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...the hills of Kyoto, Japan's ancient capital, and it's not hard to see why the city seems like the perfect birthplace for the global-warming pact that was named for it. At the end of my trip last November, I toured the grounds of Nanzenji, a Buddhist complex that sprawls through the wooded slopes to the east of the city, and watched red and gold leaves fall upon a rock garden, where they were swept up by monks. Kyoto's temples show how humans can live in nature and actually add to it, not just take from...
...natural history required to understand consciousness is now readily available in evolutionary biology and psychology. Gene networks organize themselves to produce complex organisms whose brains permit behavior; further evolution enriches the complexity of those brains so that they can create sensory and motor maps that represent the environments they interact with; additional evolutionary complexity allows parts of the brain to talk to each other (figuratively speaking) and generate maps of the organism interacting with its environment. Within the frame of those interactions, the conversation among the maps spontaneously and continuously tells the "story" of our organism responding to and being...
Filing away loose office papers can be similarly counterproductive. There's a reason people tend to stack stuff on their desks: such intuitive organization can be effective. Not only are things often hard to find once secluded in a complex filing system, but they're also out of sight and therefore out of mind. Those with messy desks often stumble upon serendipitous connections between disparate documents. Don't believe there's a benefit? According to Abrahamson and Freedman, desk-paper mess helped Nobel-prizewinning scientist Earl Sutherland discover how hormones regulate cells...
Which brings us back to the Olympic Sculpture Park. With its clever switchback paths, the Weiss/Manfredi design capitalizes on the park's magnificent views by constantly bringing you back around to them in different ways. All the while it draws those views into a complex fabric of references to the city. So by narrowing and widening the routes, for instance, the designers create false perspectives that recall airport landing paths, an illusion they've underlined along one stretch with a string of low-rise "runway" lights. This is a park that doesn't try to separate nature and civilization. What...
...world of wine is complex and global in scope. That makes it a perfect match for the Internet, which excels at reaching across geographic boundaries and making obscure information accessible. Today websites for wine lovers are popping up faster than you can say Gewürztraminer. The big ones like eRobertParker.com the online home of the industry's most powerful wine critic, and WineSpectator.com the Web sibling of the magazine, offer an abundance of reviews, ratings and other features. But there are plenty of less famous wine sites that are also worth savoring...