Metabolic Ecology
Is there a unified field theory for biology?
Wes Phillips
I Give you the Pittuba!
Tone and intonation are key—as in any fretless instrument.
Ornette Coleman Wins a Pulitzer
We'd say we told you Sound Grammar was a winner, but we were really just echoing what Fred Kaplan said. His essay on the record is worth reading again—or for the first time, if you didn't take our word for it the first time around.
Say What?
The Fraunhofer Institute is working on an active soundproof window that's "particularly effective at frequencies of 50–1000Hz." I want one now—but it'll be four years before they make it to market.
Validating Newton's Second Law
Apparently, Newton, not those modifiers, was right all along. F=ma totally rules!
I Want to Buy a Grammophone
Rowan Atkinson demonstrates what happened to the hi-fi industry.
My Generation
"Documentary-maker Tim Samuels has been all over Britain recruiting isolated and lonely old people - those who can't leave their flats or who are stuck in rubbish care homes. The finale of the show is this group of lonely old people coming together to stick it back to the society that's cast them aside - by forming a rock troupe and trying to storm into the pop charts."
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Jacques Brel Is Not Alive or Well
But he's still amazing, as this subdued (for him) performance of "Le Moribond" proves amply. Leave it to Brel to put this much life into a song about dying. Forget "Seasons of the Sun," this was the original and still the greatest.
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Get Your Morris On!
Four Tet has done something I would have thought impossible: produce an entertaining Morris dance video.
I Wasn't Expecting That
Not that I had any idea what Sigur Ros' "Hoppipolla" was about (actually, I never know what any Sigur Ros song is about), but this video wouldn't have even made the top 20 possibilities.
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