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What the Songbird Told Me
Wes Phillips  |  Oct 09, 2007  |  0 comments
Is a single gene—the so-called FOXKP2—the reason why only humans have language?
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Archimedes and the Calculus
Wes Phillips  |  Oct 09, 2007  |  0 comments
A new research project highlights Archimedes' role in developing calculus.
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Brian Eno: Technology as a Tool
Wes Phillips  |  Oct 09, 2007  |  1 comments
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.
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Some Like it Even Hotter
Wes Phillips  |  Oct 09, 2007  |  0 comments
Some food scientists are saying that America's tastebuds aren't becoming more adventurous, they're wearing out as baby boomers age.
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Country Music in Black & White
Wes Phillips  |  Oct 08, 2007  |  0 comments
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.
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The Changing Music Industry
Wes Phillips  |  Oct 08, 2007  |  1 comments
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.
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Terry Pratchett Flow Chart
Wes Phillips  |  Oct 05, 2007  |  0 comments
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.
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Forget Phonics
Wes Phillips  |  Oct 05, 2007  |  1 comments
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."
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Bed Panther
Wes Phillips  |  Oct 05, 2007  |  0 comments
Bagheera is convinced that her ancestors on the savannah hunted the colossal wooly queen-sized bed.
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C'Mon, You Know You Want To!
Wes Phillips  |  Oct 05, 2007  |  0 comments
Huckleberry tries to smirk some extra kibble out of me.
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The Snob Argument—Again
Wes Phillips  |  Oct 04, 2007  |  0 comments
It's time for a new round of "Shakespeare debunking," arguing that the son of an illiterate laborer could never have written works so full of science, history, legal shenanigans, and aristocratic mores—that it must have been a cabal, one that included at least a few nobles.
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21st Century Airships
Wes Phillips  |  Oct 04, 2007  |  0 comments
I'm a sucker for blimps, so I dream of a day when our skies are filled by them. Air & Space looks at the technological challenges and possibilities of that eventuality.
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Stimmung!
Wes Phillips  |  Oct 04, 2007  |  0 comments
Paul Hillier decided to record Stockhausen's Stimmung. The composer had a few few thoughts.
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Filming Bob
Wes Phillips  |  Oct 04, 2007  |  0 comments
Murray Lerner spent 1963–1965 filming Bob Dylan, "a study of a major artist in transition." Soon, we'll finally see it.
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Islam & Science
Wes Phillips  |  Oct 03, 2007  |  0 comments
Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy gives us a fascinating overview of Islam's long and variable engagement with science. "The question I want to pose—perhaps as much to myself as to anyone else—is this: With well over a billion Muslims and extensive material resources, why is the Islamic world disengaged from science and the process of creating new knowledge?"
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