Word: warmers
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...Hike to hidden waterfalls. Sip potent caipirinhas made with locally brewed cachaç a. Or catch a speedboat to the ancient fort on Anhatomirim Island, where the Portuguese fought both Spaniards and pirates. Nature lovers should visit Garopaba Bay, south of Florianópolis, to spot whales migrating to warmer waters between June and November. It seems even the ocean-going whale finds the Emerald Coast too alluring to ignore...
...think of Marcel Duchamp's spinning bicycle wheel screwed to a stool, Alexander Calder's abstract mobiles or the self-destructing machines of Jean Tinguely - moved the art world. Recently, though, it has tended to be sidelined as the work of toymakers and garden-shed boffins, finding a warmer welcome in the science museum than the art gallery. That's no bad thing, to judge from "Fantastical Mechanisms - Machines Tell Stories," the biggest exhibition of its kind in Europe since the '60s, on show at the dashingly futuristic Phaeno science center in Wolfsburg, Germany until June...
...Evolutionary Synthesis in Oslo, and lead author of the PLoS Medicine paper. Working with nearly 50 years of animal, human and bacteriological statistics from the former Soviet Union, his team found that human plague in Kazakhstan occurs only when the local gerbil population reaches a certain threshold in winter. Warmer winters mean more gerbils. That, says Stenseth, suggests plague's "re-emergence might have a climate component...
...receive 20% less snow than in previous decades. On the slopes in the U.S. and Europe, the season is shorter, and in Scotland there has been so little snow that ski resorts are being turned into mountain-biking courses. In an unfortunate cycle, warmer winters mean less snow, and less real snow means that more artificial snow is made, which uses enormous amounts of energy and in turn exacerbates climate change. It's no wonder that ski resorts are implementing eco-friendly practices ranging from wind-powered lifts to green building initiatives...
...says Miyoko Kaneko, 66, who traveled to Sugamo to pick up a few pairs at Maruji clothing store for herself and her friends back home in neighboring Saitama prefecture. "It's no good if it's not red," she says, as someone who wears them daily. "It keeps you warmer." As do the copious amounts of Japanese sake, beer and wine that stand out near the entrance to the local 7-11. One employee, Daisuke Fukumoto, says that retired men often drink outside while seated in Sugamo's plentiful rest areas, or take a tipple with them for the ride...