Facts & Figures 2013 Explore Research » Cancer Facts & Figures » Cancer Facts & Figures » Cancer Facts & Figures 2013 Share this Page Close Push escape to close share window. Share on emailShare on facebookShare on google_plusone_shareShare on twitterMore Sharing Services Print Share Save Start of content Your Local Offices Cancer Facts & Figures 2013 This annual report provides the estimated numbers of new cancer cases and deaths in 2013 as well as current cancer incidence, mortality, and survival statistics and information on cancer symptoms, risk factors, early detection, and treatment. DOWNLOAD Cancer Facts & Figures 2013 [PDF version, 1,250 KB] Additional resources: Explore Research Can You Hate the Artist but Love the Art? - NYTimes.com mptvimages.comMarlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint in “On the Waterfront.” The Issue Last Wednesday Budd Schulberg died at 95. He was a journalist (particularly astute about boxing), a novelist (‘‘What Makes Sammy Run’’) and above all a screenwriter: ‘‘On the Waterfront’’ is a glorious accomplishment. He was also a man who named names to the House Un-American Activities Committee. The Argument The work stands alone. And yet. The contracts of big-time actors and athletes often include a morals clause, less an expression of principled concern for the virtue of the performer than economic concern for the psychology of the audience: many fans won’t pay to see a miscreant perform. Call it the Woody Allen Quandary. Allen has appeared in many of his movies, often as a character apparently based on himself, making it even harder to disassociate the artist and the art. Unless you were eager to date Woody Allen or pal around with Budd Schulberg, why would you care what they were like as people?
The Bojon Gourmet: Chocolate Rosemary Pots De Creme Perhaps I have an insensitive palette, but a pet peeve of mine is when an ice cream or chocolaty confection promises an intriguing flavor, then merely tastes like plain ice cream or chocolate. Not that there's anything wrong with plain ice cream or chocolate, but if balsamic vinegar is billed as a flavor, for example, then I want to taste balsamic vinegar, goshdarnit; otherwise, what is the point of putting it in at all? I once worked at a renowned SF restaurant for as long as I could put up with being treated like crap; i.e, not very long. I could write a novel about all the jacked-up things that went on at said business (and in fact, have begun to do so) but for now I will merely tell you about the front-of-house manager, who, for the purpose of today's post, I will call Sabrina. Sabrina had a shrill voice. The truffles that I had tasted thus far all boasted intriguing flavors - pink peppercorn, honey-balsamic, rosewater - but to me, they all tasted merely like chocolate.
The Empathic Civilization | Jeremy Rifkin JTED: About Eco-Machines An Eco-Machine™, can be a tank based system traditionally housed within a greenhouse or a combination of exterior constructed wetlands with Aquatic Cells inside of a greenhouse . The system often includes an anaerobic pre-treatment component, flow equalization, aerobic tanks as the primary treatment approach followed by a final polishing step, either utilizing Ecological Fluidized Beds or a small constructed wetland. The size requirements are entirely dependent on the waste flow, usually determined during our preliminary engineering phase and site visit. The Eco-Machine™ is a beautiful water garden that can be designed to provide advanced treatment. A robust ecosystem is created in the Eco-Machine between the plants, microbial species and distinct treatment zones. The Eco-Machine can be designed to function, and resemble, a baffled “river” through the creation of eddies, countercurrents, and contact zones in which a diversity of life will arise. click to enlarge
‘Forrest Bess’ Gets Personal at the Neuberger Museum Photo PURCHASE, N.Y. — The small but potent paintings of Forrest Bess respond to the art world’s “either-ors” with a resounding “and.” Without resorting to big stretches of canvas or brash gestures, they merge inner and outer worlds, abstraction and representation, and ideas of masculinity and femininity. To a market still intent on labeling “insiders” and “outsiders,” they offer the conundrum of an artist who showed at the Betty Parsons Gallery in New York in the 1950s, alongside Rothko and Pollock, but made his living as a bait fisherman in Bay City, Tex. “Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible,” at the Neuberger Museum of Art here, embraces his life and work in its sometimes messy totality. Building on a small exhibition of Bess’s paintings and writings that was folded into the 2012 Whitney Biennial, it does not shy away from either the complexities of his art or the painful details of his biography. He saw this process as a quest for enlightenment, even immortality.
