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...come there were massive glaciers in Antarctica at the time? Paleo-climate experts have seen hints of this oddity before, but the new Science paper nails it down much more firmly. Andre Bornemann, of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, along with several colleagues, got their information by analyzing the amount of the isotope oxygen-18 in foraminifera, tiny, shelled sea dwellers that thrived at the time. It turns out that when water evaporates from the sea but doesn't return (implying that it's trapped up on land somewhere, frozen), the ratio of oxygen-18 to oxygen-16 in seawater...
Less than Ecstatic. Delighted though they were that their City Opera had suitable quarters for the first time since the end of the war, West Berliners were less than ecstatic about Architect Fritz Bornemann's barren modern design. The opera's enormous, slablike stone fagade, 660 ft. long and 126 ft. high, was quickly dubbed the "Wailing Wall...
Elegant Form. It was Ole's life and character which inspired Ibsen with the lurid idea of Peer Gynt. Born in 1810, brought up by prosperous parents in the little provincial fishing town of Bergen, Ole Bornemann Bull flatly refused to obey his childhood violin teachers. At 23 he was playing quartets in many prominent European salons, carousing and dueling on the side. In Paris he met 14-year-old Félicie Alexandrine Villeminot, daughter of a French official. After four years he married her. Then he spent years trying to convince her that she should live permanently...
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