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...with the mega-sonic, here it comes off as too basic. Bird frequently does a wonderful job of layering different elements, but occasionally, mixing too many ideas works to the detriment of the song as a whole. Take “Armchairs.” Bird begins with a slow wash of sound, which grows and changes slightly as piano comes to the fore. The song turns to lounge jazz, and then the song goes big at the end, crashing and bold—and then, nearly six minutes in, the rhythm shifts to make it sound like another song...
...erudite references and pushing Chrismukkah onto the national calendar, but he owned it. None of that David Schwimmer cautiousness, that Tom Hanks self-mockery, that Rainn Wilson hipster alternative cluelessness--not even the John Cusack exasperation at the idiots running everything. Brody's nerdiness was unapologetic, So Cal slow and so self-assured, the network let his character have a hot girlfriend. His new archetype was successful enough that two years into the show, he started seeing scripts for pilots describing characters as "an Adam Brody type...
...immediate lesson is not to take a chainsaw to all of Alaska. “Clear-cutting mountains to slow climate change is, of course, nuts,” wrote Ken Caldeira, a scientist at the Carnegie Institution and one of the study’s authors, in a January op-ed in The New York Times. Slowing global warming while destroying ecosystems is poor policy, he says. But so is blindly planting trees...
There’s a larger lesson here, however, than where not to plant trees: Optimism alone will not slow climate change. The Gaia hypothesis, taken to an extreme, implies that humans can sit back and watch the Earth warm, and eventually the earth will respond and restore itself. The view is characteristic of many individuals’ (and nations’) attitudes today. True, the earth will respond, but when it’s finished responding, it won’t look anything like the earth we have now. By now, you’ve probably heard the litany...
...Where Brady went, we went,” Harvard coach Chris Ridolfi said. “When he had good matches, we generally won, and if he had a slow day, we struggled. We’re hoping that he can progress and continue moving forward and carry us again next year...