After the scrubbing of this morning's Ares I-X, this just made my day.
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A Review of Jay-Z's New Album...Cover
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Track:The Blueprint 3
The Last Psychiatrist proclaims "Jay-Z Is a Genius." Q: What do the three red lines mean? A: Wrong.The three red lines mean "3," as in "Blueprint 3." Ok, so why aren't they blue, like Blueprint? You should now start to suspect that what the lines mean isn't the right question (the medium is the meaning.) The question is, why are they there?Look at the cover again.[A making-of video] shows the m...
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Sagan, Hawking, and Auto-Tune
Seed's Daily Zeitgeist brings us an Auto-Tuned Carl Sagan, who sounds surprisingly like Kermit the Frog...
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Double-Decker Galactic Incredibleness
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First, from the Bad Astromomy Blog, a little more "holy crap!" for your life:The full size image is a whopping 7227 x 3847 pixels! Warning: you'll lose an hour of your life gaping at it.That, duh, is Saturn, taken by the ever-amazing Cassini spacecraft. It's actually 75 different exposures stitched together, and was taken on August 12, just a little over a day after Saturnian equinox, when the ...
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Ancient Sudanese Music of Healing Threatens Egyptian Orthodoxy
From Prospect magazine:The rango is an old Sudanese xylophone, its wooden blocks attached to curving gourds that, the musicians believe, contain the souls of the instrument's previous masters. The instrument and its music are a bridge between the visible world and the spirit world—inhabited by beings such as Yawra Bey, the sword-wielding, dandyish king of the spirits and Lady Racosha, a beautif.
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Life After a Brain Hemorrhage
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The Guardian shares excerpts from a new book by Edwyn Collins's wife about life after his brain hemorrhage:The way it was for Edwyn, for Edwyn and me, was deeper and stranger. Before we could even think about his cleverness, his fabulous sarcasm, his highly-developed sense of the absurd (where they had gone? Were they coming back?), we had to wrestle with questions of simple identity.It's impos...
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What's Your Favorite Colour, Baby?
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You know, it is difficult to describe what a band or album may mean to you without sounding like an absolute stalker. So when we got the chance to meet Living Colour after their show at the World Cafe Live, the best I could squeak out to Mr. Calhoun was how thrilled I was that I had the opportunity to finally see them live. (He seemed to appreciate it.) And I mumbled to Vernon Reid that he's "s...
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Metallica Is Monkey Music?
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From the Guardian:Researchers composed "monkey melodies" to investigate whether non-human primates are capable of responding to music with the same emotions as people.They found that while monkeys were left cold by human music, they reacted emotionally to tunes that incorporated features commonly heard in monkey calls, such as rising and falling tones.In the study, 14 cotton-top tamarins were p...
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