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Confronting The Beautiful Mess of Adult Life

What Grant Achatz Saw at El Bulli - Diner's Journal Blog - NYTimes.com

What it's like in the kitchen (and to some degree, mind) of Ferran Adria of El Bulli...

http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/what-grant-achatz-saw-at-el...


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Yuri Kruman
J.D., 2009
Cardozo School of Law

Malaria Most Likely Killed King Tut, Scientists Say - NYTimes.com

So, it wasn't hydrocephaly, after all, just malaria and a host of other health problems, that killed poor King Tut...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/science/17tut.html?hp


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Yuri Kruman
J.D., 2009
Cardozo School of Law

Whole Genome of Ancient Human Is Decoded for the First Time - NYTimes.com

Wowza! This genomic analysis of an ancient haircut's remains in Greenland seems to point to a heretofore unknown migration of Asiatic people across the very north of North America, all the way to Greenland. Not perfect proof, but as close as it gets. This should change a few theories about who "discovered" the continent first, and when...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/science/11genome.html?hpw


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Yuri Kruman
J.D., 2009
Cardozo School of Law

maggie nelson: on color - bookforum.com / booklist

A review of several excellent volumes in the subjects of color aesthetics, color theory, synesthesia, and related topics.

http://www.bookforum.com/booklist/4754


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Yuri Kruman
J.D., 2009
Cardozo School of Law

NYRblog - The Dull New Global Novel - The New York Review of Books

Bit sad, if true. If we're all converging toward an international style and away from local flavor (save the magical realism for Rushdie and Marquez), it doesn't leave much room for the intellect to roam other than in the lingua anglica. Fortunately for me, I write in that most wonderously endless language, already. Wonderous, yet frustrating for its often conspicuous inability to express entire worlds of association in concise, pregnant phrases, without evoking puzzlement.

Perhaps, this is but a testament to the death of erudition. Alas, then.

http://blogs.nybooks.com/post/379987448/the-dull-new-global-novel


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Yuri Kruman
J.D., 2009
Cardozo School of Law

Excavation uncovers evidence supporting mosaic Jerusalem map

The Madaba map of Jerusalem proven accurate, at least regarding David Street, which appears to have een as busy centuries ago, under Christian rule.

http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=168385


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Yuri Kruman
J.D., 2009
Cardozo School of Law

rachel aviv: schizophrenic memoirs - bookforum.com / booklist

A quick look at several biographical accounts of the straitjacket that is a sentence of schizophrenia on one's use of language, even as it seems to greatly enhance the linguistic acuity of the disease's bearer...

http://www.bookforum.com/booklist/3925


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Yuri Kruman
J.D., 2009
Cardozo School of Law

calamities of exile - bookforum.com / in print

Keith Gessen on the unexpected commonalities between Said's and Solzhenitsin's intellectual obsessions, among them - naturally, inevitably, and unfortunately - Jews. Both were complex and influential men with often simplistic political prescriptions, if not altogether incorrect predictions for where the world is going. Lots of caveats come with each. We conclude that both wanted too much to have political effect over and above that inherent in their writing. Fortunately, both were failures in this department.

http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/015_04/2975


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Yuri Kruman
J.D., 2009
Cardozo School of Law

Revising Book on Disorders of the Mind - NYTimes.com

A battle between politics and policy, as much as between over- medication and common sense, pharma and the Hippocratic Oath...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/health/10psych.html?hp


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Yuri Kruman
J.D., 2009
Cardozo School of Law