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...fruit flies could talk, that's probably how they would call bouts in the Fruit Fly Fight Club in Edward Kravitz's lab at Harvard University. Kravitz, a neurobiologist, has been pitting fruit flies against one another for decades and has painstakingly videotaped thousands of hours of fruit-fly fistfights (yes, they get up on their hind legs and brawl) in an effort to better understand aggression - not only in the insects but possibly in humans as well. (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
...Kravitz is hardly the only scientist so taken with the red-eyed bugs. While the antics of Drosophila melanogaster, as the fruit fly is known in scientific circles, may seem irrelevant at first blush, they are anything but. Remember, it was the fruit fly, which has been used in experiments of heredity for some 100 years and whose genome was fully decoded in 2000, that first educated us far more complex human beings about the way our genes work. In essence, it was on the tiny back of the fruit fly that scientists launched a genetic revolution. (See pictures...
...Lear Symphony,” followed the Weber. Written in two concise movements, the piece was meant to “suggest the emotional high points” of Shakespeare’s King Lear rather than narrate the story, according to Yannatos’s program notes. David Kravitz, in his powerful baritone voice, sang selections of the text over a tragic and unsettled orchestral sound...
...first movement depicted King Lear’s descent into madness, with waves of brass and timpani looming over twisting dissonances. Kravitz sang confidently, spanning large intervals with ease, and the orchestra maintained a sense of disturbed panic without drowning out the voice. The movement ended with an unexpected, troubled calm: the orchestral sound suddenly evaporated with a consonant but inconclusive chord of harmonics in the violins...
...continued growth and an increase in the quality of performing artists. Last year’s lineup, for example, included jazz legend Herbie Hancock, while tonight’s indoor performance will feature premier female drummers Terri Lyne Carrington and Cindy Blackman, who have played with Hancock and Lenny Kravitz respectively. Their appearance is part of an annual attempt at innovation. “It’s not often you see a jazz band led by drummers,” Balkin said. “We’ve never done anything quite like this...