Wes Phillips

Robert P. Crease's articlehttp://physicsweb.org/articles/world/20/1/8/1">article; on the importance of letters between scientists in helping us appreciate the evolution of ideas planted the thought, but Adam Kirsch's review of Robert Frost's notebooks really has me wondering: Now that we communicate so much through email—and revise our drafts without saving them—will future scholars have to judge us only on our published copy?

Is there an anthropological record of a chimpanzee stone age?

That's pretty much what David Hewlett said. As a result, he made A Dog's Breakfast for less than a million—it's a long tail thang.

Here's something you probably never even knew existed: music librarian humor.

Neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran ponders self-awareness.

As Dave Barry is wont to say, The Singing Neanderthals would be a good name for a rock band, but it's a book by cognitive archeologist Steven Mithen, arging that language and music evolved from a common ancestor. He calls that ur-communication "Hmmmmm" (holistic, manipulative, multi-modal, musical, and memetic).

Doesn't this phiz look like it should be on a car hood?