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...know that change is at hand? The Nature researchers noticed one potential signal: the sudden variance between two distinct states within one system, known by the less technical term squealing. In an ecological system like a forest, for example, squealing might look like an alternation between two stable states - barren versus fertile - before a drought takes its final toll on the woodland and transforms it into a desert, at which point even monsoons won't bring the field back to life. Fish populations seem to collapse suddenly as well - overfishing causes fluctuations in fish stocks until it passes a threshold...
...Cortázar’s hope, given us via Morelli, was to “attempt a work which may seem alien or antagonistic to the time and history surrounding it, and which nonetheless includes it, explains it, and in the last analysis orients it towards a transcendence within whose limits man is waiting.” No light task. The ultimate success of “Hopscotch” lies in the cock-eyed bravery of its attempt...
...embodiment of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, which imbued the creation of furniture and the domestic with a political aspect; working in opposition to the sterilizing effects of the Industrial Revolution, the movement emphasized a return to handicraft, an importance of organic materials, and an emphasis on style within the middle-class home. For the brothers Greene, this was manifested in the subtle details of their furniture design. One living room table was sent to the builders with the instructions that the “architect will give direction of grain,” and sure enough, the wood?...
Evolution seems to have programmed this discomfort via a brain structure called the amygdalae, a pair of almond-shaped brain regions deep within each temporal lobe that control fear and the processing of emotion. It's your amygdalae that keep you from getting so close to another person that he could easily reach out, gouge an eye, and then drag your woman off by her hair. (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
...February, CU-Boulder began its search for a permanent replacement and attracted 129 applicants from across the nation, according to Hilliard. But the ultimate decision—which likely ocurred within the last two weeks, Hilliard said—seemed an easy one to make...