John Cage performs “4:33” in Harvard Square.

In case you've never seen it, from 1973, John Cage performs "4:33" in Harvard Square.

Jan 27, 2021

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Haruki Murakami designs a line of T-shirts for UNIQLO featuring motifs from his novels.

↩︎ Spoon & Tamago 1h

A top Nike executive loses her job after her son, a top "sneaker flipper" known as "West Coast Joe," is profiled in the press.

↩︎ Slate 2h

Restaurant critic Tejal Rao employs burnt oranges and "mindful smelling" to try to regain her sense of smell, post-Covid.

↩︎ The New York Times 2h

Jazz musicians use software called JackTrip to play together during the pandemic. “Whoo, I feel like we’re in business now!”

↩︎ The New Yorker 2h

“I have a quality—a vice, perhaps. It’s called perseverance, which isn’t the same thing as patience. Patience I don’t possess, but perseverance? You’re talking to someone who recorded 555 Scarlatti sonatas.”

Remembering Scott Ross, the “bad boy” harpsichordist and the best of his era.

↩︎ The New York Times

Do the Thomas Piketty.

Hayden Higgins

What if we passed a one-time wealth tax to fund pandemic relief? Yale Law School's Daniel Markovits makes the case.

The nation’s three largest cities spent $2.5 billion over the past 10 years settling lawsuits over police misconduct.

↩︎ The Marshall Project 2h

Why are we convinced, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that sabotage is an unacceptable and ineffective tactic?

Sabotage isn’t just blowing things up. E.g., it can undermine the notions of private property that constrain the climate movement.

↩︎ Verso Books

A massive new study says advertising doesn't work, or at least is too expensive to get anything out of it.

↩︎ Freakonomics 2h

A visual search engine finds pictures with the "same energy."

↩︎ Same.Energy 2h

Your weekly soothe: Artist Tadao Cern suspends a field of grass from the ceiling.

↩︎ Colossal 1d

Starting at 13, women now can be screened for anxiety as part of a routine checkup—a "breakthrough" for mental health care.

↩︎ The Lily 1d

The team found that conversations almost never end when both parties want them to—and that people are a very poor judge of when their partner wishes to call it quits.

A study finds that only two percent of conversations end at the time both parties desire.

↩︎ Scientific American

Remote, Ore., has become a job capital in the US—a placeholder on job boards when a listing is a remote-work position.

↩︎ BNet 1d

In case you also discovered classical music on Saturday mornings.

From "Barber of Seville" to "The Blue Danube," to a ton of Strauss, an extensive detailing of pieces featured in cartoons.

THREAD: Lots of us learned classical music from watching old cartoons, so I’m going to identify the pieces that frequently popped up.

One of the most recognizable is Franz Liszt’s “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2,” performed by those great piano virtuosos Bugs Bunny and Tom & Jerry. pic.twitter.com/SmyKbMpw3e
— Vincent Alexander (@NonsenseIsland) March 1, 2021

Right-wing platform Gab gets hacked—"another gold mine of research for people looking at militias, neo-Nazis, the far right."

↩︎ WIRED 1d

Remembering the Harvard Computers: the 80 women who developed a classification system that identified nearly 400,000 stars.

↩︎ Open Culture 1d

The biggest archeological discoveries of 2020 include "a sprawling geoglyph in Peru, a trove of mummies, the tomb of Romulus."

↩︎ Live Science 5d

“It's a scapegoat. It’s an excuse.” Tuskegee is by no means a top reason why some Black people are reluctant to get vaccinated.

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A group has $250,000 for anyone offering indisputable proof of supernatural abilities. No one yet has been able to claim it.

↩︎ OneZero 5d

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