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...most common cause of death from heroin is overdose, with 22% of the subjects in the long-term study dying that way. Some of the health problems associated with heroin come from the impurities it is cut with. Overdoses often spring from an uncut batch that is unexpectedly pure...
...Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings...
...technology: that it’s functional. Unlike, say, a giraffe, what’s interesting about the facebook isn’t what it looks like or eats; it’s what you can do with it. Some naming schemes for technologies exhibit this in very pure form: they’ve come from verbs, as with the venerable toaster. The rest of the time, though, smart people invent things and give them names. For a while we’re content to talk about them as objects, but sooner or later we realize that their...
...Seascapes, another of Sugimoto's most famous series, are photographs of horizons, where the water meets the sky, taken all over the world, in all types of weather. From afar, they are pure blocks of contrasting shade. Light on top, dark on the bottom (or sometimes, intriguingly, the reverse), they look at first like little more than a homage to Mark Rothko's color-field painting. But up close, each photo is marvelously detailed. Wisps of clouds are clearly defined and individual wave crests reflect the sun at different but interlacing angles. Displayed together so that the horizons all line...
...tusk].” The Inuits, an indigenous people living in the Arctic, are very familiar with the animals. Nweeia, who also has a full-time dental practice in Connecticut, said he pursued research of the narwhal’s tusk “out of pure childlike curiosity.” During his first week-long trip to the Arctic, Nweeia spent a week alone with an Inuit guide. On his second trip to the Arctic, he brought his friend and experienced photographer, Joseph Meehan. Teams of scientists from Canada, Denmark, and the United States accompanied...