Einstein and the Old One
Mark Mortimer's review of <I>Einstein and the Old One</I> makes an interesting point—just because we "know" stuff our ancestors didn't doesn't actually make us smarter. We "know" without comprehending.
Mark Mortimer's review of <I>Einstein and the Old One</I> makes an interesting point—just because we "know" stuff our ancestors didn't doesn't actually make us smarter. We "know" without comprehending.
The Philadelphia Orchestra, one of America's prestigious "Big Five" orchestras, has established its own <A HREF="http://www.thephiladelphiaorchestra.com/">digital online music store</A> to directly market its soundboard recordings of current Philadelphia Orchestra performances.
When most of us think about the folks who populate the high-end audio industry, we tend to conjure up the designers—the names above the titles, as it were. Or, in many cases, the names that <I>are</I> the titles: <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/688vandersteen">Richard Vandersteen</A>, <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/221">Jim Thiel</A>, Bill Conrad and Lew Johnson, Mike Creek, to name just a few.
I've always been partial to Rabelais' "Je m'en vais chercher un grand peut-être." (I am off in search of the great perhaps.)
Bagheera is outraged that I powered off her heated perch.
Huckleberry fails to see the appeal of a perfectly flat rug.
Discovery of a "hybrid" skeleton in Portugal has paleontologists speculating that it might be the result of Neanderthal/modern human mating, perhaps challenging the "out of Africa" scenario.
Mindless fun—and it's ed-u-ma-cational!
How sex, rum, and WWII ignited the fad that will not die.
How Matmos came to use an Enigma machine on <I>For Alan Turing</I>.