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thisistheverge: After ‘Music for Airports,’ Brian Eno turns to...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:43:25 -0400

After ‘Music for Airports,’ Brian Eno turns to hospital soundscapes

Brian Eno, the former member of Roxy Music widely credited with inventing ambient music, is working on light and sound installations designed to provide a “healing environment” inside hospitals. It’s a fitting setting; Eno’s ambient work, as exemplified by albums such as Ambient I: Music for Airports, is said to have been inspired by his own experience of spending an extended period in hospital following a car crash.

literaryjukebox: New York blends the gift of privacy with the...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:27:52 -0400

literaryjukebox:

New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation; and better than most dense communities it succeeds in insulating the individual (if he wants it, and almost everybody wants or needs it) against all enormous and violent and wonderful events that are taking place every minute. … New York is peculiarly constructed to absorb almost anything that comes along (whether a thousand-foot liner out of the East or a twenty-thousand-man convention out of the West) without inflicting the event on its inhabitants; so that every event is, in a sense, optional, and the inhabitant is in the happy position of being able to choose his spectacle and so conserve his soul.

E. B. White in Here Is New York

Song: “City of Refuge” by Abigail Washburn

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An Open Letter To The Supreme Court About Health Insurance, By Jen Sorensen

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 11:27:59 -0400

An Open Letter To The Supreme Court About Health Insurance, By Jen Sorensen

Flash mob in the Copenhagen Metro. Copenhagen Phil playing Peer...

Wed, 09 May 2012 16:02:59 -0400

Flash mob in the Copenhagen Metro. Copenhagen Phil playing Peer Gynt. (by CPHPHIL)

An Exhibit: New York's Photo League

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:10:25 -0500

An Exhibit: New York's Photo League

Artist Niege Borges depicts “dancing mania” - said...

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:14:00 -0500

Artist Niege Borges depicts “dancing mania” - said to have affected some 400 people in Strasbourg, France in 1518 (part of a series)

Water-breaking research: Woman gives birth to a scientific paper -- and a baby --in an MRI

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:13:20 -0500

ivanoransky:

“Push!” Image copyright AJOG

It’s the obvious next step in the distinguished line of scientific inquiry that had author Kayt Sukel orgasm in an MRI by herself and scanned a couple having sex in such a device: German researchers have reported on what happens when a woman gives birth in an MRI.

The scientists were standing on the shoulders of giants, they note in their report in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology:

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Wednesday Bubble: Yes, you can!

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:51:00 -0500

Wednesday Bubble: Yes, you can!:

Considering a #FreshStart - never too late!

Keith Richards: Nutter - Photo Gallery - LIFE

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 09:27:00 -0500

Keith Richards: Nutter - Photo Gallery - LIFE:

Happy birthday, Keith! Great “Life” (get it?) photos

Grand Rounds by Blogborygmi! (w/ Tumblr primer)

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 08:36:39 -0500

Grand Rounds by Blogborygmi! (w/ Tumblr primer):

blogborygmi:

Hello and welcome to this collection of medical links from across the web, written by providers, patients and analysts that work on the frontlines of modern healthcare.

This is my sixth time hosting Grand Rounds (three prior times on blogborygmi’s blogspot site, twice on Medgadget.com), and…

"…people are mastering more kinds of writing. Other technologies that grew more popular this decade..."

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:46:39 -0500

“

…people are mastering more kinds of writing. Other technologies that grew more popular this decade required a different mode of expression: Instant messaging invited a breezy, fast-thinking tone; blog comments (again, the thoughtful ones) sharpened our debate skills; Twitter enforced even more economy onto our words.

In all of these, we were nudged toward something all writers aspire to: a strong, distinct voice.

”

- Kevin Kelleher on how the internet has changed writing (via Om Malik’s reflections on 10 years of blogging) (via blogborygmi)

City Room: Seventeen-Syllable Safety Warning Signs

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:01:15 -0500

City Room: Seventeen-Syllable Safety Warning Signs:

Safety warnings, in the form of haikus, are sprouting up on sign poles around the city. Submit your own haiku, and we’ll post the best.

11 Gorgeous Geological Maps of Volcanoes

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:15:27 -0500

11 Gorgeous Geological Maps of Volcanoes:

These images, compiled by Betsy Mason, are from the Geological Survey of Japan, published by WiredScience, Nov 2011.

The View From Mrs Thompson's

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:45:10 -0400

The View From Mrs Thompson's :

Reading DFW’s essays (“Consider the Lobster”) for the first time; happened upon this short piece on Saturday (9/3/11):

essayist:

David Foster Wallace on 9/11

The Yellow Pages have nothing under Flag. There’s actual interior tension: Nobody walks by or stops their car and says, “Hey, your house doesn’t have a flag,” but it gets easier and easier to imagine people thinking it. None of the grocery stores in town turn out to stock any flags. The novelty shop downtown has nothing but Halloween stuff. Only a few businesses are open, but even the closed ones are displaying some sort of flag. It’s almost surreal. The VFW hall is a good bet, but it can’t open til noon if at all (it has a bar). The lady at Burwell’s references a certain hideous Qik-n-EZ store out by 1-74 at which she was under the impression she’d seen some little plastic flags back in the racks with all the bandannas and Nascar caps, but by the time I get there they turn out to be gone, snapped up by parties unknown. The reality is that there is not a flag to be had in this town. Stealing one out of somebody’s yard is clearly out of the question. I’m standing in a Qik-n-EZ afraid to go home. All those people dead, and I’m sent to the edge by a plastic flag. It doesn’t get really bad until people ask if I’m OK and I have to lie and say it’s a Benadryl reaction (which in fact can happen)…. Until in one more of the Horror’s weird twists of fate and circumstance it’s the Qik-n-EZ proprietor himself (a Pakistani, by the way) who offers solace and a shoulder and a strange kind of unspoken understanding, and who lets me go back and sit in the stock room amid every conceivable petty vice and indulgence America has to offer and compose myself, and who only slightly later, over styrofoam cups of a strange kind of tea with a great deal of milk in it, suggests, gently, construction paper and “Magical Markers,” which explains my now-beloved homemade flag.

Health 3.0 Blog: Grand Rounds

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:23:51 -0400

Health 3.0 Blog: Grand Rounds:

Love the “Goodnight, Irene” jukebox following this post, can’t decide on my favorite version of the song.

h3p0:

People swimming in China’s ‘Dead Sea’ in...

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:47:00 -0400

People swimming in China’s ‘Dead Sea’ in August, 2011

Genetic Music Project

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:49:41 -0400

Since all genetic information can only come in the language of four nucleotides (A Adenosine C Cytosine G Guanine T Thymidine) it is fairly easily conveyed in musical form…

Visible man: Ethics in a world without secrets

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:45:00 -0400

Visible man: Ethics in a world without secrets :

Peter Singer writes in Harper’s about Bentham’s Panopticon

The Charms of Eleanor, by Russell Baker

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:40:00 -0400

The Charms of Eleanor, by Russell Baker:

catching up on the New York Review of Books; the stodgiest of women proves interesting!