LATEST ADDITIONS

"I'm so bored," said Bagheera. "You know what to do."

A new feature for the blog: Every Thursday, I'll spotlight a recording of special merit—stuff that grabs me for both its content and its recording quality. Think of it as the return of Quarter Notes, sort of.

My definition of a brilliant book review is one that interests you in a subject you wouldn't have devoted five seconds to—interests you enough to spend many hours contemplating it.

"Nuclei, proteins and lipids move with bug-like authority, slithering, gliding and twisting through 3D space. 'All of those things that you see in the animation are going on in every one of your cells in your body all the time,' says XVIVO lead animator John Liebler, who worked with company partners David Bolinsky, XVIVO’s medical director, and Mike Astrachan, the project’s production director, to blend the academic data and narrative from Harvard’s faculty into a fluid visual interpretation."