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Spotted in Chiado, a genre I was not familiar with: the protest azulejo.

'The long-term persistence of a virus depends on the continual availability of newly susceptible individuals through either birth or the loss of immunity that was originally conferred through prior infection or vaccination. Loss of immunity can result from limited host immune memory or from alterations to the viral genome, often referred to as immune or vaccine ‘escape’ mutations. Thadani and colleagues’ focus is on viral mutations that destabilize the binding of ‘neutralizing’ antibodies to the virus (Fig. 1); however, other modes of immune evasion are possible'

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

‘Wales, though. It’s not a huge place.’
‘It’s exactly the size it is, isn’t it?’ Shirely said. ‘Reports are always saying something’s “an area the size of Wales”. And that’s exactly the size Wales is.’
This was met with a short silence.
- Joe Country, Mick Herron.

"Miniature etchings

This series of etchings are inspired by the works of Hercules Seghers, Rembrandt and Bruegel the Younger. Some are also loosely inspired by Dutch landscape paintings from the 17th century. The prints are very small, some are roughly the size of a stamp, and are at times watercoloured."

madalenaparreira.com/miniature

I agree, Metz - but I think we're going to need a bigger sticker.

'An aerial view shows a man riding a motorcycle in an empty section of Tefe Lake, which was affected by the drought of the Solimoes river, during a monitoring flight of Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation, near Tefe, Amazonas state, Brazil, on October 4, 2023.'

Bruno Kelly/Reuters

theatlantic.com/photo/2023/10/

Gene therapy targeting regulatory elements to promote fetal hemoglobin expression in sickle cell disease.
My latest Clinical Pipeline column at Nature Medicine

nature.com/articles/d41591-023

"Data visualizations tell stories. Relatively subtle choices, such as the range of the axes in a bar chart or line graph, can have a big impact on the story that a figure tells. Ask yourself whether a graph has been designed to tell a story that accurately reflects the underlying data, or whether it has been designed to tell a story more closely aligned with what the designer would like you to believe."
(Calling Bullshit, by Carl Bergstrom & Jevin West).

"Until the age of seventy, nothing I drew was worthy of notice. At seventy-three years, I was somewhat able to fathom the growth of plants and trees, and the structure of birds, animals, insects and fish."

—Katsushika Hokusai, One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji, 1834

publicdomainreview.org/collect

"For an enslaved person, running away carried enormous risk—most fugitives were caught and returned or died in the process. Running away with a child made a successful journey to freedom all the more improbable. Running away with four children would have seemed like a suicide mission. But Henson was determined."
(Illustration by Matt Williams)

theatlantic.com/magazine/archi

“Portrait of a Man in a Slouch Hat” (c1660) has no such grandeur; nevertheless the anonymous character, whose mischievous eyes and smile shine from under the curved sweep of a colossal floppy hat, mesmerises. Painted very broadly, white collar, cuff, strands of gold hair abbreviated in a few dashing strokes, the picture looks like a Manet.'

ft.com/content/d51f6dc5-fe6b-4

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