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...sheer ubiquity of carbon is what makes eliminating greenhouse-gas emissions so difficult. But the surprising truth, Roston writes, is that we have actually been decarbonizing over time. Humanity's main fuel for eons was wood, which has a carbon-to-hydrogen ratio of 10 to 1 when burned; by comparison, that ratio is 2 to 1 for coal and 1 to 2 for oil. The problem is that we're burning ever larger amounts of fossil fuels, putting a greater concentration of carbon into the atmosphere than has been seen for millions of years. Though carbon has its positive...
...Shmoo, regards it from below. There is nothing else. It ought to be ridiculous, but it is profoundly haunting, full of an indefinable melancholy provoked by what Miro identified as the main motif of his work: ''tiny forms in vast empty spaces.'' And you are always struck by the sheer amount of work that he lavished upon those tiny forms. The bugs and dogs, even the genital hairs, of Miro's imagination live because of the graphic care expended on them: his solicitude makes them vibrant, his consciousness becomes theirs. Miro claimed that his landscapes ''have nothing whatever...
...recordings of the heroic Third and frisky Eighth complete his latest cycle. Like his previous version, issued in the mid-1970s, these interpretations are forceful and decisive, fast without being headlong, firm without being inflexible. The Berlin Philharmonic's playing is silky as ever. But in terms of sheer kinetic excitement, nothing will top the explosive, elemental performances from the 1960s. Dohnanyi's Ninth boasts a strong quartet of soloists and is infused with the German maestro's unerring sense of structure and musical integrity. No cheap effects here, but, unfortunately, not a strong sense of drama either. Considering that...
...caffeine won't keep you from getting drunk. In fact, from a psychological perspective, drinking caffeine with your alcohol is much riskier than drinking alcohol alone. One of the fascinating things about how humans process alcohol is that we have at least some capacity to overcome its effects by sheer force of will. Mark Fillmore, a psychologist at the University of Kentucky, has found that study volunteers who are warned that an alcoholic drink will highly impair their performance on a psychomotor test actually do better on the test than people who are given the same drink but no information...
Stanford is betting that the absence of stars will be offset by the sheer curiosity generated by the oversize prize and by new audiences, like Americans and Chinese, who won't miss the stars. And ultimately, he's counting on Twenty20's purest qualities. "People are going to fall in love with this game--you'll see," he says. "In 10 years, this could be the world's biggest sport, bigger than soccer." So he's prone to a little hyperbole. But what's more American than overkill...