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Miscellany

Lionel Shriver on the menace of “semantic drift.” Kevin Dettmar reports from The World of Bob Dylan Symposium, a four-day + more

Bang a Gong

“Creating a Gong,” according to Paiste, “is a dedication to the deeper meaning of the structured, focused vibrations which unfold + more

A Fragile State

Apart from being a talented designer, our own Steven Kutsch is an amateur mountaineer, recovering Red Bull addict, and Saw + more

Shots Fired in the Culture War

People of a certain age will no doubt remember this stunt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1CP1751wJA That was forty years ago today. But because + more

Quote of the Day

The trouble with the contemporary generation is that it has not read the minutes of the last meeting. Richard Weaver + more

Teamwork

This short clip serves as a welcome reminder that (1) nobody works in isolation, and (2) we all need an + more

Miscellany (with a Couple of Recommendations)

So this story about the pay gap between women’s soccer players, gender discrimination, and unequal pay is interesting. Not, of + more

Burn It All to the Ground

The folks at More in Common just released the results of a study that “explores how Americans tend to have + more

Poetry Break

from BROKEDOWN PALACE Robert Hunter River gonna take me Sing me sweet and sleepy Sing me sweet and sleepy all + more

More Bad News

As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, I’m sure that none of you will be shocked to learn that women rate + more

Yes! I’m a Victim!

A study published nearly 20 years ago found that attractive children and adults were not only judged more positively than + more

How Much Radiation Is Too Much?

When I was a kid, my stepdad kept a spinthariscope in his sock drawer.* And every once in a while + more

Miscellany

Sorry, but there’s no such thing as a photographic memory, you can’t learn while you sleep, and multi-tasking is impossible. + more

Fat Tuesday

After studying several instances of what we now call “spontaneous human combustion,” French agronomist Pierre-Aimé Lair (1769-1853) discovered that most + more

Some Reading for the Long Weekend

I’m out early tomorrow, so here’s an assignment and a recommendation, in that order: Caitrin Keiper’s “Do Elephants Have Souls?” + more

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