Rancho Música
This is Jarbas Agnelli, “walking around [his] ranch, looking for everything that makes interesting noises.” His ranch sounds great. Drummers reinventing their craft never gets old.
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A collection of 14231 issues
This Bird’s Life
Leave the pardoning to the president. For one budding farmer, some truths are self-evident: that turkeys are stupid, dirty, and very mean.
November 23, 2015
* Obama orders inquiry on whether intelligence was doctored into a sunny view of the military campaign against ISIS. * Damascus-area hospital operated by Doctors Without Borders bombed by unknown partisans. * "The attacks in Paris don't reflect a clash of civilisations but rather the fact that we really
The Clock of the Long Now
Like a Stonehenge in the present day, the Clock of the Long Now is a project to build a clock that can operate for the next 10,000 years. The project’s director, Alexander Rose: “In trying to design a 10,000-year clock, we’re invested in generational thinking
November 20, 2015
* The Paris attacks were planned over the past 11 months. A January raid in Verviers galvanized Abaaoud's resolve. * Belgium’s system of local government, ruled by clientelistic interests, left huge cracks for ISIS to exploit. * ISIS’s first female suicide bomber in Europe grew up in Paris. Her
November 19, 2015
* "Russian airstrikes hit medical facilities at least 10 times during their first month of bombing in Syria." * As long as there's war, there will be famine. * Finding the connections between the Paris terrorists and their locations before and during the attacks. * "U2 had the opportunity
Dirty Words
Throwing f-bombs may be offensive to some people, but it’s also one of the greatest mental health regimens ever devised.
The Downstairs Gays: A Reading
Social media makes it easy to virtually tour our neighbors’ homes—and really, their entire lives. The hard part: finding the clear divide between entertainment and cyberstalking. John Sherman reads “The Downstairs Gays,” originally published at TMN:
November 18, 2015
* Paris police raid apartment believed to house the chief planner behind Friday's attacks. * "Western leaders and public policy intellectuals [tell] you what they will do about Muslims, talking at Muslims." * Islamic State's online "help desk" makes it easier for a wide network
November 17, 2015
* This is "precisely what ISIS intended." To win, France must recognize the feelings terrorists inspire in recruits. * Unlike the Charlie Hebdo attacks, France's mood isn't solidarity, but suspicion and hostility. * "When they come in they may not be extremists. But the way the