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Alex the Parrot
Wes Phillips  |  Sep 17, 2007  |  0 comments
"If Alex were a dog, he would be 189 years old. But he's a parrot and he's 27. In parrot years that's 27. Unless Alex chokes on a nut or falls out of his cage, he should live another 50 years. In a perfect world, healthy parrots can live 80 to 90 years."
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Music and the Abyss
Wes Phillips  |  Sep 17, 2007  |  0 comments
Oliver Sacks on music and amnesia—and about just how puzzling cognition and memory truly are.
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Music and the Abyss
Wes Phillips  |  Sep 17, 2007  |  1 comments
Oliver Sacks on music and amnesia—and about just how puzzling cognition and memory truly are.
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Not Just Legs
Wes Phillips  |  Sep 17, 2007  |  0 comments
There's more to Diana Krall than just the sexy sizzle.
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Spy vs Dancer?
Wes Phillips  |  Sep 17, 2007  |  0 comments
The KGB's long war with Nureyev.
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Is It Safe?
Wes Phillips  |  Sep 14, 2007  |  0 comments
Bagheera thinks the space between the preamp and the upper shelf is exactly cat-sized.
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You're Still Here?
Wes Phillips  |  Sep 14, 2007  |  0 comments
Huckleberry thinks I don't have sufficient respect for nap time.
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The New Bold
Wes Phillips  |  Sep 14, 2007  |  0 comments
Linguist John McWhorter casts a kindly eye on quotation marks conveying emphasis. Fine, but when he defends "impact" used as a verb, I suggest he goes too far. "Quite simply, the verbs view, silence, worship, copy, and outlaw all began as nouns. No one has a problem with them."
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Bees on a Drowsy Day
Wes Phillips  |  Sep 13, 2007  |  0 comments
Chet Raymo manages to coax an entire essay out of a description of a kiss: "The way bees on a drowsy day suck honey from fuchsia."
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Dark Star
Wes Phillips  |  Sep 13, 2007  |  1 comments
Universe Today has posted a photo of a pulsar eating a star. Well, I'd never seen that before.
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Survivor's Story
Wes Phillips  |  Sep 13, 2007  |  1 comments
Stevie Nicks would like her forties back. "'It was eight completely wasted years of my life.' Here's the irony, she says: the 'powers that be' had sent her to the psychiatrist in order to keep her working, but the 'treatment' he gave her made work almost impossible. 'It's very Shakespearean. It's very much a tragedy.'"
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Oh the Ironing
Wes Phillips  |  Sep 13, 2007  |  0 comments
I think this is a not so subtle ruse to get guys to iron. If so, good job.
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32 Bars of Nothing
Wes Phillips  |  Sep 12, 2007  |  0 comments
Moises Kaufman has written 33 Variations, a play that explores Beethoven's obsession with Diabelli's inane little waltz. Sounds worth seeing—or you could buy this.
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A Dictionary You Can Trust!
Wes Phillips  |  Sep 12, 2007  |  0 comments
Word!
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Bring Back Personal, Individual Embarrassment
Wes Phillips  |  Sep 12, 2007  |  0 comments
Euan Ferguson took the Tube last week. "Only three stops on the Piccadilly line between Knightsbridge and the centre of town, and I would have got there more quickly, pleasantly, and safely by crawling backwards through the linking sewers with a twitching rat in my mouth and open bleeding weals on my bare backside."
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