I don't know that I completely buy this premise, but the concept that the earth and humanity create a complex interaction <I>feels</I> right. I think that more examples will be necessary to completely convince me (and others). Now that the idea has been broached, I'm sure scientists will be looking for that data.
Meet the Schmidt Sting Pain Index. Example: Being stung by a Bullhorn acacia ant is "a rare, piercing, elevated sort of pain. Someone has fired a staple into your cheek."
<I>The Birmingham News</I> recently uncovered a cache of unpublished photographs from the early years of the Civil Rights struggle. Thank goodness these images weren't lost.
Chapter one: vasopressin and oxytocin did it.
Nanopaint that blocks cell phones? Yowsah!
Dear "poker casino 875,"<br>
I hate you.
The BBC's Adam Livingstone says that he knows it's not—even if the Beeb did use the "t-word" in a story last week.
Walking tours featuring the gargoyles, green men, griffins, and hippogryphs of New York. When I first moved here, my wife told me that looking up all the time marked me as a tourist, which seemed like a terrible thing to be. Then I discovered that by not looking up, I missed all of this stuff, which seemed much worse.
There's <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/022806summer/">another complication</a>.
I don't know anything about Ethan Winer except that he made one heck of a cool video of himself playing cello. It's <I>all</I> cello, baby.