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September 20, 2009 - September 26, 2009 Archives


Weekend mp3s: Led Zeppelin '75, soundboard recording

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

A Brand New Zeppelin Soundboard Led Zeppelin Long Beach Californication [Empress Valley Supreme Disc EVSD 523-525, 3CD] Live at the Civic Arena, Long Beach, CA, March 11, 1975. Very good soundboard. "While an excellent audience recording may better capture how......

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The only woman in the French Foreign Legion

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

The only woman in the French Foreign Legion in the BBC Magazine comes from Wendy Holden, who helped Susan Travers write her memoir (Tomorrow to Be Brave) in 2000 at age 91. You might hunt this one down for a......

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Links dump: DNA movie, Dr. Gupta gets H1N1, water on the moon, Microsoft tablet, Tweet search

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

I am a factory: Hard to imagine, but beautiful... "Amazing CGI visualization of molecular biology's central dogma. It shows animations of DNA coiling, replication, transcription and translation." It was created by biomedical animator Drew Berry of the Walter and......

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Publishing Carl Jung's unconscious rivals 'Harry Potter' in psych circles

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W.W. Norton A painting by Carl Jung from his Red Book of notes on his hallucinations, a detail from a large photo showing a few such pages. Worth noting, Sara Corbett's lovely, long tale in the Times Sunday Magazine......

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Autumn's here: 'Autumn Leaves'

5:18 PM Tue, Sep 22, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Tommy Flanagan, Benny Carter - Autumn Leaves During the equinox, the sun is directly overhead for anyone standing on the equator. Earth's axis is not tilted today. Today, 5:18 p.m.......

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10th Street Painting Festival Saturday in Providence honors a vanishing art

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

Journal photo / Kris Craig Michael Macaulay of East Greenwich finishes his 3 dimensional Superman during the 6th Annual Providence Street Painting Festival in 2005. The 10th Annual Providence Rotary Street Painting Festival happens Saturday in downtown Providence, Westminster......

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Mp3s: Bach's 'Goldberg Variations'

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

Easing quietly into a new week... ANGELA HEWITT Bach - Goldberg Variations BWV 988 [no label, 1CD] Live at the Royal Festival Hall, London, UK, April 29, 2009. An excellent FM stereo broadcast. Bach's Goldberg Variations is the piano composition......

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The physicist who thought he was on another planet

11:09 AM Sun, Sep 20, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Far from the weekday world of demonstrable facts... Mark Frauenfelder at BoingBoing delivers The Jet-Propelled Couch: true story of a physicist who thought he was a science fiction hero on another planet: This is the incredible true story of a......

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