Oct 27th, 2008 · Perhaps nowhere are residents more sensitive to potential voting problems than in Palm Beach County, Fla., home of the infamous butterfly ballot from the 2000 presidential recount. The county has a new voting system, but officials still worry about problems on Election Day.
Oct 23rd, 2008 · Australian-born singer Butterfly Boucher was making instrumental music at the age of 10. Years later, she was performing all the instruments on her 2004 album, Flutterby. She recently stopped by Mountain Stage, this time armed with only her electric guitar, to perform a set that includes her first single, "I Can't Make Me."
Apr 17th, 2008 · Meteorologist Edward Lorenz has died. He laid the foundations for the field of scientific study called chaos theory. He famously suggested that a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil could ultimately produce a tornado in Texas.
Apr 17th, 2008 · Edward Lorenz explained how something as small as the flutter of a butterfly's wings could lead to a tornado. He died Wednesday at age 90.
Apr 15th, 2008 · For the past ten years, Jamie Schaaf has had an ongoing battle with his music. A multi-instrumentalist from Portsmouth, NH, Schaaf has been writing songs off and on, mostly as a hobby, but he's never been comfortable with his work. For the RPM Challenge he decided to let go of any hangups and produce an entire album in just one month. Schaaf came up with a collection of ten original tracks he's calling Postcards From the Back of the Bar. It features the folky song "Butterfly."
Jan 11th, 2008 · What drives monarch butterflies to travel en masse thousands of miles to pine groves in Mexico? New research sheds light on the complex circadian clock mechanism in the butterfly brain, and how monarchs can use the position of the sun for navigation.
Dec 10th, 2007 · Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang tackles American notions of race and art in his partly autobiographical new play. Yellow Face, which opens tonight in New York's Public Theater, is a comedy with serious themes about race and the politics of identity. Hwang is the only Asian-American ever to win the Tony Award for best play, for M. Butterfly in 1988.
Nov 30th, 2007 · Based on Jean-Dominique Bauby's 1997 memoir, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is an unexpectedly funny film. It was written after a stroke left Bauby almost completely paralyzed.