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...James E. Hansen, that carbon dioxide levels should be limited to 350 parts per million (ppm) in order to ensure a climate agreeable to civilization. That calls for a sizable reduction from the current level, which is 385 parts ppm.Titled simply “350,” the project aims to influence policy-makers at an international climate conference in Copenhagen next December to adopt that standard as the global benchmark.“Our plan for this year is to communicate this number everywhere around the world,” McKibben said Wednesday. “We picked...
...question I’m asking myself.”Denis is currently in production for her new film, “White Material,” shot in Cameroon and starring legendary French actress Isabelle Huppert. Despite the prestige that Huppert’s name lends to the project, Denis refuses to see her career as a progression. “I never imagined there would be a progression. I imagined there would be a regression. Progression—this is not an idea that is active in me,” she said. But in her characteristic reconstructive...
...creators of this exhibit, Rebecca Baron and Doug Goodwin, named their project “Lossless,” referring to the compression or duplication of electronic data with no reduction of quality. “Lossless” is both a display of art in the age of new media and a commentary on the digital media it employs...
...Warble was originally conceived of as a printed arts publication rather than a digital project, but the group it decided to try and accommodate the many different forms of media they found people wanted to share. Wright believes The Warble has found a good balance between modernity and traditional artistic style. “To some extent, so much is thrown at you at once on the Internet, and in a way that’s awesome and allows you to see so much different stuff, but it can be overwhelming at times,” he says...
...research while stimulating the local economy and offering economic opportunities during the current financial crisis, proponents say. “It seems like a natural progression that will add to the breadth and scope of biotech here in Cambridge,” Mayor E. Denise Simmons said of the project. Simmons said the labs will benefit the city by attracting more people with highly specialized talents and employing many more. She said she will ask the company to reach out to Cambridge when looking for employees. The new unit will be located in Cambridge, Mass., as well as Cambridge, England...