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...study took advantage of the university's unique Biosphere 2 research facility. The 7.2 million-cubic-foot dome - famous for an experiment in the early 1990s when eight people lived inside it for two years - allows scientists to recreate almost any climate on Earth. Adams and his collaborators kept two groups of piñon trees inside Biosphere 2 in nearly identical conditions. One key difference: for the experimental group, researchers ramped up the temperature 7° Fahrenheit (4° Celsius), the rough midpoint of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's business-as-usual predictions for warming in this...
...these are words repeatedly applied to Zumthor's work, and no wonder. You sense that he might prefer his buildings to be judged by the same standards by which we "judge" mountains and trees - for their fundamental power and durability, for the ways they seem to spring from the earth. In his pronouncements on architecture there's that note of aesthetic militancy you also heard in Le Corbusier. "In a society that celebrates the inessential,"Zumthor once wrote, "architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language...
FlyBy doesn’t know why on earth Trott would give up Jesus, but we’ll admire his benevolence just the same...
...always social, a structure that man is forever bound up within. To read you have to enter a world of intersubjectivity, where your understanding and the novelist’s mix and meld. Even when you make your way through a literary land as fantastically removed as Middle Earth or Tlön, you’re still walking in the middle of social discourse. So, Ms. Miller, I don’t know how you can really read solitarily, but you can try if you like.— Sanders Bernstein —This column was a response...
...With the growth in membership this year, the polo team has forged a strong sense of community. “A vast majority of the people are very down-to earth people who like horses,” Nick says. “They’re definitely kids, you know, I’ve got an opportunity to know and hang out with that I probably never would have...