If you love books, here are 30 places that will surely make you happy (courtesy of Buzz Feed). One of the places highlighted in this list is the home of retired Johns Hopkins humanities Professor Richard Macksey, who has over the years amassed one of […]
This very interesting White House photo of edits made by the President before delivering his Inaugural Address (courtesy of James Fallows), gives the reader great insight into President Obama’s thinking, not to mention his editing abilities. As James Fallows points out, you can see how […]
From the NY Times:
The trailer is now finally out and it already has nearly 6 million views. Lincoln. Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tommy Lee Jones. Music by John Williams, written by Tony Kushner, and directed by Steven Spielberg. Opens November 9.
I recently learned of a great music series called Live From Daryl’s House, an informal hour where guests join Daryl Hall and his home and perform songs and enjoy food together. What a great show. Now I’m hooked. You can find an archive of past […]
New experiments show how much we’ve come to rely on the Internet to know things. From Big Think: The Internet as Hive Mind. “When we’re faced with hard questions, we don’t search our minds—we first think of the Web.” From NPR. Noted author Larry McMurtry […]
Bill Moyers responds to the deadly shooting in Colorado. My thoughts and prayers are with the victims’ families.
Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have found evidence of what looks to be the Higgs boson particle, or the so-called God particle that gives everything in the world its mass. Without it nothing, including us, would exist. It’s a big discovery. My wife’s cousin […]
Courtesy of Discover magazine: After 147 years, the doctor’s original account of the Abraham Lincoln assassination has been found by a researcher looking through the National Archives for other undiscovered writings by or about Lincoln. On April 14, 1865, Dr. Charles Leale, an army surgeon, […]
Lewis Lapham, editor of Lapham’s Quaterly, has written a thought-provoking essay in Mother Jones: How the Internet Fails Us. From his essay: “The times, like all others, can be said to be the best of times and the worst of times. The Internet can be […]