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When Should You Spike a Good Story?
<I>The Morning News</I>' Clay Risen thinks the <I>LA Times</I> shouldn't have published Claire Hoffman's story on <I>Girls Gone Wild</I> sleazeball Joe Francis. Risen thinks Hoffman couldn't write objectively about a man who assaulted her.
Mathematical Representations of Musical Tunings
Does music represent the pleasure of counting without the burden of numbers? John S. Allen makes a strong case—sort of.
Under New York
Text and photos by Bob Sacha. "Looking beneath a city street is like peeking under your skin: the terrain upon which your well-being depends is so close, yet so full of secrets."
Even Yet Another (Yep, One More) List
This time <I>Science News</I>' late-summer science reading list. Lots of good stuff here, and, other than <I>Blink</I> and <I>The Wisdom of Crowds</I>, I haven't even heard of any of them.
A Powder Dusting of Audio Interest
<i>Your <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/080806expert/">enthusiastic response</a> has inspired Kristina to come out of blog-retirement. She could only stay away for an evening. Ladies and gentlemen, it seems she may be hooked. Any suggestions for an amp and CD player?<br></i>
–SM
The Time Fountain
My buddy Jeff Wong sent this little video along and I initially resisted posting it, primarily because I used to work in a light show that featured strobe light effects (ah, the '60s, I'm told I enjoyed them). We used to create lots of chaos with unsynchronized strobes moving in different planes, so I was blasé about <I>The Time Fountain</I>'s reversing time schtick.
Forget Fi
<I>Good Math, Bad Math</I> says phi is more fun. After all, "if you write φ as a continued fraction, it's [1;1,1,1,1...]; and if you write it as a continued square root, it's 1 + sqrt(1+sqrt(1+sqrt(1+sqrt(1...))))."
Watch Malaria At Work
I'm fascinated by how tiny little things affect world history—take the malaria parasite for instance. Forget the Black Death or the Influenza outbreak of 1917, Malaria has had a bigger impact on humanity than any other rampaging pathogen—yet, we still don't completely understand how it works.
Napoleonic Satires
As a fan of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin romances and Bernard Cornwell's <I>Sharpe's Rifles</I> novels, I'm a sucker for this type of collection.