Several years ago, paleontologist Jennifer Clack of the University of Cambridge in the U.K. proposed that hearing evolved to help vertebrates catch the buzzing insects that were undergoing an evolutionary explosion around the same time.
The founder of futurism, Filippo Marinetti, who caught the buzz early on, dedicated his play Electric Puppets to Wilbur Wright, "who knew how to raise our migrating hearts higher than the captivating mouths of women".
I wonder if Websites that come up more in long-tail searches will try to catch the Caffeine buzz by mimicking news sites or plastering Twitter and Facebook updates on their front page.
On Sept. 5, two producers who have presented at the Fringe will inaugurate a new series that provides audiences with a second chance to catch the most buzzed-about shows, which are often sold out (or gone) by the time you hear of them.
Catching the birding buzz, I found a quiet bench and was transfixed by the purring drumroll of the tiny wings of dozens of hummingbirds.
Even staid accountants have caught the entrepreneurial buzz: the annual staff turnover rate at Price Waterhouse's local software-services group is 25%.One lesson from this potted history is that entrepreneurial clusters are a long-term investment.
A big, dense text-and-image painting by Deborah Grant catches the paranoiac buzz of a nation at war, while a video installation by Matthew Bakkom brings the moral clangor of the World War II era into the present.
Even a casual visitor like me caught the entrepreneurial buzz.
Midnight Mass, Cuba Catch the authentic buzz of Havana, with four nights in the colonial-style Hotel Sevilla, living it up with mojitos and cigars.
D'Antoni himself has been caught up in the buzz, recently telling a talk-show host, "I think we do have the ability to win it all".
