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Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean - Gazing Ball (Tiger Hunt)

“I love to make reference to other artists - kind of art about art in that it’s a way to time travel, pay homage to our forebears. Everything - all the information, all the knowledge, everything that has been brought to the table to this moment”

Peter Paul Rubens painted The Tiger Hunt in 1616 in Antwerp. In Koons’s work, the gazing ball covers up the view through to the bright, blue seascape; the world behind the action is replaced with the world in front of it. 

See this work and many more in Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean until 9 Jun. Booking essential #JeffKoonsOxford

Oedipe et le Sphinx / Oedipus and the Sphinx (1903) François-Émile Ehrmann

Wolves by Ivan Bilibin.

This virus actually may boost -- not weaken -- our immune system

Lifelong cytomegalovirus infection may be beneficial, boosting the immune system in old age, when we need it most, according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Our immune system is at its peak when we’re young, but after a certain age, it declines and it becomes more difficult for our bodies to fight off new infections.

“That’s why older people are more susceptible to infections than younger people,” explains Janko Nikolich-Zugich, MD, PhD, co-director or the University of Arizona Center on Aging and chairman of the Department of Immunobiology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson.

In search of a way to rejuvenate the immune system of older adults, Dr. Nikolich-Zugich and Megan Smithey, PhD, have found that one particular virus may not weaken, but actually enhance our immune system. Their findings are published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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I don’t like the higher interest rates, and how the deficit is just rapidly increasing. It’s slowing down the economy, the mortgage interest rate is 1/3 higher since trump took office, it’ll lead to a recession. Health care is privatized and just getting more expensive, and Trump clearly isn’t doing anything about that. I don’t agree with the tax cuts on the wealthy either, but if he would do s o m e t h i n g, anything, to help the majority out instead of tweeting 24/7 I’d be on board with him. He tried to reduce the money going to food stamps, tried to cut money going to CHIP, and he withheld money that was supposed to go to Obamacare, dick move. He also is doing nothing about health care, how can you even call him a good president fffs

Donald Trump won the presidency because of the identity politics of whiteness.

Donald Trump won because of the idiot politics of the left, it had nothing to do with whiteness. The Republicans could’ve put up a festering boil farm on Rosue Odonnels ass and I’d have voted for that festering boil over Killary or Barney.

Shit, a festering boil farm would’ve had a better tax and budget plan than either Killary or Barney.

Russian legends

John William Godward (1861-1922)

The Mirror, 1899 l A Priestess, 1894 l A Priestess II, 1893

Perseus and Andromeda, 1891, by Frederic Leighton (1830-1896).

This painting depicts the Greek myth of Andromeda. Andromeda was the daughter of the King and Queen of Ethiopia. Her mother made the bold claim that her daughter was more beautiful than any sea nymph. Once hearing this, the sea nymphs called on their father Poseidon to take control of a sea monster, and attack the Ethiopian kingdom. Seeing no alternative, the King and Queen chained their daughter to a rock, sacrificing her.

Heroically, Perseus was flying his famed winged horse Pegasus nearby, and came to save Andromeda by slaying the beast. Perseus and Andromeda then fell in love.

Leighton portrays the moment in which Perseus, seen flying above, shooting arrows at the beast. Andromeda stands helpless and contorted under threat.

10 Viruses that Will Kill You: Up Close & Personal

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Left-to-Right / Top-to-Bottom:

(1) Dengue Fever; (2) HIV;

(3) Swine Flu; (4) Measles;

(5) Poliovirus; (6) SARS;

(7) Smallpox; (8) Simian;

(9) West Nile; (10) Yellow Fever.

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Source: University of Wisconsin