AT the beginning of "Earth to Bucky," a new play at the Bay Street Theater here, Ricky is on supper break at his big desk in his big office, set to feast on a Big Mac and fries.
Weak electromagnetic fields, occurring naturally in our environment and present since the beginning of Earth, are progressively being complemented by numerous artificial sources, stemming mainly from the requirements of our modern lifestyle.
Since Mr. Turrell bought the 400,000-year-old, two-mile-wide crater in 1979 and began moving tons of earth to carve out different kinds of viewing chambers and tunnels — making his art of light, sky and astronomical events instead of, say, paint and canvas — anticipation has been building.
Fire has been a significant force in the evolution of ecosystems since the beginning of life on earth, and has occupied a powerful role in shaping the physical and natural world as we experience it today.
So today, I'd like to take you on a little journey, back to the very beginning of time, when Earth was in its infancy, all the way back 6,000 years ago.
In the beginning of 2014, the Earth-orbiting spacecraft Hisaki observed unique phenomena; the Jovian aurora and IPT suddenly brightened and the time of the brightenings correlated (see Fig. 1).
Fire crews began excavating the pile of earth at 18 30 BST on Monday and found the car about 50 minutes later.
This was the beginning of the modern rare-earth industry in which large quantities of high-purity rare-earth elements became available for electronic, magnetic, phosphor, and optical applications.
As I documented in my first Trump film, You've Been Trumped, at the crack of dawn one morning in 2010, the billionaire's bulldozers sprang into action and began dumping thousands of tons of earth around the homes of local residents Susan Munro and David Milne, after the tycoon had branded their houses ugly.
Optical sensors that collect data in the reflective solar spectral region have played extremely important roles from the very beginning of remote sensing of the earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere, and through the advancements of remote sensing techniques and applications.
This application was the beginning of the modern rare-earth industry.
