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#SadTrombone

“Troubled by nervous energy and stress since he was young, an intermittent insomniac” who had “difficulty filtering noise and distractions + more

On Art, Artists, and “the Ecstatic State”

A year ago, I wrote about Keith Jarrett on the occasion of his seventy-fourth birthday. I don’t want to make + more

Fight! Fight!

“Quantum mechanics isn’t just an approximation of the truth,” writes Sean Carroll, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology, + more

Richard Wayne Penniman, RIP

There’s no shortage of obituaries on the late, great Little Richard—who died Saturday at 87—nor should there be for the + more

Friday Cheer

So. How about some good news for a change? First, you’ve no doubt heard that murder hornets have arrived and + more

Miscellany

If you, like me, are digging ESPN’s The Last Dance, you may be interested to know that the network is + more

“There once was a man from Nantucket…”

Yes. A thousand times, yes: Matthew Schneier reminds us that Now Is the Perfect Time to Memorize a Poem—because “it’s + more

Poetry Break

FEEL LIKE A BIRD May Swenson feel like A Bird understand he has no hand instead A Wing close-lapped mysterious + more

An Appeal

It’s obvious that our readers are more intelligent and better looking than the average Joe or Jane; it stands to + more

You’re Welcome, Everyone

For today’s post, I thought about drawing your attention to the Whitman County Historical Society Lost Apple Project. Then I + more

The Gift of Music

“When one of the greatest guitarists, musicians and composers of our times offers you a free new album during a + more

At the Frontiers of Science

Daniel T. Baldassarre, assistant professor of zoology at SUNY Oswego, is asking a very important question in the latest issue + more

Art in the Time of Coronavirus

I’m pretty late to the party, but may I recommend a film to y’all? The Assassination of Jesse James by + more

And Down the Rabbit Hole We Go…

So I get a regular email from Huckberry, which normally I trash without reading because it’s usually little more than + more

I, For One, Welcome Our New Fish Overlords

The description “a deep-sea fish with a transparent head and tubular eyes” doesn’t even begin to prepare you for the + more

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