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...love to see other music videos given the same treatment. Nine Inch Nails' Closer: "Decapitated pig head spinning on a metal spike/Weird small monkey crucified." Fatboy Slim's Weapon of Choice: "Christopher Walken flies in a suit/He's cool, and creepy too." The White Stripes' Fell in Love with a Girl: "Legos up and they're down/Red and white, it's a strict color scheme...
While the impact of climate change on human populations is likely to be dire, we're pretty good at adapting to change overall. Animals, however, are not. When their habitats change irrevocably - when the rain forest dries up or cool mountains in tropical zones heat up - animals may simply go extinct. A recent study in Science demonstrates how that can happen. Robert Colwell, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Connecticut, analyzed data from nearly 2,000 species of plants, insects and fungi in the tropics, where organisms often lack the ability to escape warming temperatures by going north...
...When was the last time you said a word like “Wow!” out loud and in total astonishment? Children live in a sense of wonder all the time, but as we grow older we learn saying loud wow’s is not a cool thing to do—it’s childish, etc. Part of the delight of books or movies, music and painting is on first encountering something terrific to our sensibilities, the wow returns. I think people like my books because they work towards reawakening that sense of unbridled wonder...
...Saturday night with gay singer and novelist Stewart Lewis. Relating his own experiences of being told to “play straight” in meetings, Lewis entertained about 20 students with his songs and anecdotes. “Does anyone have trouble coming out? Or are we all cool?” Lewis asked the audience in between songs. “Everyone has trouble.” —Staff writer Rachel A. Stark can be reached at rstark@fas.harvard.edu
...interviews he has said the attention generated by such an award would help sustain the work of his nongovernmental organization, the Crisis Management Initiative. The career of this northern diplomat has not always produced the hoped-for outcome or held the spotlight. But it demonstrates the value of a cool and steady hand in turbulent times...