Frida Kahlo Self Portrait with Monkeys painting

Frida Kahlo Self Portrait with Monkeys paintingFrida Kahlo Self Portrait with Cropped Hair paintingFrida Kahlo Self Portrait 1940 painting
Jahilia has been built in a series of rough circles, its houses spreading outwards from the House of the Black Stone, approximately in rank. Abu Simbel's palace is in the first circle, the innermost ring; he makes his way down one of the rambling, windy radial roads, past the city's many seers who, in return for pilgrim money, are chirping, cooing, hissing, possessed variously by djinnis of birds, beasts, snakes. A sorceress, failing for a moment to look up, squats in his path: "Want to capture a girlic's heart, my dear? Want an enemy under your thumb? Try me out; try my little knots!" And raises, dangles a knotty rope, ensnarer of human lives -- but, seeing now to whom she speaks, lets fall her disappointed arm and slinks away, mumbling, into sand.
Everywhere, noise and elbows. Poets stand on boxes and declaim while pilgrims throw coins at their feet. Some bards speak rajaz verses, their four--syllable metre suggested, according to legend, by the walking pace of the camel; others speak the qasidah, poems of wayward mistresses, desert adventure, the hunting of the onager. In a day or so it will be time

Frida Kahlo Self Portrait with Monkeys painting

Frida Kahlo Self Portrait with Monkeys painting

Frida Kahlo Self Portrait with Cropped Hair painting

Gravity waves are distortions in the fabric of space-time predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. The waves travel at the speed of light, but they are so weak that scientists expect to detect only those created during colossal cosmic events, such as black hole mergers like the one shown above. LIGO and LISA are two detectors designed to spot the elusive waves.Like l on Earth, galaxies can "eat" each other and evolve over time. The Milky Way's neighbor, Andromeda, is currently dining on one of its satellites. More than a dozen star clusters are scattered throughout Andromeda, the cosmic remains of past meals. The image above is from a simulation of Andromeda and our galaxy colliding, an event that will take place in about 3 billion years.

Frida Kahlo Self Portrait 1940 painting

Neutrinos are electrically neutral, virtually mass-less elementary particles that can pass through miles of lead unhindered. Some are passing through your body as you read this. These "phantom" particles are produced in the inner fires of burning, healthy stars as well as in the supernova explosions of dying stars. Detectors are being embedded underground, beneath the sea, or into a large chunk of ice as part of IceCube, a neutrino-detecting project.