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In another series, exploring the way that the skin of her subjects can be transformed and the unnatural juxtaposition of patterns on a natural body, Faiman had her models lie down on the back of a carpet square and used baby oil to experiment with the external markings she could...
British judo champ DEBBIE ALLAN thought her weight was fine when she stepped on the practice scales. But officials found tissue paper stuffed in the machinery, causing it to underreport results. Over her 115-lb. weight category by 14 oz., she cut off most of her hair and stepped on...
While most such public-health threats require a bit of epidemiological sleuthing to determine the cause, this one's a no-brainer. In the same period in which the diabetes numbers have been climbing, so have the numbers on many people's scales. In 1991 just 12% of the U.S...
In this playful way, the 31-year-old native of Buenos Aires has been able to suggest a way to knit together two theories previously thought to be incompatible: quantum mechanics, which deals with the universe at its smallest scales; and Einstein's general theory of relativity, which deals with...
One of the most profound changes afforded by the digital world is the ability to be asynchronous, in the smallest and largest time scales. In the smallest sense, this allows us to use efficiently our channels of communications; for example, interleaving people's conversations--packetizing them--so that many people...