Forget Phonics
Make mine music: "Music training, with its pervasive effects on the nervous system's ability to process sight and sound, may be more important for enhancing verbal communication skills than learning phonics."
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Terry Pratchett Flow Chart
My admiration or Terry Pratchett is no secret, but to the uninitiated, an <I>ouvre</I> approaching 50 books must seem intimidating—not to mention indicative of a less-than-stellar consistency.
Re: That Radiohead Thing
Regarding <a href="http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2007/10/01/radiohead/">that Radiohead thing</a> that everyone's talking about, which strikes me as being a whole lot like <a href="http://www.stereophile.com/news/1205magnatune/index.html">that Magnatune thing</a> we covered a couple of years back, I refer all dear readers to my brother, <a href="http://themultipurposesolution.blogspot.com/2007/10/they-should-just-ge… Teacher</a>.
When all my dime dancin' is through...
Steely Dan’s <I>Aja</I> isn’t exactly jazz, but given (a) the presence of such jazz luminaries as Wayne Shorter and Victor Feldman, (b) the jazz sensibility of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, (c) my blogger’s prerogative to step outside genres once in a while, and (d) the fact that my host, <I>Stereophile</I>, is, after all, an audiophile magazine, I feel entitled to mention—and wholeheartedly recommend—Cisco Music's LP
<A HREF= http://store.acousticsounds.com/browse_detail.cfm?Title_ID=39750 >
reissue</A>.
Filming Bob
Murray Lerner spent 1963–1965 filming Bob Dylan, "a study of a major artist in transition." Soon, we'll finally see it.
Stimmung!
Paul Hillier decided to record Stockhausen's <I>Stimmung</I>. The composer had a few few thoughts.
21st Century Airships
I'm a sucker for blimps, so I dream of a day when our skies are filled by them. <I>Air & Space</I> looks at the technological challenges and possibilities of that eventuality.
The Snob Argument—Again
It's time for a new round of "Shakespeare debunking," arguing that the son of an illiterate laborer could never have written works so full of science, history, legal shenanigans, and aristocratic mores—that it must have been a cabal, one that included at least a few nobles.
Who Wrote the Book of Jungle?
Richard Sherman strolls down memory lane, telling us what it was like to work on the last Walt Disney animated feature, <I>The Jungle Book</I>. Well, there were more cartoons from Disney, but <I>TJB</I> was Walt's last.
Girl Genius
I wasted—er, enjoyably spent—the weekend reading Phil and Kaja Foglio's <I>Girl Genius</I> online. Now I've ordered the printed books, and I recommend you do the same. Here's a taste of the Oz meeets steampunk comic. Order all six volumes—or spend the next three days online. At which point, you'll order all six volumes anyway, so save a step.