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...like a forest, for example, squealing might look like an alternation between two stable states - barren versus fertile - before a drought takes its final toll on the woodland and transforms it into a desert, at which point even monsoons won't bring the field back to life. Fish populations seem to collapse suddenly as well - overfishing causes fluctuations in fish stocks until it passes a threshold, at which point there are simply too few fish left to bring back the population, even if fishing completely ceases. And even in financial markets, sudden collapses tend to be preceded by heightened trading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There a Climate-Change Tipping Point? | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

...vocals and an addictively choppy beat that is perfect for your “Shaft” moments. Also prominent on the album are textured Dabrye and J Dilla-type hip-hop break beats that, while not as catchy as the other tracks, do have bits of melody that seem to sneak up on listeners. Unlike most of his past releases, this album does feature a significant amount of vocal work, but this takes a back seat to the beautiful beats that define the music. Tying together an ambitious range of sounds with a newfound knack for poppy melody, Stephen...

Author: By Ross S. Weinstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bibio | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

...even hip-hop beats—all the while paying the utmost respect to the vibe of the Gulf Coast shoreline they grew up on. They are destined to be the fathers of an entirely new sub genre: Beach-Ethereal Electronic Rock. With their many varied elements, it would seem that Blind Man’s Colour’s music would be confused and overstuffed. But, surprisingly, the band is at its best when their many sounds converge, bringing together and maintaining the various aspects of their experimentation. Two tracks that come to mind immediately...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Blind Man's Colour | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

...vodka and Kantian categories,” love or political action—inevitably become only “tranquilizers against any too sharp coagulation of reality.” All individual choices are colored with the pigments of despair; all action comes to seem only a futile bulwark against ultimate insanity, or suicide, or conformity. Reading the book Cortázar’s way traps one in a final loop between two random chapters. “Sometimes I am convinced that the triangle is another name for stupidity, that eight times eight is madness...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cortázar’s Playful Magnum Opus | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

...poet Pablo Neruda was moved to remark, quite seriously, that “anyone who doesn’t read Cortázar is doomed.” Cortázar’s hope, given us via Morelli, was to “attempt a work which may seem alien or antagonistic to the time and history surrounding it, and which nonetheless includes it, explains it, and in the last analysis orients it towards a transcendence within whose limits man is waiting.” No light task. The ultimate success of “Hopscotch” lies...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cortázar’s Playful Magnum Opus | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

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