fortune to the supernatural, and efforts to please a deity later kept order in nascent civil societies. As our ancestors learned to read, they wrote sacred texts; as they created social hierarchies, they introduced priests. Religious fervor has dwindled of late, Wade argues, because Judaism, Christianity and Islam have failed to keep pace with human knowledge. For faith to thrive, religions must adapt. History shows they...