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Wonders Never Cease

Yesterday I saw a dude riding a skateboard—downhill, mind you—while playing a banjo and smoking a cigarette. And he wasn’t + more

Monday Ramblings

“The first note known to have sounded on earth,” writes Mathew Lyons, “was an E natural. It was produced some + more

Miscellany: The Glorious, the Sublime, and the Cool Edition

Il glorioso: Project C-90, the ultimate audiotape guide. Il sublime: Promises, the new album by Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, and + more

“Now with more MOLECULES!”

This morning on Twitter I saw an ad for Chipotle’s new “hand-crafted quesadilla.” No, I’m not making this up. It’s + more

On My Bookshelf

I’ve been reading A Year with Swollen Appendices: Brian Eno’s Diary by, well…Brian Eno. It’s literally his diary, but from + more

Six of One, Half a Dozen of the Other

On the one hand, 61 percent of Americans reported undesired weight gain during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Check out the average + more

Just a Puff Between Your Cheek and…Cheek

The practice of smoke enemas—something that “early modern Europeans in particular took up with a surprising degree of enthusiasm”—was apparently + more

One of the Greats

Somebody check the temperature in Hell. Rolling Stone has actually published something worth reading: For a brief moment in the + more

Curmudgeonly Post of the Week

In an article about my favorite record label over at City Journal, Ted Gioia closes with an astute observation about + more

Miscellany

In the 1930s, the USSR began building hundreds of lighthouses along its 3,500-mile arctic coastline. Eventually, neither keepers nor electricity + more

Preach, Sister!

More than five years have passed since Sandy Hingston spoke truth to power: Daylight Saving Time is killing us. It increases + more

And You Thought We Were the Advanced Species

Dr. Robert J. White: “Someday, God willing, medical technology will have sufficiently advanced—and the line between research and ethics appropriately + more

Lock Your Doors and Hide Your Daughters

I’m not entirely sure what sort of incantation is required to change the molecular structure of stone—or whether the boulders + more

Quote of the Day

This seems particularly appropriate for the last weekend in February (the worst of all the months, it’s only redeeming feature + more

Timewaster

Behold the Theremix—a “cross-platform virtual theremin” created in celebration of the 100th anniversary of  Léon Theremin’s invention. Best part about + more

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