Did you know that Theodor Geisel took his pen name – Dr. Seuss – from his mother’s maiden name? Neither + more
Did you know that Theodor Geisel took his pen name – Dr. Seuss – from his mother’s maiden name? Neither + more
For Deadheads only: Robert Hunter, The Giant’s Harp, and a Terrapin multiverse? Just because: A stacked bar chart of the + more
“We are, all of us, office babies,” writes Madeleine Aggeler, “and exclamation points are the written equivalent of child-proof bumper + more
AI-generated jazz? It’s apparently a thing now: DeepJazz is a 2016 project by Princeton computer science student Ji-Sung Kim that spews + more
This is for all you graphic designers out there. Truman Capote, in a 1968 Playboy interview: “I’ve never known anybody altogether + more
Good news for all you minions of Mephistopheles (Beelzebub believers? Lucifer lovers? Beasts of Baphomet?): The IRS has granted tax-exempt + more
According to Valorie N. Salimpor, et al., The Rewarding Aspects of Music Listening Are Related to Degree of Emotional Arousal. + more
What a stupid time to be alive – as, it turns out, the prophets foretold. First, sports teams are dropping + more
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other + more
MID-MOUNTAIN DIALOGUE Li Po you ask my purpose roosting in jade peaks smiling yet without reply heart at self ease + more
The headline of Matthew Shaer’s article over at Vulture says it all. “The Invention of the ‘Salvator Mundi’: Or, How + more
I don’t get particularly vexed over politics. I don’t complain about the weather. And even though millennials should all be + more
Several years ago, Pitchfork ranked the top 100 albums of the 1980s. Overall, I thought it was a pretty good + more
Over at the New Yorker, Douglas Preston writes about a young paleontologist who “may have discovered a record of the + more