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Braces and Virtual Reality

I had braces in high school. And I loved them. Every day I could see my teeth moving from huge and bad + more

Poetry Break

CEREMONY Richard Wilbur A striped blouse in a clearing by Bazille Is, you may say, a patroness of boughs Too + more

Contest!

Last week I got everyone to take an interactive version of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory—a test developed in 1979 “for the + more

Prove it!

Soon, Microsoft is going to be making things easier for all of us. “By designing with the disabled in mind, we + more

Quote of the Day

“After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning + more

The Cookbook

In my family, when you get married, you get a cookbook. Not just any cookbook. The cookbook. It’s filled with recipes from my mother’s side + more

Untranslatable Puppy Names

After becoming frustrated by the lack of help received by the internet in naming my new puppy (oh yeah, did + more

The Only Time Verbing Is a Good Thing

Back when I was a callow youth and working in one of those fast-paced, too-hip-for-words advertising agencies that looks more + more

Look on my Intellect, ye Dummies, and despair!

So. According to science, I’m “intellectually superior” to my coworkers, with “amazing ideas constantly running through [my] genius brain….” And that’s + more

Why Musicians Need Philosophy

In this fascinating piece published by the Future Symphony Institute, Roger Scruton posits that “it is precisely the absence of philosophical reflection that + more

David Bowie, RIP

I picked up David Bowie’s latest, Blackstar, on Friday—the day of its release—and the missus and I spent the better part of the + more

Poetry Break

POSTSCRIPT Seamus Heaney And some time make the time to drive out west Into County Clare, along the Flaggy Shore, + more

Today in History

Pamela, Lady Campbell, to Emily Eden, January 7, 1821: “I cannot bear Scotland in spite of every natural beauty, the + more

Happy New Year, Everyone

A couple of months ago, I had my first Trinidad Sour at Ruins—hands-down the best place in all of Spokane + more

Miscellany—and More Music

Back from an ever-so-brief blogging hiatus, we bring you the latest from helveticka‘s global news bureaus: The true story of Roland + more

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