“Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is one of classical music’s most famous works,” tweeted one of the mouth-breathers at Vox this morning. + more
I may have mentioned that I’m reading my way through The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert Caro’s (currently) four-volume biography + more
According to Open Culture, Ursula K. Le Guin had the best work schedule: I don’t know the degree to which + more
Speaking of music (see yesterday’s post for some of the year’s notable recordings), winners of the 2019–20 Ernst Bacon Memorial + more
I think we can all agree that, by and large, 2020 has sucked wet dog fur. BUT. There’s been some + more
“Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented culture, and doing nothing is hard to do. It’s + more
“Rather than a neat evolutionary line,” writes Florence Hazrat, “imagine punctuation developing as a rhizome, a horizontal mesh of practices, + more
My brother-in-law sent this, from Wikipedia, via email this morning… …with a question: “Is Donald Campbell the son of Malcom + more
Sure, things are weird right now. But it wasn’t all that long ago that they were—arguably, I suppose—even weirder. I’m + more
Not sure how I landed on this video—Twitter, maybe?—but after watching it I found myself on the Ant Lab YouTube + more
According to the fine folks at the Oxford English Dictionary, there are 171,476 English words currently in use. And not + more
From Scientific American, folks: “‘Oumuamua—a mysterious, interstellar object that crashed through our solar system two years ago—might in fact be + more
Just when I was starting to think that maybe—just maybe—millennials have been unfairly maligned, more evidence emerges that this generation + more
From Wesley McNair’s wonderful piece about the late poet Donald Hall and his assistant Kendel Currier, three things are abundantly + more
Before you take this advice seriously, ask yourself one question: Has the federal government ever—and I do mean ever—been right + more