As Pratchett fans know, that's not so. He just keeps getting better and better. So, how to enter his fascinating web of Discworld novels? L-space suggests several access points, which are logical and spot-on. I usually tell folks to start with Guards, Guards and the tales of Ankh Morpork's City Watch, but L-space (a deep Pratchett reference in itself) suggests several threads that make as much sense.
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My admiration or Terry Pratchett is no secret, but to the uninitiated, an ouvre approaching 50 books must seem intimidating—not to mention indicative of a less-than-stellar consistency.
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."
Bagheera is convinced that her ancestors on the savannah hunted the colossal wooly queen-sized bed.
The sun was rising and the air was cool. Autumn had finally arrived. It would be a few more hours before the Mets game started. I sat down and began to listen.
The Aperion Intimus 532s were already in place, so I decided to start with them. They use a 1" ferrofluid-cooled silk dome tweeter and a 5.25" mineral-filled polypropylene midrange driver. The tweeter's ferrofluid cooling is meant to provide a smooth response with a natural, distortion-free sound, while the mid-woofer's mineral-filled polypropylene is said to offer resonance dampening and the ability to handle the…
Louis Armstrong's last LP was contemporary country music, He was asked if he was making a statement by recording what was then considered white, working class music. Silly question—Armstrong recorded with Jimmie Rodgers, after all.
"There’s no such thing as black man’s music and white man’s music, as far as I’m concerned. It’s all music, daddy. Now that’s putting it in black and white. It’s all music. It’s all about love."
Yes, all of us chattering classes spent the weekend, um, chattering about Radiohead's shocker, but this article in The Telegraph may be the best I've seen. Its yearly sales breakdown and record company revenues charts provide some historical context.
Is a single gene—the so-called FOXKP2—the reason why only humans have language?
A new research project highlights Archimedes' role in developing calculus.
Yesterday's New York Times had a review of Robert Wyatt's new Comicopera by Ben Ratliff that observed that it included "Brian Eno doing whatever it is that Brian Eno does." That sums up Squelchy's role about as well as it can be done.
But just in case you're wondering what that is, here are some of Eno's thoughts on the subject—even at 10 years on, they're worth reading.