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...Packed onto the “FedEx Lives” service, baby chickens will be sent across the nation to serve as egg layers and novelty pets this Easter. An online search revealed dozens of online vendors where I could purchase baby chicks for one to two dollars a bird, plus 25 cents postage and packaging...

Author: By Lewis E. Bollard | Title: Chicks in the Mail | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...sense of individualism. His arresting, haunting songs are often personal and inward-looking, though recently they seem more reactive to the outside world. Hegarty’s focus and sensibility has evolved from 2005’s grand and dramatic exercise in emotiveness, “I Am a Bird Now,” to inhabit a quieter, more introspective space. With the recently released “The Crying Light,” he focuses on the more fundamental, including his relation to the Earth and connections to his parents, touching on both of these relationships on the slow...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Economy Collapses, Artists Start Revolution | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...which is to say that any attempt to categorize the Argentine singer’s style is nearly impossible. A more effective approach to her performance at the Brattle Theatre yesterday would be to think of entering a parallel universe where randomness provides the only order to bird calls, electronic rhythms, and hauntingly dissonant harmonies. Don’t try to understand—the music resists interpretation and relies on enigma. Molina, whose lyrics are mostly in Spanish, subscribes to a philosophy of chance. She maintains that sometimes not understanding can be the most rewarding musical experience...

Author: By Jessica M. Righthand, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Molina Brings Eclectic Style to Brattle Theatre | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...Boston A New Way to Fight the Flu Researchers have developed an antibody-based therapy for the flu virus that may help combat seasonal illnesses as well as more dangerous strains like the infamous H5N1 bird flu. The antibodies attach to a part of the virus that is less mutation-prone than the section targeted by current vaccines (which must be redeveloped every year to counter the virus' changes). Tests on mice produced promising results, although clinical trials with humans won't occur for a few years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...study it. Most recently, psychologists Jesse Chandler and Norbert Schwarz came at it in a new way. In a study published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, they explored the effect that finger gestures have not on the people at whom they're aimed, but on the bird-flippers and thumbs-uppers themselves. (Learn how to use your emotions to get through the recession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Giving the Finger: This Hurts Me More Than You | 2/25/2009 | See Source »

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