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Special Exits
Overnight I read, in two sittings, Joyce Farmer's Special Exits. This is a graphic novel (or memoir, though the names are changed) about Farmer's father and stepmother who grow old together,...
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The Swerve
Having read all the magazines I brought along to New Orleans, I was forced to purchase something for the trip home, Fortunately, I found The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt,...
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Just love this: 14 J.S. Bach canons of increasing complexity built around the first eight fundamenta notes of the Goldberg Variations, lovingly displayed in an animation that both translates Bach's...
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Charles Irwin Weiner, 1931-2012
My father-in-law Charlie Weiner died on Saturday. He was 80, and having an extended stay in the village of Eyeries, Ireland with his wife, JoAnn Hughes.Charlie was a remarkable guy, and I'm deeply sad...
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David Smith, again
I had earlier posted a video about the remarkable work of David Smith, an ornamental glass artist whose intricate creations are both aesthetic wonders and masterpieces of an obscure craft. Today, I...
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Dances with Meteors
Tom Munnecke is a photographer (among other pursuits) who went to Joshua Tree National Monument to photograph the Lyrid meteor shower. He captured this great image with a woman who wandered by at 2:00 AM.
View ArticlePrisoner's Dilemma gamed
This is a remarkable six minutes, thre final round of a British game show, "Golden Balls." Please watch before reading my comments below:So, I found this on Boing Boing, which led to a blog post with...
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Sic transit Venus
A handy way to have some front yard science to see the transit of Venus: tripod, binoculars, white cardboard (one fitted around the eyepieces of the binoculars to provide shade on the other, the...
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Woody Guthrie's Songbook
Somewhere in the late 1940s, Woody Guthrie gave his mimeographed 25 Cent Songbook to Charlie Weiner, my late father-in-law. Typewritten and decorated with Woody's cartoons, the songbook contains ten...
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This blog is moving!
On the off chance you are subscribed to this blog, it is moving to scottunder.com/culchI'm consolidating my blog into my main site, which uses Wordpress. All the posts are already there, but I'll leave...
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