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So, I was taking a trip down memory lane (via a data backup CD created 8 years ago) and found this poem saved up for later reading. Not sure why I had this particular one saved. Anyho, here it is.
My young son asks me
Bertolt Brecht
My young son asks me: Must I learn mathematics?
What is the use,…
WNYC - Radio Lab: Musical Language (April 21, 2006)
Check out at least the first four minutes of this. You'll learn first-hand that a looped recording of speech takes on a musical quality, to the point where you can't hear it as anything but song. Wow. (via CV)
Homo floresiensis: Two Years Out…
At last, word of Phil's secret media project has leaked out: he's got a Discovery Channel show about how the universe is out to get him, called Bad Universe. It's got debunkings of astronomical myths and bad movie tropes, and most importantly, it's got explosions.
I'll watch that.
(via Skepchick)
It's a Submissive Jesus figure — torture him by twisting his crown of thorns, and he'll promise you anything. At last, a godhead that actually responds!
(via the J-Walk Blog)