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...More than anyone else, John Mawurndjul has changed the face of bark painting. Adapting the cross-hatch technique of body painting known as rarrk, the son of a shaman's increasingly virtuoso barks have taken what was previously seen as a craft to the exalted realm of fine art: last year, he was accorded a career retrospective at the Museum Tinguely in Basel, Switzerland. If Mawurndjul is considered the Michelangelo of rarrk, then the MQB is his Sistine Chapel. Across 150 sq m of ground-floor ceiling, his sacred billabong at Milmilngkan ripples and sings; the rarrk's kinetic power...
...varyingly terrifying and “fun”—“In Persuasion Nation” is critical reading. I only hope that, if enough attend to what it diagnoses and predicts for American culture, that its prophecies may remain safely away in a realm only “like” and never fully...
Most of the ideas in the first category come from the realm of highly inappropriate things that we think might make money similar to i-banking bucks. Such as a top-of-the-line house of ill repute. Or a strip club. Or “helping” the couple of female friends you have who fit nicely the description in the egg donor ads, providing the workless team with some cash. There’s also the slightly more Hollywood idea of becoming a band of highly skilled thieves...
...smaller ones. When the monkeys were making the choices, specific neurons in the OFC showed increasing levels of activity in correlation to values assigned to each commodity. Padoa-Schioppa said that there should be many follow up projects to this study with interesting implications, especially when stepping outside the realm of material goods. “Could the same brain area also be connected to decisions on social goods such as sex? Further research will look at questions like this,” he said...
...economic revitalization. University officials often identify the Charlesview property as the future site of a “cultural center” that will generate positive “interface” with the community, and excitedly discuss new shops, a canal, and a T-stop as within the realm of possibility. And Harvard’s properties border the campus of Boston University, giving the vision of Allston as a “hub” for interdisciplinary science an intercollegiate tinge. “I think this really has the potential to transform science at Harvard...