Ephemeral Museums in Pandemic Era: Bari and the Museo Provinciale that Was There, that Has Been and Has Never Been

Never Has There Been a Shade1

“O this date [in 1618] Abu’l Hasan the artist, who had been awarded the title Nadir al-Zaman [Wonder of the Age], presented a painting he had made .... Since it was worthy of praise, he was shown limitless favor. Without exaggeration, his work is perfect, and his depiction is a masterpiece of the age.” These were the words of Emperor Jahangir of the Mughal Dynasty of India. “Abu’l Hasan’s fathe...

The Americas region declares that rubella has been eliminated.

The Dog That Didn't Bark: Has Inflation Been Muzzled or Was It Just Sleeping?

2. Inflation and Unemployment during Recessions (mean change from beginning of recession, quarterly data) Despite large rises in unemployment during the Great Recession, inflation has been remarkably stable in almost all advanced economies. This is different from the recessions in the 1970s and 1980s, when inflation fell much more when unemployment rose. Figure 3.1. The Behavior of Inflation Ha...

It has been conjectured that self-replicating systems will enab

It has been conjectured that self-replicating systems will enable complex macroscale objects to be made in a reasonable time using nanoscale assembly processes [1]. Self-replicating systems might also be used within reconfigurable structures on any scale, such as micro-circuits. An abstract model of a programmable constructor in a kinematic simulation environment is presented. This programmable...

Cerebrovascular research: the opportunity has never been better.

IN LESS THAN FIFTY YEARS, cerebrovascular research has changed from a predominantly morphological and clinical descriptive science to one characterized by the use of the tools of modern cellular biology and clinical investigation. In addition, the brain and its blood supply in health and in disease are now recognized as a unique biological entity for which vascular models in other parts of the ...