Wes Phillips

Stevie Nicks would like her forties back. "'It was eight completely wasted years of my life.' Here's the irony, she says: the 'powers that be' had sent her to the psychiatrist in order to keep her working, but the 'treatment' he gave her made work almost impossible. 'It's very Shakespearean. It's very much a tragedy.'"

On the disappearing great operatic diva.

Ants aren't smart. Ant colonies are. Now we're studying how that works.

Now this is cognitive research that is interesting! When we concentrate on tasks, we switch off our awareness of self—one of those tricky areas that defines us as human in the first place.Maybe the real Turing test is what computers do when we're not working 'em so hard.

Jeff Wong sends along a link to the Oxford University Press's "Ask the Experts" page. I like the "Jargon Buster" grammar feature, but this page on symbols is cool, too.

Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a tabletop particle accelerator that confirms and improves upon an earlier experiment conducted at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) that produced nuclear fusion at room temperature.

John Marks sends along this link to an Orthodox web radio station, which, as Monseigneur Marks points out, offers "more varieties of Chant than thou canst a stick shake at!"