Famous Last Words
I've always been partial to Rabelais' "Je m'en vais chercher un grand peut-être." (I am off in search of the great perhaps.)
Wes Phillips
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You Turned the Amp Off?
Bagheera is outraged that I powered off her heated perch.
But I Like It Rumpled!
Huckleberry fails to see the appeal of a perfectly flat rug.
New Fossil
Discovery of a "hybrid" skeleton in Portugal has paleontologists speculating that it might be the result of Neanderthal/modern human mating, perhaps challenging the "out of Africa" scenario.
How Common is Your Surname in America?
Mindless fun—and it's ed-u-ma-cational!
Tiki Tiki Tiki
How sex, rum, and WWII ignited the fad that will not die.
Crypto-Musicology
How Matmos came to use an Enigma machine on For Alan Turing.
Music Training Boosts the Brain
As the US eliminates music education from its curriculum, we begin to see proof that music has "real" benefits. I thought that exposing kids to beauty and greatness was enough, but what do I know?
Alex Ross on Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
The name of the essay is "Fervor," and that's what Ross writes with. If you can read the last paragraph of this tribute to Ms. Hunt Lieberson without tearing up, you have my condolences.
Freewheeling Outtakes
Holy moly! An Aquarium Drunkard has posted an entire album's worth of outtakes from the 1962 The Freewheeling Bob Dylan sessions. That's 25 tracks—cancel work for today!