Monthly Archives: September 2006

Hamlet

Performed by cats :-) Silly, of course. But it made my daughter laugh. Me, too: Hamlet: What’s the news? Rosencrantz: None, my lord, but that the world’s grown honest. Hamlet: Then is doomsday near . . . Technorati Tags: Friday … Continue reading

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Yodeling the Classics

I heard a cut from this 1997 CD, featuring Mary Schneider, Australia’s Queen of Yodeling, on PBS the other morning and realized that my admittedly puny CD collection had a GAPING hole that had to be filled pronto. I mean, … Continue reading

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Okay, sorry to have to break this to you

But B-movie biology just doesn’t hold up to the physics. The incredible shrinking man wouldn’t have had trouble wielding a needle to fight a spider. There’s no way Racquel could have manuevered her little ship in Fantastic Voyage. King Kong … Continue reading

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The art of motion

Via 2blowhards, a student short that explores stop motion photography. Filmed at the University of Rochester river campus :-) Technorati Tags: stop motion, film short

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They do it with . . . sand

I’ll never build a sand castle again. These sculptures are amazing. From the Vancouver Sun World Championships of Sand Sculpture Competition & Exhibition. Technorati Tags: sand sculpture

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Music is good for the brain

A kid’s brain, anyway. Researchers have found the first evidence that young children who take music lessons show different brain development and improved memory over the course of a year compared to children who do not receive musical training. The … Continue reading

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Everything you ever wanted to know about Dummies

That would be the Dummies “how to” book series. The only bad news: it’s a New York Times article so registration required. Technorati Tags: writing, books

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Settling oneself

When I was younger, I let my emotions drive my choices (often to my eventual sorrow, sigh) and I suppose I still do to some extent but at least now I make an effort to engage my emotional responses as … Continue reading

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Who talks more, men or women?

If you answered “women,” you need to read this. This topic is of ongoing interest at Mark Liberman’s Language Log blog; as he notes here: There certainly are psychological and neurological differences between men and women, sometimes big ones. But … Continue reading

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Katherine Anne Porter

On Bibliobuffet, Henry Carrigan has a review of Darlene Harbour Unrue’s 2005 biography of Porter, The Life of an Artist. Here’s the review. Carrigan calls the book “masterful.” I’m in. Technorati Tags: book review, literary biography

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