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Wired News - Jonah Lehrer wants scientists to bone up on the classics. A former neuroscience lab drone, the 26-year-old Rhodes scholar would devour pages of Marcel Proust's Swann's Way whenever he wasn't spinning down DNA. In the process, he made a discovery ...

Belfast Telegraph - If you hadn't already discovered Fionn Regan, you may recognise the Irish singer-songwriter from his nomination for this year's Mercury Music Prize, when he delivered a breathtaking performance of his song "Be Good or Be Gone". That he compared being ...

Daily Telegraph - A photograph of two young girls owned by Sir Elton John and seized from an art exhibition is not an indecent image, the Crown Prosecution Service has ruled. The picture, by the American photographer Nan Goldin, was removed from the exhibition at the ...

Forbes - LONDON, October 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The Royal College of Art and Brioni, Italy's leading menswear luxury brand have sealed a three-year academic partnership agreement with the purpose of passing on the teachings of sartorial techniques to a new ...

New York Times - A drawing of the mummified, tattooed head of a Maori warrior at the Museum of Natural History at Rouen in Normandy. Mayor Pierre Albertini of Rouen, left, and Ambassador Sarah Dennis of New Zealand signed an agreement to return the head to New ...

International Herald Tribune - FERRARA, Italy : 'Great and splendid is Florence, yet the worth of all her heaped-up treasures does not equal Ferrara's jewels," declares a character in Goethe's drama on the life of the Ferrara court poet Tasso. Of all Italy's glittering Renaissance ...

International Herald Tribune - BRUSSELS, Belgium : Sixteen dinner guests sit at a long, narrow table discussing the ozone layer in a hodgepodge of languages, from English to Dutch to Japanese. The buzz of their exchanges fills a cavernous gallery at the BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts ...

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - (October 26, 2007) — Jon Karafin of Rochester has turned the city's Public Safety Building into something of a laboratory. With the help of a group of Rochester After School Academy students, Karafin is constructing a 25-foot-high experimental ...

Oregonian - All phone numbers listed are area code 503. Cinema 21: 616 N.W. 21st Ave. (223-4515). Admission: $4-$7. Details: www.cinema21.com. "Bladerunner: The Final Cut" (1982, 117 min.) See review. Mon-Thu. Check Web site for times. 4:30, 7 and 9:25 p.m. Fri ...

Oregonian - Six years ago, the residents at Mary's Woods, a retirement community in Lake Oswego, decided to host a yearly art show. This year, for the first time, the show will be open to the public, and that made me wonder. It seemed natural that anything made ...