201 Ways to Arouse Your Creativity Arouse your creativity Electric flesh-arrows … traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. Creativity is like sex. I know, I know. The people I speak of are writers. Below, I’ve exposed some of their secret tips, methods, and techniques. Now, lie back, relax and take pleasure in these 201 provocative ways to arouse your creativity. Great hacks from Merlin Mann of 43 Folders
Morality in Monkeys: A fascinating and funny TED Talk | harrykeydotcomslashblogs by April 16, 2012 in Speech, TED talks by Any frequent reader will be well aware of my obsession with TED. I am consistently amazed that they can find people who can speak so eloquently and humorously about such nerdy topics. I also love the cranky monkey!! Frans de Waal: Moral behavior in animals No Comments »
How to Plant and Grow Garlic If you love garlic, consider planting some this fall. It’s easy to grow, just follow these steps. GardeningGarlicGIYPlanting Ideas Related Posts « Attention Nature Lovers, You’ve Got To See This Video! Marijuana and HIV; What Big Pharma Doesn’t Want You to Know » Does Great Literature Make Us Better People? The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless. You agree with me, I expect, that exposure to challenging works of literary fiction is good for us. That’s one reason we deplore the dumbing-down of the school curriculum and the rise of the Internet and its hyperlink culture. Perhaps we don’t all read very much that we would count as great literature, but we’re apt to feel guilty about not doing so, seeing it as one of the ways we fall short of excellence. Wouldn’t reading about Anna Karenina, the good folk of Middlemarch and Marcel and his friends expand our imaginations and refine our moral and social sensibilities? If someone now asks you for evidence for this view, I expect you will have one or both of the following reactions. What sort of evidence could we present? There is scant evidence that reading great literature morally improves us. I hope no one is going to push this line very hard. Tucker Nichols
actualsanity How visualising data has changed life… and saved lives Big data, infographics, visualisations – the pop words of a modern phenomenon. But while information accumulation has become a 21st-century obsession, our generation is not the first to discover that a picture is worth a thousand words, as a new British Library exhibition will reveal. Revelling in the power of illustrations, tables and figures, Beautiful Science charts the course of data dissemination across the centuries, from the grim ledgers of death recorded by John Graunt in the 17th-century "bills of mortality" to the digital evolutionary tree dreamt up by an Imperial College researcher, complete with a mind-boggling zoomable function. But diagrams can also be agents of change. And other vivid illustrations are also on show. From scientists to consumers, there's no escaping the onward march of big data. Beautiful Science: Picturing Data, Inspiring Insight, runs from 20 February to 26 May at the British Library
Why Conflict Makes For Better Design | Co.Design | business + innovation + design “The most important ability that a designer can bring to his work," Victor Papanek wrote in his seminal book, Design for the Real World, "is the ability to recognize, isolate, define, and solve problems." The seventh edition of the Design Triennial, happening now in Flanders, takes a cue from Papanek and features the work of designers-as-problem solvers with the exhibition “Conflict and Design." It includes over 60 design concepts, projects, and processes that investigate how good design can make the world a better place. The work is “not innovation for the sake of innovation," according to curator Kurt Vanbelleghem, "but rather design with a clear social-societal objective: creating a better living, social, and working climate.” “The objective was to use a design intervention to promote simple but meaningful encounters with people who live close to each other,” designer Anna van Oppen said in her artist statement.
Is this the Jurassic Park of the art world or a protected gene-pool for the future? Analysis United Kingdom Traditional figurative art still rules in many Eastern European art academies, but talent still shines through By Simon Hewitt. Focus, Issue 254, February 2014Published online: 12 February 2014 The great hall of the St Petersburg Repin art academy Nothing ever surprises me in Russia. The St Petersburg academy, founded in 1757, occupies a grandiose, appealingly musty Neo-Classical palace by the Neva River. The academy’s ebullient rector, Semyon Mikhailovsky, seldom without a cigarette in his mouth or a witticism up his sleeve, believes “we are required to pass down the skills our ancestors taught us” as “today’s generation is too concerned with concepts and means of expression”. As a former consultant to the Solomon R. Mikhailovsky was elected rector of the academy he calls “my home” in 2010. Not everyone in St Petersburg shares Mikhailovsky’s enthusiasm. The Repin’s sister establishment in Moscow was only founded in 1939, and given its current name in 1948. Email*