Results tagged “nature”

The actual maple sugaring season doesn't begin till mid-February, but most area residents will need a few weeks after the politics high of the presidential inauguration before they can handle a sugar high anyhow. Highland Orchard in Sturbridge, MA and Parker's Maple Barn in Mason, NH are two relatively nearby options. Just watch out for the nature surrounding the sugar shacks; nature can be a very lethal thing.

The Globe has finally confirmed something we've long suspected: the city makes you stupid. Researchers like Marc Berman of the University of Michigan (whose page we encourage you to visit for a special surprise) have verified that the metropolis mangles minds:

Image credit: Nature abhors a vacuum

Waking up to an everyday landscape purified and made strange by snow on the day after seeing DJ Spooky’s Subliminal Strings: Nature Morte musical performance was a perfect reflection of the concert itself. Starting out with a familiar, instrument-based backdrop, Spooky built an electronic scaffolding on top that both complemented the more traditional sounds and allowed them to become even more breathtaking. While built on recognizable notes and tonal systems, the conversational interchange of Spooky’s equipment and the musicians’ instruments created an uncannily attractive yet innovative performance that was perfectly echoed in the unheimliche buildings, streets, and open spaces we all saw this morning.

--At least Mother Nature was kind enough to warn us of the impending weather torture with thunder. The Globe kindly reminds you not to drive like a dumbass. [Boston Globe]

The New England Confectionary Company (NECCO) has announced the new phrases that will be printed on its hearts. This year's themes include weather ("Melt My Heart" and "Get My Drift") and animals ("Wild Life" and "Nature Lover").

It was a busy Friday in Boston sports - two Red Sox games, one Patriots exhibition game, baby news from someone other than Tom Brady...whew! We're just going to dive right in and give you the quick and dirty version of the Redux. Ready? Here goes: -- We've heard that Sox fans who attended the first game of the Friday Fenway doubleheader made sure to carefully tuck their ticket stubs away. We imagine that the...

The Camp!Camp! series will run the weekend of today, August 10, through Monday, August 13. Check the Brattle Theatre for showtimes. The Brattle Theatre is holding its Camp!Camp! weekend. Bring a whistle, short-shorts, a snorkel, and a sleeping bag so you can do whatever it is kids do at camp. First off is Summercamp!, a documentary about a crew of kids attending Swift Nature Camp in Wisconsin. The filmmakers follow five boys and five girls...

--Yesterday's rain caused some trouble when the streets began to fill with water. The Herald estimates that the city received 2.16 inches of water in three hours. A part of Orient Avenue in East Boston began to collapse and took a car belonging to Matt Houle with it. Houle tried to drive the car out before it got swallowed up, but Mother Nature won. Eventually, it took a tow truck to rescue the car. If...

It seems that Mother Nature didn't think the Red Sox's doubleheader sweep of the Tigers on Thursday was impressive enough - the first games after that two-fer will be tidily bundled in another dual-game gameday. The Sox called Friday's scheduled game against their Interleague Play Atlanta visitors pretty early, deciding instead to go the route of a 1 p.m./7:35 p.m. Saturday schedule. The pitching breakdown: Dice-K vs. Braves pitcher Anthony Lerew in the afternoon game,...

A woman has been charged with burning down a combo house/pagan church in Belchertown. The motive seems to be connected to a property dispute instead of a pagan ritual gone wrong.

Yesterday, the hotness of Boston was all the rage in the local media. Residents wandered around dazed and confused in their cargo shorts, wondering if they were still in Boston or if they'd been transported to California overnight. The temperature yesterday hit 69 degrees in the city. Those who enjoyed An Inconvenient Truth have more ammunition in the debate over global warming. But those who remain unconvinced about all that global warming jazz will...

DCist helps us make more sense of the world this week. Posts like this concert review are the reason for Scott Stapp. DCist also enumerates the reasons for playing ultimate frisbee, Condi's tight buns, their love of a local convenience store, and their jealousy of a person in Seattle calling the city. LAist documented graf artist Banksy's most recent visit to LA in one two three posts. They also found the best possible use...

With another half a foot of snow falling yesterday and the temperature falling even more the last thing we’re thinking about is heat. Those warm summer days watching the swan boats float around, lemonade, ice cream, t-shirts and sandals are far from the mind. Science is great, the technologies we’ve seen in the last few years are amazing, timing, though, remains of the essence. One would think there could be a better time of year to tell people about the latest craze in global warming. ClimatePrediction.net was written up this month in the journal Nature. They’ve found, using almost 100,000 of personal computers worldwide, that the Earth is heating up at a rate twice what had previously been predicted. From their models they are now predicting a nearly 11 °Celsius (for us in the States that’s about 50 ° Fahrenheit). Today when temperatures in Boston are near 10 °F that’d kick us up to a pleasant 60 °F. A welcome change in the middle of a bitter cold snap. To put this in perspective: burnt toast in July. When we get those nasty days of grueling humidity and heat with thermometer readings at 90° F or more that would mean after global warming takes it’s toll according to this model we would be facing temperatures of 140 °F. Bostonist can’t imagine what that would mean for the world, but the ocean off the Cape might be warm enough to swim before August. There is really more bad than good that will come of this…take action and quit using AquaNet on your hair (it really doesn’t help your look anyway), oh, and get rid of your car.