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Can Living Cells Become Art?
When people say, “It’s an art, not a science,” they usually mean that art and science belong to separate worlds. Art is seen as emotional, creative, and subjective. Science is treated as logical, measurable, and evidence-based. But neuroscience makes that divide harder to defend. The brain is both the organ that studies the world and…
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International Museum of Surgical Science
The International Museum of Surgical Science is one of Chicago’s most unusual museums. It combines the history of medicine and surgery with the history of one of the city’s remaining lakefront mansions. Located on Lake Shore Drive in the Gold Coast, the museum occupies the Eleanor Robinson Countiss House. The house is a French-inspired mansion…
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The Lotus Across Egyptian, Greek, and Roman Visual Culture
Few flowers traveled through the ancient Mediterranean quite like the lotus. The form appears in Egyptian art, Greek architecture and pottery, and Roman decorative traditions, but its journey is more complicated than a simple story of one culture borrowing from another. In ancient Egypt, the lotus was closely connected to ideas of creation, regeneration, and…
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