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...also seems to have found inspiration within Harvard’s walls. He made “On the Basics of Newtonian Forces” in a VES directed research class. For the installation, Liu hung small, square canvases on the wall with larger rectangular and triangular ones, connected—through laws of physics—with ropes and some pulley systems...

Author: By Cara B. Eisenpress, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Finding Magic in the Mundane | 2/16/2006 | See Source »

...part because of numerous medical, ethical and psychological concerns that had to be considered first. That's one reason it was so startling to learn last week that the first face transplant--albeit a partial one--has taken place. Doctors in France reported that they took a triangular patch of facial tissue containing the nose, lips and chin of a brain-dead donor and transplanted them onto a 38-year-old mother of two who had been severely mauled by a dog last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Transplant First | 12/4/2005 | See Source »

...tree-house designs of Bremen, Germany-based Baumraum architect Andreas Wenning are more modest in scale, but lean toward the avant garde (www.baum raum.de). A triangular construction, for example, suspended on steel ropes more than 8 m above ground between two beeches, is designed to resemble a ship. The one-room, 7-sq-m dwelling, on the grounds of a livery stable near Bremen, serves as the owner's weekend retreat. It boasts a glass-topped lookout, terrace and hatch-door entry, as well as heating and electricity. So if you have the urge to nest, look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Posh Perches | 6/20/2005 | See Source »

...stilts around 16 mature lime trees, hosts private and corporate events, and includes a 120-seat restaurant, two classrooms and two private dining rooms. The tree-house designs of Bremen, Germany-based Baumraum architect Andreas Wenning are more modest in scale, but lean toward the avant garde (www.baumraum.de). A triangular construction, for example, suspended on steel ropes more than 8 m above ground between two beeches, is designed to resemble a ship. The one-room, 7-sq-m dwelling, on the grounds of a livery stable near Bremen, serves as the owner's weekend retreat. It boasts a glass-topped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Posh Perches | 6/19/2005 | See Source »

...Moscow entirely devoted to the purpose of discovering the 'materialist' (that is, 'physical') basis for Lenin's political and philosophical genius." Two years and 34,000 slices later, Vogt found, and the Journal of the American Medical Association reported, a "large number of paths proceeding from the pyramidal cells [triangular nerve cells in the cerebral cortex]." These were taken to explain "the wide range and the multiplicity of ideas that developed in the brain of Lenin and, particularly, his capacity for quickly getting his bearings when confronted with the most complex situations and problems ..." Conclusion? "The key to a materialistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: In Search of the Silver Bullet | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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