'The cult of Saint Sebastian': How a brutally tortured 3rd-Century saint became a gay icon

A Roman soldier who was killed for his Christian beliefs, Saint Sebastian has been a hero for gay men over the centuries – ...
Seattle Times

Visual Arts

Frank Feltens of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art will join Seattle Art Museum as its new head curator, SAM leadership announced Thursday morning. Frank Feltens of the Smithsonian's ...
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What Is Adverse Selection in Health Insurance?

Adverse selection occurs in health insurance when there is an imbalance of high-risk, sick people to healthy people. The imbalance can happen due to sick people, who require more insurance, using more ...
Nature

Reflections on the clonal-selection theory

What was revolutionary about the clonal-selection theory as a solution to the specificity-of-antibody problem? N. Av Mitchison. Biology in the 1950s was coming to terms with 'DNA and all that'. We saw ...