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Spider Season: I Wanted To Be Close To You By Katie Oliver
arts It is easy to be misled by the titles of Katie Oliver’s short stories: archly simple, the received effect is diversionary, inclined to blindside the reader towards satisfying conventional expectations. And up to a point they do, like bottles of HP Sauce, describe their contents. But Oliver’s universe is surreal, fetid, and teeming with organic purpose, as though to reify the intrinsic meaning of the title tenfold, to make an irony of its apparent directness.
Diplomats quietly help make the world go 'round
The United Nations recognizes 193 member states. Additionally, it recognizes what it calls “observer” states, which are the Vatican City and Palestine. The Encyclopedia Britannica lists 196 nations, including the Vatican City, Taiwan, and Kosovo. Most countries in the world allow for foreign embassies on their soil. Embassies help countries communicate with each other to solve problems and address issues of mutual benefit.
Prose Poem Of The Week: At The City Gates By Oz Hardwick
arts At the City Gates When the city gates open, dreams flood out, like dockers on bicycles when the four o’clock siren sings freedom, oiled chains whirring like bees. It’s been an age since anything worked, but there are grooves worn in blistered tarmac that you can see if you kick away the residue from the last high tide, and when you drop the needle the whole world spins like a charity shop album, playing a song everyone danced to when you were a teenager, though not by the original artist.
Poem Of The Week: Behind Closed Doors By Jane Draycott
arts Behind Closed Doors 'This profession requires an unruffled temper…' Titian, d. 1556 of plague Night in the nation’s gallery, an avenue of over-branching canvases walked only by security: Andromeda in chains, Callisto exiled to the silent universe – the gods, their overworld, their club. Outside, contagion’s on the streets again, bent on self-replication.
A Message From The Dead: We Are The Weather By Jim McElroy
arts Review The title of Irish writer Jim McElroy’s remarkable recent pamphlet for smith|doorstop does much to corroborate that sense of unanimity with the natural world that is a prevailing feature of his poetic métier. As mood darkens in accordance with a rural landscape that is sodden, encloistered in sepulchral light and mostly resistant to aesthetic considerations, our thoughts turn, perhaps too readily, to the black hills of R. S. Thomas’ godless breed of Welsh upland farmer.
NIMH Director’s Statement on Diversity
The director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, recently announced his commitment to changing the culture and climate of biomedical research to create an inclusive and diverse workforce. To that end, Dr. Collins has pledged to only accept speaking invitations at meetings and conferences if the organizers have taken diversity and inclusiveness seriously in selecting the speakers and developing the agenda. I immediately stood by this pledge and have put it into action.
Media Advisory: NIMH Researchers Available to Discuss the Suicide Prevention Research
Media Advisory: NIMH Researchers Available to Discuss the Suicide Prevention Research What: Suicide is a major public health concern. In 2016, suicide was the tenth leading cause of death overall in the United States, claiming the lives of nearly 45,000 people. The recent deaths of high-profile public figures and a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report on rising suicide rates have brought the topic of suicide into everyday conversations.
Poem Of The Week: ‘Hold Out Your Arms’ By Helen Dunmore
arts Written only two weeks before she died in 2017, ‘Hold out your arms’ is so much more than Helen Dunmore’s swansong. The acclaimed Beverley-born poet and novelist, who was suffering with cancer, mailed the poem to her daughter almost as an open letter of acceptance, and the astonishing clarity of Dunmore’s imagery could only have been conceived in the intensely focused awareness that imminent death appears to bring to the creative act.
Leading Neuropsychopharmacology Organization Promotes NIMH Director to Fellow Status
Dr. Joshua Gordon recognized by the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) Joshua A. Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), has been promoted to Fellow status by the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP). The announcement was made by Joseph Coyle, M.D., ACNP Secretary.
NIMH Director Joshua Gordon Elected to Rank of AAAS Fellow
American Association of the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to induct Dr. Gordon and other recipients in February ceremony Joshua A. Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), has been elected to the rank of American Association of the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow.
Two NIMH Grantees Receive Prestigious Presidential Award
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) congratulates two NIMH grantees who received the 2017 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Mary Kay Lobo from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Eric Morrow from Brown University are among the 102 scientists and researchers named as PECASE recipients.
NIMH Grantees Named Recipients of Prestigious Kavli Prize
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) congratulates three NIMH grantees who have been named recipients of the 2016 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience .
Company Plans To Build Test City in N.M.
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