Hooked on Mnemonics
Now you can be incomprehensible in several languages.
Wes Phillips
Are You Positive?
Neutrons aren't as simple as we thought.
Best Ad Ever?
It gets my vote!
Sonny's 77
Just to get you in the mood, if you're going to hear Sonny Rollins at Carnegie Hall tonight. Or, if like me, you won't be there, just as a treat, there are some new videos up on Rollins' website.
Music and the Abyss
Oliver Sacks on music and amnesia—and about just how puzzling cognition and memory truly are.
Spy vs Dancer?
The KGB's long war with Nureyev.
Not Just Legs
There's more to Diana Krall than just the sexy sizzle.
Alex the Parrot
"If Alex were a dog, he would be 189 years old. But he's a parrot and he's 27. In parrot years that's 27. Unless Alex chokes on a nut or falls out of his cage, he should live another 50 years. In a perfect world, healthy parrots can live 80 to 90 years."
Music and the Abyss
Oliver Sacks on music and amnesia—and about just how puzzling cognition and memory truly are.
The New Bold
Linguist John McWhorter casts a kindly eye on quotation marks conveying emphasis. Fine, but when he defends "impact" used as a verb, I suggest he goes too far. "Quite simply, the verbs view, silence, worship, copy, and outlaw all began as nouns. No one has a problem with them."