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...point of being unrecognizable. She also incorporated her subject matter into the artistic process, for example by placing the leaves in her camera and treating them as negatives.“These leaf images are at once very artistic and very scientific, but it is not something I consciously strive for,” writes Means in an email. “As a result of the... direction in my work, I have become very interested in learning more about the interactions of science and art.”“To put it another way, I am interested...
Humans are supposed to be rational creatures. But while we strive to base our decisions on thoughtful deliberation and analysis, the occasional fit of passion has been known to creep in. Jonah Lehrer explores these warring impulses, revealing the mind to be a series of competing catalysts, a tangled network of reason and emotion. Using a raft of anecdotes and scientific studies, Lehrer answers some seemingly simple--and highly entertaining--questions. Does expensive wine really taste better than the cheap stuff, or are we biased by the price? Why do we spend more with a credit card than...
...team certainly hoped for change. Hollingsworth and Guest spent nearly five months training for the Lyons event, motivated, Hollingsworth says, "by the sense that the U.S. is always the underdog. A lot of Europeans still think that American cuisine is hamburgers and hotdogs. That just makes me want to strive harder." At their kitchen in California, they ran time trials, tinkering with everything from the garnish on their pistachio-crusted cod to the shape of their beef filet (in the end, it went from square to round), and learning to move past each other in a graceful ballet...
...West Bank only a few months ago, and I got an earful from all sides. People still recall the libel suit we won against Ariel Sharon in 1985 and Yasser Arafat's selection as one of our Men of the Year for 1993. But for all that, we strive to make sense of this volcanic part of the world and help our readers understand what's at stake. We do it using the perspective of our decades of experience covering this never-ending struggle...
...critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds...