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...largely because ice and air that old haven't yet been found. So scientists rely instead on indirect measurements - and these have led to a climate mystery: some episodes of past warming, including a planetary heat wave about 15 million years ago and another about 3.5 million years ago, seem to have happened without a rise in CO2. No one quite understands why. Maybe other greenhouse gases were the cause - methane, for example. Or maybe it had to do with changes in ocean circulation. (See pictures of the world's most polluted places...
...what better place for a fun activity than the old bone yard? Though it may seem creepy to camp out in the cemetery, volunteers appear unfazed...
...teas, lavish formals, and a dining-hall-turned-Opera-house. As spring semester rolled around, however, I found myself sans blockmates and with the prospect of losing senior status in the upcoming rooming lottery. What’s a floater to do? Transfer again, naturally.Transferring a second time seemed easier than getting a party form signed, and just like that I was destined for Kirkland. Moving in this fall was admittedly ridiculous. My storage boxes were plastered with three separate Houses’ identification stickers. I assumed my fourth and final mailing address of my college career. For the first...
...Ph.D. candidate. Studying primate biology as an undergraduate at Columbia University, Jenkins never expected to end up where he is today. But after contracting malaria during a research trip to Kenya, Jenkins decided to switch to literature to feed his obsession with the Victorian novel. Though the two topics seem unrelated, Jenkins sees a clear connection. “In both disciplines, you are searching for great significance in the tiniest details, great meaning in minute actions and things,” he says...
Mankiw is tall. He has a long, thin torso that exaggerates his height and shoulders that seem perpetually raised near his ears. He looks exactly like the headshot on his wildly popular economics blog, down to the the half-smile, mysterious as that of the Mona Lisa, which never leaves his face. He sits with arms crossed, wearing a button-down denim shirt and one leg crossed, utterly relaxed except for an occasional foot wiggle. For someone with a cult of personality and a class size that sometimes reaches into four digits, he is eminently unthreatening. His aura is kind...