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...year or two ago in the Radcliffe Yard honoring [food historian and author] Barbara Wheaton, and there was a lot of discussion about an academic food studies program. I got up and asked everyone, ‘If suddenly Melinda Gates came and offered lots of money for a chair in food studies or food history, would you really want it? Would it seem odd...to have a chair exclusively devoted to food?’ There was a great division in the room.”Sokolov compares the birth of food studies to the emergence of Women...
...season early at yesterday evening’s third annual Interfaith Holiday Celebration held by the Harvard Interfaith Council. “One of the goals of the Interfaith Council is to build friendship between different groups,” said Jessamin H. Birdsall ’10, the chair of the Interfaith Council. “This event is a great way for people to informally get together and to celebrate the holiday season together.” In addition to providing gingerbread cookies, shortcake, candy canes, and food associated with the traditions of each faith, the event educated...
Biochar's ability to sequester CO2 has given new urgency to such research. "Reducing emissions isn't enough - we have to draw down the carbon stock in the atmosphere," says Tim Flannery, chair of the Copenhagen Climate Council, a consortium of scientists and business leaders linked to next year's United Nations Climate Summit. "And for that, slow pyrolysis biochar is a superior solution to anything else that's been proposed." Cornell's Lehmann is even more emphatic. "If biochar could be massively applied around the globe," he says, "we could end the emissions problem in one to two years...
...about half done, but it's not scheduled for completion till 2014. Financing has slowed construction: at one time, Venice had to sell off some of its venerated palazzi to raise money. But, says Rafael Bras, dean of the engineering school at the University of California at Irvine and chair of the committee overseeing MOSES, another change in the global climate is helping. The worldwide financial crisis has prompted governments to throw vast amounts of money into public works to stimulate their economies. And so MOSES is finally getting its share. Who knew the Adriatic wanted that kind of bailout...
Despite the heavy focus on finance, the council found room to discuss proposals for language reform. Romance languages professor Virginie Greene, the co-chair of the ad-hoc committee advising Smith on foreign languages, gave a presentation before the council concerning foreign language requirements...