Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Cornstalks Everywhere But Nothing Else, Not Even A Bee | Synopsis

Cornstalks Everywhere But Nothing Else, Not Even A Bee

mexican potted shade plant Potted plants in the shadow of a doorway, Puerto Vallarta Mexico
mexican potted shade plant Potted plants in the shadow of a doorway, Puerto Vallarta Mexico by Wonderlane
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Excerpt:

We'll start in a cornfield — we'll call it an Iowa cornfield in late summer — on a beautiful day. The corn is high. The air is shimmering. There's just one thing missing — and it's a big thing... ... a very big thing, but I won't tell you what, not yet. Instead, let's take a detour. We'll be back to the cornfield in a minute, but just to make things interesting, I'm going to leap halfway around the world to a public park near Cape Town, South Africa, where you will notice a cube, a metal cube, lying there in the grass. That cube was put there by David Liittschwager, a portrait photographer, who spent a few years traveling the world, dropping one-cubic-foot metal frames into gardens, streams, parks, forests, oceans, and then photographing whatever, or whoever came through.

People:

David Liittschwager

Overall Sentiment: 0.020687

Relevance: 0.961763

Craig Childs

Overall Sentiment: 0.053676

Relevance: 0.836304

Craig

Overall Sentiment: 0.331223

Relevance: 0.742861

SentimentQuote
0Craig wondered, "What will I find?"
0.0125371Craig writes like a dream; he uses the cornfield as a metaphor for what a mass extinction might be like, where the Earth becomes "lots of one thing and not much of any other."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.0125371
  • Mean: 0.00626855
  • Standard Deviation: 0

E.O. Wilson

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Relevance: 0.45882

Disambiguation: Academic | AwardNominee | AwardWinner | ScientistReferences:

Cornfields

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Relevance: 0.453037

David

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.404463

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  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

Additional Info:

Company: crane

Overall Sentiment: 0.0152084

Relevance: 0.449626

RadioStation: NPR

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.403773

StateOrCounty: Iowa

Overall Sentiment: 0.0613917

Relevance: 0.739372

Disambiguation: Location | PoliticalDistrict | AdministrativeDivision | GovernmentalJurisdiction | USStateReferences:

StateOrCounty: Grundy County

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.393964

City: Cape Town

Overall Sentiment: 0.0271257

Relevance: 0.57232

Country: Costa Rica

Overall Sentiment: -0.117979

Relevance: 0.473955

Country: South Africa

Overall Sentiment: -0.0550285

Relevance: 0.44584

Country: Britain

Overall Sentiment: 0.0840598

Relevance: 0.428884

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