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The Carbon/sugar High???

a: Carbon dioxide ~
b: sugar for the planet

What: "Carbon dioxide is like sugar for the planet - it boosts plant growth and makes the climate warmer - and observations show that our emissions are having a dangerous effect. In any case, our environmental problems extend far beyond global warming, and there are many reasons to reduce our impact on the planet. The realization that we are out of our depth may open the way to a more immediate and direct response. As I discuss in the book, mathematical models are powerful and essential tools in many areas of science, and they help us understand complex systems like the weather, the economy, or our own bodies. But we shouldn't rely on them to predict the future."

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Writer: David Orrell
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Date: Jul 22 2013 6:57 PM


Chemistry As The Syntax Of Atom

a: atom ~
b: the 26 letters of the alphabet

What:

"The diversity of chemical behavior results from only about 100 different elements and, thus, only 100 different kinds of atoms. In a sense, the atoms are like the 26 letters of the alphabet that join together in different combinations to form the immense number of words in our language. But how do the atoms combine with each other? What rules govern the ways in which they can combine? How do the properties of a substance relate to the kinds of atoms it contains? Indeed, what is an atom like, and what makes the atoms of one element different from those of another? "


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Writer: Not Stated
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Date: Apr 24 2014 3:04 PM



a: Morning sun ~
b: going into another dream world

What:

"Gehry's architectonic masterpiece appears to be a metallic scarf flowing frozen in motion in the strong winds of Elciego. Waking up to this and the vineyards doused in the morning sun is like going into another dream world that seems too surreal to be grasped as reality."


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Writer: Not Stated
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Date: Feb 12 2015 1:05 PM



a: city ~
b: an organism

What:

"A city is like an organism," said IBM Corp. computational biologist Robert Prill, who is among those at the company investigating ways to better collect and analyze these immense new public-health genome databases. "It has a circulating system consisting of the movement of people."


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Writer: Robert Prill
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Date: Jul 23 2015 7:50 PM



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