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In a selection from the author’s new novel, Back to Blood, Art Basel Miami Beach casts its spell (See it! Like it! Buy it!) on an American tycoon and a Russian oligarch vying for a collection of erotic conceptual art, while a young Cuban-American gets her first glimpse of the hysteria of multi-million-dollar buying sprees. Illustrations by Paul Cox.
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James Wolcott interviews the author ahead of his new book, Back to Blood, which is set in Miami, Florida.
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Lena Dunham’s funny self-help manual just sold last week to Random House and probably won’t hit stores for at least a year—but it’s already all over the Curve.
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COUPLE SUES OVER SONS’ HARVARD REJECTION…
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The photos above show how a drop of water freezes on a cold surface:
by forming a sharp point at the top:
Researchers at the University of Twente, in the Netherlands, placed
water droplets on a plate chilled to -20 degrees Celsius and captured
images as a freezing front traveled up the droplet.The photos are published in the American Institute of Physics’ (AIP)
journal Physics of Fluids. The approximately 4-millimeter diameter droplets
took about 20 seconds to freeze. During the final stage of freezing,
the ice drop developed a pointy tip, as can be seen in Figure 1d. The
effect, which is not observed for most other liquids, arises because
water expands as it freezes. The vertical expansion of the ice, in combination
with the confining effect of surface tension on the spherical cap of
remaining liquid, leads to the point formation.
But that’s not all! After the water has frozen, the sharp tip of the
ice attracts water vapors in the air and grows a “tree” of ice
crystals!
Mitt Romney gained further ground in the FiveThirtyEight forecast on Monday, but much of the increase was because of a single poll.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/oct-8-a-great-poll-for-romney-in-perspective/
The soon-to-be major motion picture event Fifty Shades of Grey just got a screenwriter and her name, according to an announcement from Universal Pictures and its subsidiary Focus Features, is Kelly Marcel.
Marcel, as you may or may not know depending on how much slack you are willing to give bloated, uninteresting TV shows, served as co-creator and executive producer of Fox’s money-on-fire series Terra Nova. However, she also wrote the spec script for what sounds like a super-interesting movie, Saving Mr. Banks, which chronicles Walt Disney’s two-decade, dogged pursuit of the rights to author P.L. Travers’ novel Mary Poppins and will star Tom Hanks as Walt Disney’s severed, cryogenically preserved head.
Perhaps of more interest to Fifty Shades fans is that Marcel has had a working relationship with the pouty-lipped Tom Hardy (the pair recently formed a theater company together) ever since doing an emergency rewrite for Hardy’s film Bronson. Are your eyebrows raising? Could this be the latest Fifty Shades casting rumor run amuck? The Los Angeles Times, at least, does not speculate.
‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ movie lands its screenwriter [LA Times]
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The Obama campaign is taking silly season in politics to a whole new level in a television ad released on Tuesday featuring the star of last Wednesday’s debate: Big Bird.
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