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...Looking Glass, in which the White Queen explains to Alice that believing in impossible things is simply a matter of practice, seems happy to agree. More likely to start an argument is the author's novel proposition that the imperative to link cause and effect derived directly from our earliest hominid ancestors' discovery of tools as many as 2 million years ago. The ability to fashion a flint spear, he speculates, promoted a kind of causal thinking that was beyond other species: take a certain type of stone, hit it in just such a way, and it will leave...
...global change. But a massive new Canadian research project, ArcticNet, may provide some early answers about the connections among warming, melting, ecosystem reorganization and human response. And the results may be the best indicator the world will get about what to expect elsewhere. The Arctic will show the earliest and most severe signs of global warming--with Canadian calculations predicting a rise in mean temperature of more than 4 degrees Celsius between the late 20th century and the mid-21st...
Earlier this year, James Hansen, NASA's chief climate scientist, made headlines when he accused the administration of muzzling him when he tried to speak out about global warming. Hansen, director of the space agency's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, was one of the earliest researchers to sound the climate change alarm. He alleges that White House appointees in NASA limited his access to the press and ordered him to remove web postingss that contradicted the President's positions. The White House took a PR bruising when the charges went public and Hansen's profile has since been higher...
...prominent orchestra Boston Baroque, which is the oldest period instrument group in North America. The group has sustained its mission to create “world class recordings and performances of baroque and classical repertoire on period instruments” for 35 years, a lineage stretching back to the earliest days of the movement.Around that time, the booming recording industry funded early experiments with period instruments, according to Professor of Music Robert D. Levin ’68. The period instruments make an enormous difference in the quality of the sound. Early music offers “extraordinary sounds, colors...
...good. ?We?ve introduced a bill requiring emergency room doctors to tell assault victims about emergency contraception-they?re not required to provide it, just to tell patients about it-and that bill has repeatedly failed in the South Dakota Legislature.? South Dakota was among the earliest states to allow pharmacists to refuse to dispense Plan B, the ?morning-after pill,? if doing so violated their conscience...