Dare to be Dumb!
Feel confused by the pace of scientific progress? Ah grasshopper, that is but the first step on the path to enlightenment.
Dark Chocolate "Good for the Heart"
My wife has suspected this for years.
Dark Matter We Hardly Knew Ye
Over at NewScientist, there's an article on an alternate gravity theory called scalar-tensor-vector gravity (STVG), which seems to have an edge on Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND). Which one meshes best with the data? Why the one that contains quantum, of course! Well, kinda sorta.
Dark Star
Universe Today has posted a photo of a pulsar eating a star. Well, I'd never seen that before.
Darwinian Esthetics?
Are we hardwired to appreciate certain landscapes,stories, foods, and experiences? Denis Dutton argues that culture is not the whole story of art. Interesting essay, but this is an argument that's going to take a lot more space to make. I'm waiting for the book—but this article makes me want to read it.
Data Can Now Be Stored on Paper!
Despite the Oh, really? hed, this is kind of a fascinating article.
Data Mining
When I was a corporate speechwriter, I wrote a speech for the head of the "research" division. He bragged that his store could track customers so accurately through their purchases that he could send targeted sales supplements to expecting parents, in some cases, before the wife informed her husband she was pregnant.
Date With Dizzy
This is a great little feature by John Hubley, starring Dizzy Gillespie's quintet. Follow the external link for the back story.
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David Byrne's DMCA Rant
I love Radio DB and I rave about it all the time. Basically, Byrne programs about two hours of streaming music, which he changes each month—usually thematically linked—and I usually end up buying one or two (or more) of the discs he streams from.
David Remnick: Editor
There's a nice interview with New Yorker editor Remnick in The Independent. As a writer, I suppose I should mention how much I identify with all kinds of questions of craft revealed here, but, really, what I most identified with was his anecdote about listening to Bob Dylan records and discovering T. S. Eliot and Rimbaud.