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Yarumal, a municipality in the foothills of the Andes north of Medellín, is one of several communities in Colombia that host a large kindred with a genetic form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease
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![Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in costume as Lord and Lady MacBeth](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-02/macbeth_washington-mcdormand-hero.jpeg?itok=1yG8e3A3)
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Courtesy photo
Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in Joel Coen’s 2021 film, “The Tragedy of Macbeth”
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![A foothill yellow-legged frog perches on a rock.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-02/FYLF-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=jYzF_v04)
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Brome McCreary
Foothill yellow-legged frogs live in the flowing water of rivers and streams, so are especially vulnerable when these shrink to isolated pools.
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![James Hartle at the Sante Fe Institute in 2011.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-02/Jim-Hartle-light-Babak%20Dowlatshahi.jpg?itok=nSMGE6XY)
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Copyright: Babak Dowlatshahi
Jim Hartle provided a grounding, yet inspiring presence to his friends and colleagues.
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American Composers Alliance (screen grab)
The premiere of composer Earl Louis Stewart's "Homage to Swing" at UCLA's Herb Alpert School of Music's Schoenberg Auditorium, Feb. 5, 2017, as part of the "Swinging to a World of Strings" concert with Maestro Neal Stulberg conducting.
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Patrick Pyszka, city of Chicago
Hương Ngô & Hồng-Ân Trương, "chân trời foot of the sky," 2023. Archival pigment prints, two-way mirrored glass, neon. 240 x 92 x 30 in.
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Fritz Olenberger
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![six women facing the sea with their arms raised in heart hands](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-02/heart-hands-opt.jpg?itok=6-wUQZiu)
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Simona Pilolla