The Art of Deception: When Kindness is a Lure to Betrayal
Over at NPR, Barbara King has a post about the mostly amusing deceptions that chimpanzee mothers sometimes engage in. It’s a nice post that includes an am...
Category: Side Tracks
There is no better early morning music than Red Headed Stranger
I’m beginning to think all the best Wikipedia entries are about pop music. Red Headed Stranger is a 1975 album by American outlaw country singer Willie Nelson. ...
Can a Movie About a Library Be Awesome?
Fixin’ to find out. Cold Storage Teaser Trailer from metaLAB(at)Harvard on Vimeo. Out at the Harvard Depository in Southborough, Massachusetts there are m...
Baby Blues, Sugar Grumps, Cannibal Writers, & Other Reading
T. Delene Beeland’s essay on post-baby depression is among of the best such I’ve read. I judged myself against other mothers. It seemed everyone cared fo...
Tracking The Mystery Plane in Iran
The tracking of planes has become a kind of global sport, as largely amateur photographers post thousands of images showing arrivals and departures in their att...
Gay Genes, Death Papers, Parasites, Neanderthals, & Anja Niedringhaus. My Reads of the Week
The world has lost a truly splendid photographer — Anja Niedringhaus, murdered this week in Afghanistan. This was a determined, brave journalist and an unbeliev...
Selfie Showdown: Colin Powell v Stanley Kubrick
Making the rounds today is the highly charming selfie of a young Colin Powell: Powell’s photo has that good power a selfie can have: a picture not just of...
Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, and Time’s Vain Delusions
A couple weeks ago I found myself staring at an undersized image on my iPhone: the wee tiny cover of Neil Young’s 1979 album Rust Never Sleeps, which I was list...
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Aglitter This Week: Paleo Poo, Contentious Comb Jellies, Dead Butterflies, et alia.
Some I read and liked, others just look good. Not news: Most of us carry Neanderthal genes. News: Collectively we carry about 20 percent of the Neanderthal̵...
If Birds Left Trails Like Tracer Bullets, It’d Look Like This
Dennis Hlynsky, a photographer/filmmaker and professor at Rhode Island Institute of Design, has been filming various bunches of birds — murmurations of starling...