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...Mysterious Production.” For example, even though the song “Dark Matter” begins with whistling that’s Bird-ish, it bursts into guitar crescendos and epic sonics that seem plucked straight from U2’s “Joshua Tree.” Consider him a revisionist, not a plagiarist. Bird’s music often complements a simple melody in the foreground with complex string arrangements in the background. However, in some songs, he tends to oversimplify. In “Plasticities,” Bird matches his voice with...
...snakeheads who will shepherd them to new beginnings in the U.S., Japan and, now most of all, Europe. Around 20 people from Little Lin's own hamlet of 300 have left for Europe in the past decade, each one stopping in front of the village's holy banyan tree to ask for protection during the journey...
...while it is important to protect our tropical forests, turning Greenland into one big woodland is a decidedly bad idea. “Large-scale afforestation”—that is, tree growth—“implemented in temperate latitudes may be largely ineffectual in mitigating global warming,” the authors write...
...turns out, the situation is far more complex. In a paper published in next Tuesday’s Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences, a team of climate researchers reports that worldwide tree growth would actually warm the atmosphere, despite the corresponding decrease in atmospheric carbon dioxide...
...Carbon 14 analysis dated the human rib contained in the relics to between the 7th and 3rd centuries B.C. Pollen testing also found traces of pine - a tree that didn't exist in medieval Normandy but whose resin was widely used to embalm bodies in ancient Egypt. The presence of the cat bones might have added weight to the relics' authenticity, as black cats were traditionally thrown on the fires that burned those accused of witchcraft in medieval times. DNA tests revealed however that the animal was of non-European origin...