Sitting in Professor Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli's office at MIT, I forget for a few minutes what I am there for. We are discussing her passion for opera, and how she almost pursued a career in the arts as a young girl.

A moment later, though, with a seamless transition she starts talking about climate change, and all of a sudden, her down-to-earth, somehow reassuring central Italian accent switches to a more professional, almost Venetian tone: "Warming is unequivocal, global warming, that is!"

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Fonte: Bostoniano