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...takes place and makes sense, spreading the search far and wide for inspiration and not staying confined to the literal world of play,” she says. Laubacher’s latest endeavor was designing the set of “The Space Between,” a complex and multilayered show that demands an equally multi-textured stage, complete with two moving trees and a raised platform on which videos are projected. “The trees function as the origin of human knowledge, like in the story of Eden,” she says...
Computerizing Everything It's a complex topic that boils down to this: If we who do the medicine thought more computers would save us money, we'd buy them ourselves. In fact, sometimes we do. But the federal mandate to computerize and centrally connect the entire country's medical records has little chance of saving money for anyone except the lucky insiders who sell the computers, software and support. Aside from their costs to us, electronic records are time-consuming - a constant distraction from patient care. They also put doctors on a slippery ethical slope; it's pretty easy...
...fact that kangaroos run free helps keep their meat cheap. Because there's no need for complex infrastructure, feed or veterinary care, it costs 20-30% less than beef. Kangaroos also do less damage to Australian soil than millions of hard-hoofed cows and sheep. And unlike ruminants, which produce gases that contribute 11% of Australia's greenhouse-gas emissions, kangaroos are naturally low greenhouse-gas emitters. The industry got a boost last fall when Ross Garnaut, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's top climate-change adviser, issued a global-warming report urging Australians to chuck their beef and lamb...
...vital. Capital cities are best kept small (making rioting less likely). For the most part, though, he tosses evidence on the table, then walks away. Debunking the supposed link between the Protestant work ethic and the rise of modern capitalism, Beattie notes that "the reality is much more complex"--that any sort of society can choose economic success. He just never says exactly...
...With an evocative, surreal set by Grace C. Laubacher ’09 and an incredibly complex program of sounds by Josh R. Stein ’09, the show flows and breathes like nothing else I’ve seen at Harvard. It’s sort of a technical miracle, actually. I was told the cast rehearsed six hours a day to make this kind of seamlessness possible. Who knows if that’s fact or exaggeration? It was worth the effort, in any case...