Avant-Garde Women: Review of the novel “Branded” by founding Dadaist Emmy Hennings

Contents IntroductionThe Key to DadaHennings on LanguageHennings and ExpressionismHennings as a Burroughsian BeatTechnology in BrandedFashion/Style Notes from 1908-1910The Branded Playlist Introduction Just last year I pointedly wondered why the books of founding Dadaist Emmy Hennings remain untranslated into English after more than 100 years. I threatened to translate them myself even though I don’t know …

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Fact Sheet: FinTech, Crypto, the Banking Industry and Regulation

Download the fact sheet here. By Dennis Kelleher, Co-Founder, President and CEOPhillip Basil, Director of Banking Policy Introduction The recent rapid and spectacular collapse of the crypto company FTX has clearly shown—again—the fiction and lawlessness of the crypto industry, as did other dramatic crypto-related events this year, including: losses of $2+ trillion, the disintegration of …

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Novel 3D Flipwell system that models gut mucosal microenvironment for studying interactions between gut microbiota, epithelia and immunity

Cell lines Caco-2 human colon epithelial cells were obtained from American Tissue Culture Collection (ATCC, CAT#: HTB-37, Manassas, VA). THP-1 human monocytic cells were obtained from ATCC (CAT#: TIB-202). HT29-MTX-E12 cells, mucous-secreting human intestinal cells, were obtained from Millipore Sigma (CAT#: 12040401, Burlington, MA). Bacillus subtilis (3A1T (wild-type)) strain was obtained from Bacillus Genetic Stock …

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Machine learning and metabolic modelling assisted implementation of a novel process analytical technology in cell and gene therapy manufacturing

Cell culture A serum-free, suspension-adapted, HEK293T-based LVV PCL, used to produce recombinant, VSV-G pseudotyped, HIV-1-GFP based LVVs, was generated previously from an adherent HEK293T cell line, provided by Oxford Biomedica; all LVV encoding genetic elements were stably integrated into the host-cell genome. The PCL was cultured in FreeStyle 293 Expression Medium (Gibco, Thermo Fisher Scientific, …

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What can the Bildungsroman tell us about the Israel and Palestine conflict?

This article by Dr Ned Curthoys, School of Humanities, Discipline of English and Literary Studies at The University of Western Australia, and Dr Isabelle Hesse, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences from The University of Sydney originally appeared in The Conversation on January 16.  The reactions to Australia’s decision to reverse the Morrison government’s recognition of West Jerusalem as …

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INTERVIEW: Karoline Kamel deconstructs all stereotypes – Reviews – Books

  With a cover that resembles the box of a famous Cairo cupcake chain, Karoline Kamel offers a complex text that is nothing like the predictable simplicity of a cupcake. Kamel offers an intimate account which is not necessarily autobiographic but is certainly revealing of the big and small questions that Kamel shares with other …

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A Genre-Bending Thriller that Examines Mental Illness and Neurodivergence

Author Maria Dong tells me that she once pitched a fantasy novel to her agent that she describes as “a pseudo-Victorian, extra gay, old magical opera, but also suffrage.” It is an offhand remark from our conversation that I have returned to often while thinking about how to describe Dong’s debut novel, Liar, Dreamer, Thief, …

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