Picasso looked up the circular column to the lights of the bank lobby above, as if doing calculations in his head.
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Christopher C. Gorham
September 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Sep. 2025
This development represents a major step toward a scalable, circular, and environmentally responsible rare earth economy, potentially transforming how critical materials are recovered worldwide.
Some target the hair follicles or scalp specifically—like alopecia areata and discoid lupus erythematosus—while others (such as thyroid disease) affect another part of the body and can cause hair loss as one of many symptoms, Dr. Lo Sicco explains.
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Krissy Brady,
SELF,
5 Mar. 2024
Opah are discoid fish, meaning they are shaped like large discs.
Those lucky/sitting ducks were at the center of a manifold creative pressure, like the core of a planet pulled spherical by gravity.
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Kate Colby
October 2,
Literary Hub,
2 Oct. 2025
The prototypes were spherical wire frames containing sails; in the wind tunnel, they were put through their paces on different surfaces, including rough and smooth terrain, sand, pebbles and boulder fields.
Open star clusters are much less dense than their globular counterparts and a pair of binoculars with a lower magnification allows for a more comprehensive view.
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Harry Bennett,
Space.com,
30 Sep. 2025
The globular segments of the abstract piece, Complexing, could be a kind of smudging, a devolving, of the pregnant and engorged curvilinear silhouette of an earlier figurative sculpture, Monument.
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