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Thoreau's flowers threatened, tie-dye coughs, Fido (1, 2, 3...ad infinitum), Gladwell on green roofs, modeling tyranny...

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• Climate Change Destroying Walden Pond’s Flowers
  Though perhaps not biologically significant, the poetic destruction of flower species by Walden pond still speaks powerfully.
• The Mysterious Cough, Caught on Film
  The beautiful fluid dynamics of a cough have been recorded for the first time, a discovery that could help scientists model infection and germ distribution.
• Man’s Best Friend Forever
  Old Yeller just got a lot less sad.
• The Air Up There
  Malcolm Gladwell explores common sense and the green roof revolution.
• Dangerous Models
  Our willful ignorance and lack of basic questioning of the models that control things from fisheries to finance lead to spectacular failures.

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