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.

You know how all of those articles about Harry Smith's <I>Anthology of American Folk Music</I> identified him as an "experimental filmmaker"? Well, <I>Early Abstractions</I> was one of those experiments.
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My definition of a brilliant book review is one that interests you in a subject you wouldn't have devoted five seconds to&mdash;interests you enough to spend many hours contemplating it.

Hours of mindful fun!

"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."

Sad, but oh so true.

If you know that <I>CMS</I> means <I>The Chicago Manual of Style</I>, you didn't need that exclamation point. If you don't, a hundred of 'em wouldn't make the news exciting.