Category Archives: Beautiful

One Another

Posted on 22 May 2014 by Jeremy Mercer

Books have always been comfortable camouflage for me. A novel in your pocket is a superpower; pull it out and you’re transformed from awkward misfit to contented savant. The same goes for a notebook and pen and don’t get me … Continue reading →

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Bacteria—Genome—Baby Boy

Posted on 06 Jul 2012 by Adrian Hornsby

The image (see image right) shows a colony of Bacillus subtilis. Each of the little grains is one bacterium, with the striae of colour denoting the various lineages present, which express different fluorescent proteins. Initially the scientists had them all … Continue reading →

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Christmas Cake Sky Burial

Posted on 07 Jan 2011 by Adrian Hornsby

Ok. 2011. Let’s get the heck on with it.

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Turf Feinz

Posted on 28 Nov 2010 by Quinn

Some neighborhoods of Oakland California have an apocalyptic demeanor – emptiness, decay, squalor – but instead of zombies they have street dancers. Turfing is an improvised storytelling dance executed with stupefying precision by some of Oakland’s impassioned youth. One group of … Continue reading →

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Ceci N’est Pas un Pipe

Posted on 23 Nov 2010 by Sparkle Hayter

Years ago, a Japanese inflight magazine did a series of interviews with writers and publishers set up around the idea of fiction vs. non-fiction. One of the people interviewed  was a publisher of delectable art books featuring nature who maintained … Continue reading →

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The Chinese Dream

Posted on 05 Dec 2008 by KMZ

The London launch of the redoubtably fat Chinese Dream, held in the library of the devastatingly swankAthanaeum. 2 December 2008, 18.30–21.00 The Chinese Dream n. 1. individual prosperity within a modern urban setting 2. continuing Party-led ascent toward superpowerdom (preferably with … Continue reading →

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