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Letter from Haiti: After the Earthquake
… that acre of ground near Bwa Kayiman. My intentions didn’t matter; the thing naturally, inevitably, assumed this form.
Someone in charge of a feudal state must feed his retainers. They deserve it, they expect it, and without it they grow disloyal. The process can be disarmingly simple: it’s traditional, for example, for drug …
Because They Are There
… most commonly known Talitridae are the sandhoppers, which live in burrows on sandy beaches, or shorehoppers, which survive on seaweed wrack. Driftwood hoppers, by contrast, dwell and feed on decomposing driftwood, recycling it back to its elements.
Only seven species of driftwood hoppers are known, two of them just described by Wildish. One of them …
Sirte and Misrata, Libya’s Last Battle
… reverberated on Tripoli Street.
Another type of victory dance was roving Misrata’s neighborhoods this night. Headlights from hundreds of cars streaked the city as they raced, feeding off bits of information from thousands of mobile phone calls, to see the body.
We got there the same way, but a burly fighter tried to stop …
Instant Gratification
… created sophisticated data feedback systems that keep players on an upgrade treadmill. As Walker and his peers battle their way through their virtual worlds, the data they generate are captured and used to make subsequent game iterations even more “immersive,” which means players play more, and generate still more data, which inform even more …
Read MoreBiofashionista
… bacteria-based homebrew.
It begins with a bathtub full of sweetened green tea, to which Lee introduces a “mother culture” of yeast and bacteria. As the culture feeds on the tea’s sugary nutrients, it creates threads of cellulose that form a skin on the surface of the liquid. Once this mat is two centimeters …
Lend Me Your (3-D Printed) Ear
… our private universe, spurs growth, sheds light on all our episodes and exploits, transfigures daily life. Its edible rays feed the green plants on land and sea, which animals graze upon, and we dine upon in turn, and so it quivers through our blood. It’s only in death that our long conversation with …
Read MoreGarbage In, Garbage Out
… covered wagon, the self-contained, waterborne contraption gathers debris from the Jones Falls River and guides it onto a conveyor belt that elevates it eight feet and feeds a dumpster on the back end. Water currents (augmented by solar panels, when needed) run the wheel, and the wheel in turn drives the conveyor, which collects …
Read MoreFeeling Hormonal
… Because mongoose moms are often simultaneously pregnant and caring for pups, Sanderson and her colleagues chose to study only male caregivers, whose job is to “escort” a single foraging mongoose pup for six weeks until it becomes independent. “The escort plays with, feeds, carries, protects and general[ly] cares for that single escorted pup for
Read MoreEthics Across Borders
… well.
You’ve probably heard about the recent study, published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in which nearly 700,000 Facebook users’ feeds were manipulated to contain primarily posts filled with negative words, or those filled with positive words. Would all the positivity or negativity affect our own moods, as …
On Visitors
… the road across from my side yard, hoping to see the wild turkeys. My husband made a short video of them eating spilled birdseed below our bird feeder. There were once 17 of them. Seventeen! Then there were 15. Last year, early in the summer, I saw only one, pecking along the gravel path. Let …
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