What caught my eye this month is "The Sisters" (below), a hypnotically luminous 1991-93 abstract work by Brice Marden, one of America's leading artists and the subject of a new book, "Brice Marden: Phaidon Focus" (Phaidon).

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This is self-explanatory, but here is another tweet that caught my eye on the same point: My basic premise is that the awareness of American college students is NOT a necessary condition for conflict resolution in Africa.

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So this is why a company called Extentech caught my eye.

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" Another box catches his eye: "Is this my ballistic comparison microscope?

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This one caught my eye however, as a new study is attempting to use Kinect to detect early signs of autism in children with its motion sensing capabilities.

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But being aware is one step and this calculator on the BP website has caught my eye.

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School success is always worth celebrating, of course, but this particular CNN story caught my eye for a different reason: the name of the school itself.

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This is why a study released Tuesday from the e-commerce intelligence firm Jirafe caught my eye.

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