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...have a very disconnected way of thinking about food. In other countries I have visited, people think of food as something precious and meaningful in their lives. But we have been closed in by a very narrow experience of eating-- wanting everything the same all the time, whatever country...
...short for Web log. It was coined in 1997 to describe a website where you could post daily scribblings, journal-style, about whatever you like--mostly critiquing and linking to other articles online that may have sparked your thinking. Unlike a big media outlet, bloggers focus their efforts on narrow topics, often rising to become de facto watchdogs and self-proclaimed experts. Blogs can be about anything: politics, sex, baseball, haiku, car repair. There are blogs about blogs...
...Rumor has it that Berman wrote “Tanglewood” in a fit of inspiration after a protracted stay in rehab and a suicide attempt. The recurrence of heartache and depression as song themes suggests that there may be some truth to the gossip. But such a narrow focus risks missing the album’s genuinely hilarious moments, like Berman’s declaration: “Haven’t you heard the news? / Adam and Eve were Jews!” In “How Can I Love You? (If You Won?...
...place of a cave, Energetech's four-story-high floating power plant has an open-based, dome-roofed chamber with a narrow opening at the top. As the waves rise and fall inside the chamber, compressed air is forced in and out of the opening, past a turbine that drives a generator. The device, which has been dubbed an "oscillating water column," has been the basis of several plans for generating useful energy. But Denniss, a former lecturer in mathematics and oceanography, curved one wall of the chamber to amplify the wave, much as a car headlight's concave reflecting...
...those of us who have spent countless hours hunched over a computer in total darkness, walking through narrow underground halls accompanied only by an image of a machine gun in the bottom right corner of the screen, the announcement that the “Doom” videogame series had been converted into a movie was news indeed. For those who are a little rusty on their computer game history (or are not complete dorks), “Doom” popularized the “first-person shooter” style, in which you see through the eyes...