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Irreversible Consequences of Global Warming

“Climate change is essentially irreversible.” Six years ago this month – in January 2009 – Susan Solomon, a top climate scientist, authored a scientific study which reached that conclusion. The problem is that the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide remains in the atmosphere for hundreds of years, so even if all fossil fuel emissions (power generation, road transport fuels, etc., etc.) were ended today, the levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere would not be reduced. If on the other hand we continue to generate more carbon dioxide emissions, postponing any serious efforts to reduce them, the climate change will accelerate, eventually Continue reading...

Released in 1983, Rumble Fish, Francis Ford Coppola’s follow-up to his adolescent coming-of-age film The Outsiders, follows the travails of young misfit Rusty James (Matt Dillon), a disaffected, alienated teenager from a broken home, prone to violence and rash behavior, and his complicated relationship with his legendary, aloof brother known as the Motorcycle Boy (Mickey Rourke). Coppola’s aesthetic is a dramatic one, utilizing techniques of film noir and German Expressionism to showcase both the harsh world of adulthood that Rusty James fears entering and the lonely, colorless world of the Motorcycle Boy, which he cannot fully engage Continue reading...

Asian art pieces have been exciting and mystifying art loves for centuries. With the finely crafted paintings and woodblock carvings to the delicately shaped sculptures of old, the various forms of Asian art adopted over many regions have managed to take on a life of their own. No other place in the world has the same feeling or texture as many of the Asian art pieces found in China, Japan, Korea, Tibet, and many other places. One of the most compelling forms of Asian art is known as Ukiyo-e art, which refers to printing art on a wooden block. Continue reading...

The Grand Canyon is one of the most stunning natural wonders of the world. It is a collection of mighty rock formations carved roughly by the Colorado River millions of years ago. Geologists estimate that the majestic Grand Canyon is nearly 450 kilometers long (280 miles) and almost 2 kilometers deep, equivalent to one mile (Grolier’s Student Encyclopedia, 2004, p. 44). Its peaks and gorges vary in width (Wenk, 2010, p. 19-20). As the Colorado River cut deeply, it created huge dents called ‘gorges’ on the surface of the rocks, which eventually exposed the buried fossils of ancient Continue reading...