How James Turrell Knocked the Art World Off Its Feet - NYTimes.com
I love Close’s quotes. Turrell’s work has always made me feel this way: when you can so profoundly, and elegantly, push the buttons and pull the levers of perception, what else could there be? Sitting on the Maine coast early on a foggy morning, it is easy to see why Turrell is so effective, but also ways push those buttons differently….at least without having to pick up a spare volcanic crater…or two.
A wrinkly, grey-haired look into aging
While the indications of aging are all around us, in that extra bit of effort it takes to get out of bed in the morning or the thinning hair atop your head, scientists still are trying to understand just how aging occurs.
A new study in the journal Cell points to the possible culprit: The culmination of years of genetic damage, and the body’s often counter-intuitive reactions to that deterioration.
The body reacts to these triggers in ways that exacerbate problems — no longer signaling cells to divide, for instance. We also run out of tissue stem cells. Communication among cells becomes riddled with errors, a factor associated with cancer.
Rounding out the list are deregulated nutrient sensing, mitochondrial dysfunction and cellular senescence.
The cause for all of this study of our decaying state, as it turns out, is a positive one, in the words of the stud’s coauthor Carlos Lopez-Otin:
“We don’t aspire to immortality, just to the possibility of making life a little better for us all.”
Read more over at Science Now.
Photo: Richard Hartog / Los Angeles Times
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If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.
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