What's the fascination?

And that has a fascination.

Humans have long held a fascination for the human brain.

The fabrication about the Armenian genocide is a product of morbid imagination and based on forged documents.

While that might be a somewhat morbid thought, I think it has some really profound implications that are worth exploring.

Since 1997, the groups Women and Children have been defined as vulnerable ones, mostly due to their high morbid mortality.

This fascination led me to submerge myself in art, study neuroscience and later to become a psychotherapist.

The German fascination with gold is a red herring. Its fear of wayward monetary policy is not.

Tretyakov is hardly alone. On the contrary, his morbid logic is a perfect reflection of the paranoid vision that has taken hold in the Kremlin.

It's a strange exuberance about materials, about the world a fascination that I think the world needs quite very much right now.

Some people watch this event because of a NASCAR like fascination with things bumping and grinding. Burning the parachute as it fell that was last weekend.

But my joyful period was marred by solemn and morbid thoughts thoughts of walking through the prison's high security death row, as this was the only route to take me to the makeshift operating room.

And you can look at these pictures over and over again because there's such a strange, bizarre fascination in seeing these things you don't normally get to see come alive.

Would politicians, with their perpetual fascination with independence, attempt to eliminate dependence one commodity at a time? Put another way, would the cause of energy independence seek to reverse globalization?

And for me, this sort of deep and enduring fascination with sound is what led me to both be a surgeon and also to study the science of sound, particularly music.

At EG'08, Adam Savage talks about his fascination with the dodo bird, and how it led him on a strange and surprising double quest. It's an entertaining adventure through the mind of a creative obsessive.

A thousand years ago, the Norse settlers of my home city of York ate cod that weighed as much as eight kilograms. We know this from archaeologists and the fascination they have for medieval waste heaps.

In the 2008 US presidential election, the press told us that Obama won because he had charisma the special power to inspire fascination and loyalty. If so, how can his re election be uncertain just four years later?

We promise something great, we evangelize it, we're going to change the world. It doesn't work out too well, and so we actually go back to the well and start all over again, as the people in New York and L.A. look on in absolute, morbid astonishment.

As you can see from the pictures, both Noam and I had an early fascination with first principles, and over the years, as our knowledge of science and technology became more sophisticated, this early awe with the basics has only intensified.

But they understood something more fundamental the sheer joy in discovery, the delight and fascination that we get from the world and being ourselves in it, the richness that we get from seeing, feeling and knowing the lives that we are.

Moreover, obesity certainly in its morbid manifestations can affect quality of life. The costs are borne not only by the individual, but also by society directly, through the health care system, and indirectly, through lost productivity, for example, and higher transport costs (more jet fuel, larger seats, etc.).

Now, keeping these ideas firmly in mind, we can say that the experience of beauty is one of the ways that evolution has of arousing and sustaining interest or fascination, even obsession, in order to encourage us toward making the most adaptive decisions for survival and reproduction.

But, beneath the surface, unease in the bilateral relationship persists, partly for historical reasons. Nationalist Chinese remember imperial Russia s conquests, while many Russians have a morbid fear of the yellow peril, even though the Mongols conquered and reigned in China, while they were eventually repelled from Russia (not to mention that the Chinese never invaded Russia).

But the reason I put this up here is because when I was in Africa last year, my wife and I were driving around, we had this wonderful guide, who showed us something that surprised both of us, and it was very revealing in terms of the fascination that comes with the design of animals.

Sharon s transformation from villain to hero within the space of a mere few years is a source of fascination for his people, the region, and the world all the more so because his ultimate intentions will remain a subject of endless dispute among historians tomorrow and among politicians claiming to be his faithful heirs today.

This time, however, it is modernity, not exoticism, that is the source of fascination. But, because of its secular tradition (now being challenged by the current regime), its non Arab identity, its behavior towards its Kurdish minority, and the ambivalence of the Ottoman legacy, Turkey is as much a counter model as a model.

The dark skies over the northern Russian coast in Leviathan look ravishing, and Jia even manages to make the concrete and glass jungle of Shenzhen, the monster city between Guangzhou and Hong Kong, look gorgeous. The other thing both films share is a fascination with mythical stories, the Book of Job in Leviathan, and martial arts fiction in A Touch of Sin.

The majority though, in one way or another, had some contact with communism, through intellectual fascination, participation in state institutions, or the cold conviction that only by accepting the reality of life under communism could one do something useful for one s country. These people, tainted by communism, constituted the majority of the participants in all revolts against the communist dictatorships.

One problem with economics is that it is necessarily focused on policy, rather than discovery of fundamentals. Nobody really cares much about economic data except as a guide to policy economic phenomena do not have the same intrinsic fascination for us as the internal resonances of the atom or the functioning of the vesicles and other organelles of a living cell.

Indeed, France has a very large immigrant population that originated in the Maghreb, and for which the Arab spring is vitally important and a source of fascination and pride. And today, with France taking the lead in an international effort to protect the Libyan people from their leader, they can feel simultaneously proud of being French and of their Arab roots.