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...tube amplifier. Although almost made extinct in the 1970s by cheaper transistor-based amps, vacuum tubes (also known as valves) are back in the mix for a growing number of high-end audio companies. This isn't just sonic nostalgia: audiophiles have long claimed that tubes pump out warmer, smoother sounds - a result of the low-level distortion that tubes generate - than transistors. If your music goes down these tubes, it's guaranteed to amplify your listening pleasure...
...aficionado, city honey is purer, according to Benbow, because in the country you have oilseed rape, genetically modified crops, pesticides and fertilizers, whereas traffic pollution doesn't seem to affect bees. City bees are more productive: ample food plus warmer temperatures mean they yield up to three times as much honey as their country cousins, according to the British Beekeepers Association. "London's a delight for a bee, because there are so many flowering plants and trees," says Benbow, who describes the taste of the honey he collects from 17 other hives he has hidden on London rooftops as similar...
...climate change seems to remain a soft issue, like most anything smacking of environmentalism. Most Americans are in favor of it (who doesn't like nature?), but aren't necessarily willing to take to the streets or the ballot box for it. That's perhaps understandable - fear of a warmer world in the future is a lot less palpable than fear of terrorism today - but it's a failing. Climate change is the most important issue facing the world today and tomorrow, not just because of the risks of rising seas or worsening droughts, but because the economic revolution that...
...college-age members of the Millennial generation, born after 1980. These post Cold War kids have grown up with the threat of global warming - just as their parents grew up with the fear of nuclear war - and they know that they'll be left to cope with a warmer world tomorrow if nothing is done to slow carbon emissions today...
...conditions in the already dry Southwest as the planet warms. A study led by researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., and published in Science last year found that as temperatures increased in the West, which is now 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit (almost 1 degree Celsius) warmer than it was in 1987, so did the length of the wildfire season and the size and duration of the average fire...