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/ Founded in 1999, Modus Operandi, an independent arts unit with a track record of curating and producing high-quality art in the public realm, recently celebrated its 21st birthday. To mark this milestone, the company selected 21 projects at random, spanning the years since Vivien Lovell soft-launched the company. Vivien is a visual arts curator with established expertise in commissioning permanent and temporary art within the public realm Prior to founding Modus Operandi, she had been Founder-Director of Public Art Commissions Agency (PACA) from 1987 to 1999. She has championed the field o...

Sarah Urwin Jones And so we creep out of the long winter towards the dawn light of spring and the prospect of seeing the people and places from which we have been so long separated. As if to cement it, on 13 April, another of Scotland's art galleries – An Lanntair in Stornoway - opens its real world doors to the public, the farther isles showing those of us on the mainland the cultural light on the horizon. Appropriate then that this exhibition, part of An Lanntair's Dark Skies festival, which has largely been confined to the internet and our back gardens this last month, should be ab...

Compound isolated from sea sponge fights cancer cells Written by Beth JoJack on March 7, 2021 — Fact checked by Anna Guildford, Ph.D. Scientists believe novel chemicals with the potential to cure human illness may be found in the ocean. Researchers chemically synthesized a compound that had been isolated from a sea sponge. The compound — 3,10-dibromofascaplysin — was tested on various prostate cancer cells. The synthesized compound forces tumor cells to die. It works well in combination with several already approved anti-cancer drugs. Much of the ocean remains unexplored, unknown to hu...

Last modified on Wed 24 Feb 2021 05.35 EST King orders army to crush coup: civil guards seize Spain’s parliament By Bill Cemlyn-Jones in Madrid 24 February 1981 King Juan Carlos of Spain this morning ordered the armed forces to take all necessary measures to crush a revolt by 200 paramilitary civil guards, led by a lieutenant colonel, who had taken over the cabinet and lower house of parliament, holding hostage 350 deputies, in an attempt to overthrow the civilian government. At 1.15 am today the King, wearing the uniform of a captain general, went on television – which broadcast th...

In combat in afghanistan this year. right now the u.s. is in peace talks with the taliban to possibly end america's longest war. another fox news alert. former colorado governor john hooper is officially running for senate in 2020. >> i'm not done fighting for the people of colorado. we ought to be working together to move this country forward and stop the political nonsense. jillian: hickenlooper one of 12 candidates vying for core gartdner's seat. he dropped out of the race last week. and jay inslee is following suit. is he expected to announce today that he is seeking a third term as govern...