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The turn-of-the-century molds in his studio — which use botanic motifs, blossoming forms with metallic winged and floral attachments — look like desk toppers fit for an early 1900s eccentric obsessed with Darwinism and industrialization.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

Whether sinful passions or unconscious destructive urges, distracting attachments or visceral impulses, desire is the daemon that makes us act, often against our own interests and those of others.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Over time, as people are uprooted from their agricultural communities as industrialisation tears apart people's familiar attachments, individuals become "alienated", he says.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

"What we show is that CENP-E doesn't contribute significantly to the movement itself. Its crucial role is stabilizing end-on attachments at the start. That is what allows the system to proceed correctly."

From Science Daily • Dec. 10, 2025

Powell had adjusted the binocular attachments, so that he seemed as eye-stalked as a snail.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov