Its eponymous flowers are deep red-orange and the foliage is composed of whorls of needle-like, silvery-blue leaves.
—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
7 June 2025
In 2024, the Ig Nobel Prize in anatomy went to an international team of scientists for their discovery that scalp hair whorls are more likely to spiral in a counter-clockwise direction in the Southern Hemisphere compared with the Northern Hemisphere.
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Scott Lafee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 June 2025
Massive columns, slender spires and impossibly balanced boulders loom above the timber.
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Roger Naylor,
AZCentral.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Taipei blends incense with cutting-edge innovation—crowned by the soaring spire of Taipei 101 and grounded in night markets where stinky tofu and bubble tea perfume the air.
There was no one else on the strand, the surf a sickly yellow foam bubbling between the matted black hanks of seaweed heaped on the beach.
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Matthew Gavin Frank,
Harper's Magazine,
21 Apr. 2022
In one of its spreads, a burst of light on muddy asphalt abuts a jumble of walls and fences, rain pounding a limousine, and a spatter of paint with a hank of rope.
—
Leo Rubinfien,
The New York Review of Books,
11 Feb. 2021
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