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| Since you are already here, I can give you a quick summary of how whales hold their breath underwater. |
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| It is not even clear that assisted migration or any migrationfor that matter will help at least for some species. |
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| In one case, a group of conservationists has alreadytaken it upon itself to try on their own to save an endangered tree, the Florida Torreya tree, through assisted migration. |
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| The group believed its effort is justified, but I and many other biologists will be watching very closely how this maverick group makes it out, because like I said there could be unintended consequences. |
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| And initially I was surprised none of you chose to write about Bela Bartok that is until I rememberedwe haven’t had a chance to discuss him in class yet. |
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| He attended weddings, dances and religious ceremonies, where he heard a very different sort of music from the romantic stuff being played in the concert halls in the cities. |
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| But it turns out that what would hater have a notable influence on European music on the whole, was the way Bartok used elements he heard in folk songs in his own compositions. |
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| As we have said before, the main point of the renaissance was to revive the genius of the ancient Greeks and Romans, which is why designers of renaissance gardens designed them as the ancient Romans would have designed them, or at least as they imagined the ancient Romans would have designed them. |
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| It made me think that when I write my story, the one we have to write for this class, I can maybe use my own memories to get me started. |
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| But what I really wanted the class to take away from it was that you don’t need to write about the great exciting world when you write your stories. |
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| You know, as the due day of your stories approaches, I am hearing from a lot of students that they are worried because they don’t have anything exciting enough to write about. |
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| And so we have that collage we looked at, with an artist took different, you know,cut-out squares of colored paper, threw them onto the canvas, and wherever they landed, that was the composition of the work! |
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| The performers at the Cabaret Voltaire would also get the audience involved, which was extremely unusual. |
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| At the end of yesterday’s class, we were discussing landfills and the hundreds of millions of tons of everyday garbage, which are deposited into them each year in the United States. |
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| We have government recycling programs for materials like plastics, glass and metal, yet widespread solutions for organic waste materials haven’t really been addressedin the United States. |
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| The gases are captured and can be burned to produce electricity, which saves a lot of money and ultimately decreases our need for fuels like petroleum and coal, which are not only expensive but are also polluting. |
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| Not only did the university same money, we are also learning even more about the APS process. |
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| The area was named Cape Cod because there was so many Cod fish in the waters just off its shores, so many that the first Europeans who fished there in the 17th century reported it was better than in New Finland, Canada. |
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| It doesn’t involve taking pictures, but it does involve working with pictures, filling requests for specific photos from students and professors. |
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