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Wabi-sabi in the home, according to Lawrence, is "flea markets, not warehouse stores; aged wood, not Pergo; rice paper, not glass. It celebrates cracks and crevices and all the other marks that time, weather and loving use leave behind." Although at first glance it may seem a bit shabby chic, a style that cultivates a worn patina, it differs in philosophy, asking that we "set aside our judgments and our longing for perfection" and concentrate instead on "the beauty of things as they are." It celebrates the tiny flaws that make everything--your mismatched kitchen chairs, a worn teapot...
Everybody talks about the weather, but James O'Brien is often rendered speechless by it. He's spent hours watching how snow forms drifts around buildings and how mud moves when someone steps in it. O'Brien, 34, is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, and one of the world's top experts on how to make computers simulate complex physical systems--such as waves, snowdrifts, viscoelastic fluids (goopy stuff, like mud) and (his favorite) explosions. His work lends a layer of reality to computer games and film animation in which wind, rain...
What the rich world suffers as hardships the poor world often suffers as mass death. The rich, unlike the poor, can afford to live in fortified structures away from floodplains, riverbanks and hillsides. The rich, unlike the poor, have early-warning systems--seismic monitors, weather forecasts and disease-surveillance systems. The rich, unlike the poor, have cars and trucks that enable them to leave on short notice when a physical disaster threatens. And rich countries, unlike poor ones, can quickly mobilize food, drinking water, backup power generators, doctors and emergency medical supplies in the aftermath of disaster...
...technology exists to provide early warnings, but not to stave off the forces of nature. Indeed, while global warming had no part in Sunday's events, studies of climate change have nonetheless warned that in the decades ahead, the planet's oceans will produce increasingly volatile, and deadly weather patterns along the coastlines. Sunday's deadly waves offered a sharp reminder of just how vulnerable the tens of millions of people who make their lives and livelihoods along the earth's coastlines may be in the decades to come...
Follayttar pointed out that unlike CambridgeSide Galleria, which provides indoor parking, Harvard Square stores are dependent on decent weather to draw in shoppers...