Mondays, amirite 
Spooky season is officially here. Get into the spirit by searching skeletal works in The Met collection: met.org/3zZko9l
Master IAM of Zwolle (Netherlandish, active ca. 1470–95). Memento Mori: a skeleton in a niche, late 15th century. Engraving.
Memento mori（拉丁語片語，意思為「勿忘你終有一死」[2]）是中世紀西方基督教對必死性之反思的理論及實踐，尤其是作為一種思索塵世之虛幻和一切物質與和世俗工作之短暫的方式。它經常和死亡藝術（拉丁語：ars moriendi）及類似文學相提並論。「Memento mori」成為了禁慾主義的一條重要戒律，藉此培養超脫和其他美德、將精力轉移到靈魂不死與死後的世界，來完善人格。[3]
在藝術中，「memento mori」是提醒人固有一死的藝術性和象徵性的話語。[2]在歐洲基督教語境中，「『Memento mori』這一表述隨著基督教的壯大而發展，它強調了天國、地獄，以及死後的靈魂救贖。」
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紐西蘭政府週一（10月4日）宣佈，面對具有挑戰性的德爾塔疫情，放棄其一直堅持的病毒清零策略。取而代之的是，該國將專注於提高疫苗接種率並學會與病毒共存。
紐西蘭總理阿德恩（Jacinda Ardern）對於這次重大政策轉變解釋說："隨著德爾塔變種疫情的爆發，清零是非常困難的。"
Prior to the discoveries of 2021 medicine laureates David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian, our understanding of how the nervous system senses and interprets our environment still contained a fundamental unsolved question: how are temperature and mechanical stimuli converted into electrical impulses in the nervous system?
In the 17th century, the philosopher René Descartes envisioned threads connecting different parts of the skin with the brain. In this way, a foot touching an open flame would send a mechanical signal to the brain (see picture). Discoveries later revealed the existence of specialised sensory neurons that register changes in our environment. Joseph Erlanger and Herbert Gasser received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1944 for their discovery of different types of sensory nerve fibers that react to distinct stimuli, for example, in the responses to painful and non-painful touch. Since then, it has been demonstrated that nerve cells are highly specialised for detecting and transducing differing types of stimuli, allowing a nuanced perception of our surroundings; for example, our capacity to feel differences in the texture of surfaces through our fingertips, or our ability to discern both pleasing warmth, and painful heat.
The seminal discoveries by this year’s Nobel Prize laureates have explained how heat, cold and touch can initiate signals in our nervous system.
Learn more about the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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BREAKING NEWS
The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian “for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.”
Our ability to sense heat, cold and touch is essential for survival and underpins our interaction with the world around us. In our daily lives we take these sensations for granted, but how are nerve impulses initiated so that temperature and pressure can be perceived? This question has been solved by this year’s Nobel Prize laureates.
David Julius utilised capsaicin, a pungent compound from chilli peppers that induces a burning sensation, to identify a sensor in the nerve endings of the skin that responds to heat. Ardem Patapoutian used pressure-sensitive cells to discover a novel class of sensors that respond to mechanical stimuli in the skin and internal organs. These breakthrough discoveries launched intense research activities leading to a rapid increase in our understanding of how our nervous system senses heat, cold, and mechanical stimuli.
The 2021 Nobel Prize laureates in physiology or medicine identified critical missing links in our understanding of the complex interplay between our senses and the environment.
10月4日
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Jean-François Millet was born Oct. 4, 1814 #onthisday. Millet’s paintings captured the lives of France’s peasant class—a subject much on the mind of Parisian society due to recent uprisings. The subject of "Waiting" is adapted from the biblical Book of Tobit, wherein the blind Tobit sends his son Tobias to a distant farm to collect a debt. Millet depicted the moment when Tobias’s mother looks anxiously up the road for his return, while Tobit cautiously steps out of their darkened cottage. Despite the religious subject, many considered Millet’s painting scandalous and shameful for its portrayal of biblical characters as contemporary French peasants.
Purchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust, 30-18
米勒（Jean-François Millet）
（西元1814.10.4—1875.1.20）
法國畫家。屬於自然主義的巴比松畫派。中年時為了維持生計必須下田耕作，因而得以描繪出純樸的田園風光，享譽世界畫壇。著名畫作包括《拾穗》、《晚禱》與《播種者》等。
如果想要感動別人，就必須先感動自己。假如不這麼做，無論是多麼精巧的作品，也絕對沒有生命。
藝術不是消憂解悶的遊戲。而是一場戰役、一具絞碎物體的齒輪機械。
美的重點在於呈現。若要畫出自己的母親，就該抓住母親凝視孩子的時刻，施展全力畫出最美麗、最純粹的那個瞬間。
節自 朱里亞．卡萊德《米勒藝術史》
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