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...getting out there and making a difference in the world.” SCIENTISTS OF TOMORROW On Saturday, over 70 children from Cambridge and Boston schools arrived at the Science Center to learn about science from Harvard professors, undergraduates, and teaching fellows. Mangelsdorf Professor of Natural Sciences J. Woodland Hastings, one of the lecturers, gave a talk called “Fireflies and Phosphorescent Seas: How and Why Animals Produce Light.” The conference also featured experiments performed live, which taught the children about basic reactions through demonstrations such as “Baking Soda and Vinegar...
...planet needn't be stopped by death. In Australia a funeral company is offering the green crowd an eco-friendly coffin in which to exit. The boxes are made of wood fiber, 90% of which is derived from recycled materials; natural glue holds them together. In the U.S., woodland cemeteries are another way the funeral industry has gone green. Here are a few more paths to an environmentally correct afterlife...
DIED. Frank McCarthy, 74, retired U.S. Army brigadier general and film producer who marshaled his military expertise to help create the films Patton (1970) and MacArthur (1977); of lung cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif. McCarthy served as an aide to Army Chief of Staff General George Marshall during World War II and as an Assistant Secretary of State in the Truman Administration...
Talk about the machine in the garden. Thoreau once famously complained that even in the woodland isolation of Walden Pond, there was no place he could escape the sound of the train whistle. Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi, who designed the Olympic Sculpture Park for the Seattle Art Museum, have made their peace with that. "We thought the trains were amazing," says Weiss. "We wanted the park's pathways to slalom down and capture the energy of those trains." So the Z-shaped pathway that Weiss and Manfredi came up with is intended to praise the forces that shape Seattle...