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...your own DNA going up? You know, strangely, one person we forgot to include was me. Of course, my DNA will physically be there; my skin cells will be on it. So you won't need to send my digital sequence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space Tourist Richard Garriott | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...statement about his particular life and times, though his life played a part in it, and so did his times. What Bacon was after was something deeper. He wanted to make the body the visible sign of the eternal devils of human nature, the dog beneath the skin that bares its fangs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Francis Bacon: Tragic Genius | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...measure that sensitivity, researchers conducted two tests. In one, they showed volunteers a series of photos that included some threatening images - for example, a picture of a man with a spider on his face or an infected open wound - while measuring the electrical conductance of the volunteers' skin, a technique also used in polygraph testing. In a separate experiment, researchers subjected the volunteers to sudden bursts of loud white noise to test their startle reflexes, measured by sensors attached to the muscle below the eye that recorded how hard people blinked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Startle Reflex: Key to Your Politics | 9/19/2008 | See Source »

...promised land.” This is the worst of Hemingway: completely unnecessary, uncontrolled racism, plain and simple. Rather than taking the time to describe Cohn as a person, an individual, with individualized attributes, Hemingway just lazily throws catch-all racist epithets that go no more than skin deep. But this time, I managed to hang on beyond those discouraging first pages. I quickly got caught up in the game of following Hemingway’s characters from location to location in Paris, lost in the fun of envisioning the streets where I had just been —sometimes...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summer Reading: The Sun Also Rises | 9/19/2008 | See Source »

...technique allows scientists to manipulate a patient’s cells genetically—typically skin cells or blood cells—and reprogram them into a pluripotent state. Like embryonic stem cells, these iPS cells are then capable of morphing into any type of body tissue...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summer Happenings at Harvard Medical School | 9/14/2008 | See Source »

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