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“International Exhibition of Modern Art” Armory Show @ 100 years
European masterpieces were on show, but also works by US artists, including Hartley’s, Still Life, No.1, 1912, which are often overlooked One of the most notorious cultural events of the 20th century, marking the dawn of America’s love affair with Modernism. And yet, as the Armory Show reaches its centenary, the full picture of…
Research says: you are more happy than your friends if you have sex more often..
People feel happier if they believe they are having more sex than their peers. Researchers compared sex to income: People are happy if they have more than the people around them. Study participants who reported having sex at least once a week were 44% happier than those who hadn’t had sex in the past year….
Afghanistan responsible for more than 90 per cent of the world’s heroin.
United Nations’ early assessment of the 2013 crop found farmers were planning to plant more poppy than last year, marking the third annual rise in the drug’s cultivation. UN officials predict the increase will push this year’s crop close to 2007’s record level and again see Afghanistan responsible for more than 90 per cent of…
United States IRS Agents Probe Deeply into Everybodys E-mail
The ACLU has obtained internal IRS documents that say Americans enjoy “generally no privacy” in their e-mail messages, Facebook chats, and other electronic communications. Internal Revenue Service doesn’t seem to believe it needs a search warrant before reading your e-mail. Newly disclosed documents prepared by IRS lawyers says that Americans enjoy “generally no privacy” in…
Resistant Infections, a crisis of paralysis of modern medicine
The combination of the Arab Spring and the economic crisis in southern Europe has led to a quiet panic spreading in hospitals across the Mediterranean Basin. “With the disorganization of medical services, the number of infections resisting most known antibiotics has literally exploded,” says professor Patrice Nordmann, chief of the bacteriology-virology-parasitology department at the…