More Singing Mice
Here's the original article by Timothy Holy and Zhongsheng Guo. It includes pitch-shifted samples and acoustical analyses.
More Synaesthesia
Did Kandinsky hear his paintings?
More Weight!
I walked over to Giles Corey's cenotaphhe is of course, the sole "witch" not hung, but rather pressed to death by heaping large rocks upon him until he was crushed. It took three days. As Arthur Miller memorialized in The Crucible, his last words were, "More weight."
Most Accurate Watch Ever!
It's always right.
Most Popular Myths in Science
Of course, I'm linking to this one. For one thing, it's a list—and it's filled with useful information.
Most Teachers Dream of Being Rock Stars
But Damon Krukowski, drummer for Galaxie 500, has turned his back on the touring life to teach expository writing at Harvard. But that's just his day job—he still performs music around town with his wife as Damon & Naomi.
Move Along, Chum
Nothing to look at here, says Huckleberry.
Mozart's Widow: Photo A Hoax?
Several folks make the case—Agnes Selby, author of Constanze, Mozart's Beloved does so most emphatically. Sound And Fury has it all covered.
Mr. Jones: 1944–2007
The inspirationhttp://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200771113…; for Dylan's "Ballad of a Thin Man" died in November.
Ms. Ruth Brown!
If, when reading Ahmet Ertegun obituaries, you saw references to Atlantic Records as "the house that Brown built," and wondered why, here's why.