Word: ambiente
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...history you travel. As ice formed in Greenland, year after cold year, bits of atmosphere were trapped in the layers. Drilling into the ice and fishing out samples--ice cores--that contain tiny bubbles of that ancient air can reveal the temperature, the concentration of greenhouse gases, even the ambient dust from the year that layer was formed. It's like tree rings but for climatic history. "In order to predict the future, we have to understand the past," says Minik Rosing, a geologist at the University of Copenhagen...
...sort of a green petri dish," says Potts Dawson of his latest venture. "We're learning every step of the way." They use the ambient temperature of the canal water, via a high-tech pump, to heat and cool the Water House. Roof-mounted solar panels provide the hot water, a wormery reduces food waste, and the restaurant filters its own "premium" bottled water on site. The menu, of course, is seasonal, all-organic and sourced as locally as possible; dishes include ravioli of sustainable salt cod with truffle oil, and roast rabbit with saffron couscous and honey...
...like flying in an airplane - we used noise we'd recorded while flying on a Boeing 757 commercial flight, and we simulated that environment in our lab - 80% of people listened at levels that would eventually put their hearing at risk. On the subway system here in Boston, the ambient noise levels are very comparable to the level on an airplane, although it sounds very different. The noise is sufficiently high that it induces people to listen to their headphones at excessively loud volume...
...amazing how unselfconscious you get when you have to find one lousy bar of wi-fi in the next two minutes or you're going to get fired. (A website called ThinkGeek.com sells a T shirt with a battery-powered wi-fi detector that displays the ambient signal strength wherever you happen to be standing. It's supercool, though if I'm too cheap to pay for broadband, I'm definitely too cheap to spend $30 on a T shirt...
...earned. The goal on Viva la Vida, he's said, was to "get better rather than bigger"--which explains the choice of Brian Eno as co-producer. Eno, 60, was a founding member of Roxy Music but gained his greatest fame as the composer of such endearingly odd ambient albums as Music for Airports and as the producer behind U2's sonic leap on its fourth album, The Unforgettable Fire. He's a mystical figure in rock circles for, among other things, using hypnosis to help bands reach creative nirvana. Even his name sounds like a hallucinogen...