Rondo Rocks!
RealTraps's">http://www.realtraps.com/">RealTraps's Ethan Winer has condensed what must have been thousands of hours of work into one six minute video.
Rosen/Mozart
In my opinion, Charles Rosen's The Classical Style contained some of the most cogent thinking on Mozart ever written, so when he calls Hermann Abert's W. A. Mozart "the best book on Mozart ever written," I listen.
Rosie Becomes Reality
I really think we better institute those three laws now.
Round the World on a Rat
Ian Pindar reviews William Rosen's Justianian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe, in which a "flea looms as large as an emperor." Sound like an unlikely read? Apparently not.
Royal Society Rocks!
I am in nerd heaven! The Royal Society has just put all of its journals online, going back to volume one in 1665. Read Robert Boyle's "Observables upon a monstrous head," Ben Franklin's kite experiments, Edmund Stone's invention of aspirin, Daines Barrington's observation of a "remarkable young musician" (Mozart), William Henry Fox's first accounts of photography, and Watson and Crick's discovery of DNA.
Royale with Cheese
Pulp Fiction with robots.
Rubber Duckie, I Track You
Sitting in Hong Kong harbor one afternoon, I watched container ship after container ship set sail across the Pacific, piled unbelievably high with cargo modules. I asked my host, "How can that be stable?"
Rube Goldberg Eat Your Heart Out!
Jeff Wong sends along the following video, noting, "A DIY book, a yo-yo, a Hot Wheels car, stacks of CDs, packing tape... what more could you ask for?"
Rule #1 for Peaceful Coexistence
Never go to sleep mad at one another.
Rules For Cats
Rules? We don't need no rules! Oh, you mean these are our secret laws? Nevermind.