Dogs Read Facial Expressions
Apes and wolves do not. Not news to any dog owner, although I cannot speak for ape or wolf owners.
Wes Phillips
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Meet Fred Franzia
Don't recognize the name? He's the guy who brought you Two Buck Chuck's. He 's a bit of a bully and he's crude—and, as Joel Stein notes, that's when someone with a notebook is following him around.
Not So Fine Print
Match the side-effects with the commonly prescribed drugs. I only scored 40%—and only that high because I had taken one of them. Kind of scary.
Pitchfork Gives Music a 6.8
"'Music's first offering, an eclectic, disparate, but mostly functional compendium of influences from 5000 B.C. to present day, hints that this trend's time may not only have fully arrived, but is already on the wane,' [editor in chief Ryan] Schreiber wrote. 'If music has any chance of keeping our interest, it's going to have to move beyond the same palatable but predictable notes, meters, melodies, tonalities, atonalities, timbres, and harmonies.'"
The Cat Ate my Pollock
I've been loving the soap opera epic of the Alex">http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/31/purported-pollock-paintings… Matter "Pollocks"currently on display at the McMullen">http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/09/02/did_pollock_paint_… Museum of Art.
Edgar, a Poet to a T
I grew up in Charlottesville, VA, where E.A. Poe briefly attended college without matriculating. I used to visit Poe's bedchamber, which has been preserved as a memorial,and gawp at artifacts that almost certainly had no connection to him. Somehow I had the impression that we Charlottesvillians appreciated his gothic world view more than other folks.
Are Ideologies Hard-Wired?
A study delves the link between political views and cognitive style.
Joyce Hatto
More on Hattogate. A lot more.
Bagheera's Bored
The squirrels are on strike. There's nothing to watch on window.
Huck Aces It
He does a perfect triple gainer—in his sleep.