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...author of a climate-change novel shows you a polar-bear rug in the first act, you can be sure it will bare its teeth in the next one.) Quite suddenly, Beard discovers what he believes is the solution to the problem of climate change: artificial photosynthesis, harnessing sunlight to split water and yield hydrogen and oxygen, which can be used to drive fuel cells and provide cheap, clean electricity. The earth will be saved, as will Beard's flagging career (and bank account). An unrepentant narcissist at heart, Beard has no trouble transitioning from disinterested physicist to clean-energy...
...It’s the first place I’ve worked at with windows, and I love it because I love the daylight, the sunlight, and especially being here on the river, near the water. I also think it’s really cute when they dress up in their bunny costumes and go all around...
Score: +500 for staff friendliness, -20 for occasional blinding sunlight from the windows...
Vampires are like health care plans: everybody has his own idea about how they should work. Grahame-Smith's are inhumanly strong and only mildly fazed by sunlight. Like the vamps of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, they appear human until they show their true form: fangs, gross veiny blue skin and all-black eyes. Grahame-Smith describes a vampire getting his game face on: "His eyes turned black in the space of a single blink, as if the inkwells in his pupils had suddenly shattered - the spill contained behind glass." (See why zombies are the new vampires...
Emanuel, for his part, calls it a plausible scenario. "But it does raise an intriguing proposition," he says. "It suggests that for a given combination of sunlight and atmospheric composition, it's possible for Earth to have more than one stable climate regime...