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It’s only rock and roll…
Special bonus: the first known footage of Jimi Hendrix As we tap our toes, we might recall that today is the birthday of the intellectual Father of Rock and Roll– the Father of the Age of Reason and...
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Bazinga!…
To Whom It May Concern: I gave my lawyer instructions to release this message after my death. A joke I concocted when I was a kid has gone way, way too far. The most important thing you should know is...
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“Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all”*…
German artist Ralf Baecker gives technology a life of its own. His new piece Irrational Computing, which debuts June 10 at the International Triennial of New Media Art, use semiconductor crystals...
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“Truth at 24 frames per second”*…
Freedocumentaries.org streams full-length documentary films free of charge, with no registration needed. For several films, we even offer the ability to watch trailers or to download the actual film....
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“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most...
Discover a new book every time you open a new tab: add 100 Million Books to your browser. * Charles William Eliot ### As we turn the page, we might recall that it was on this date in 1717 that...
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“How does it happen that trade, which after all is nothing more than the...
Expandable version here The map above is probably the most detailed map of Medieval Trade Routes in Europe, Asia and Africa in the 11th and 12th centuries you can find online. It includes major and...
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“Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious”*…
Jan Steen, “The Merry Family,” 1668 The governing elites of ancient and medieval Europe were not greatly hospitable to humor. From the earliest times, laughter seems to have been a class affair,...
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“To sleep, perchance to dream”*…
On a typical workday morning, if you’re like most people, you don’t wake up naturally. Instead, the ring of an alarm clock probably jerks you out of sleep. Depending on when you went to bed, what...
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“When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water”*…
The dangers of environmental pollution receive a lot of attention nowadays, particularly in the developing world, and with good reason. Air quality indices are dismal and worsening in many places,...
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“The merit of all things lies in their difficulty”*…
Francesco Libetta tackles the toughest… Critic Harold C. Schonberg called Leopold Godowsky’s Studies on Chopin’s Études “the most impossibly difficult things ever written for the piano”; Godowsky said...
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“A man will turn over half a library to make one book.”*…
Source: Takram Continuing yesterday’s focus on books… Marioka Shoten is a bookstore that sells only one book at a time (but sells multiple copies of it) for a week. The bookseller Yoshiyuki Morioka...
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“Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of...
The second law of thermodynamics– asserting that the entropy of a system increases with time– is among the most sacred in all of science, but it has always rested on 19th century arguments about...
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“If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of...
What’s in a name?… The goal of this article is to promote clear thinking and clear writing among students and teachers of psychological science by curbing terminological misinformation and confusion....
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