December 2011
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American Icons: Moby-Dick - Studio 360 →
Loved this exploration of all things Moby-Dick (Laurie Anderson included) that I heard on NPR today - a recast of Kurt Anderson’s Studio 360 piece on this best known (although how many Americans have read the whole thing? I have… Twice.) novel about the price of obsession, and so many other things…
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Excerpt from Tennessee Williams in Provincetown
“The most significant influence Provincetown had on all Tennessee Williams’ subsequent writing was that he fell in love there.  The style and substance of the relationship was something he wrote about directly and indirectly for the next forty years… As soon as he was back home and alone downstairs with Kip, Williams, with all the eloquence he could command, which was...
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Biology: Bee swarms behave just like neurons in... →
When it comes time for honeybee swarm to split off from their mother colony and find a new place to live, something remarkable happens. To communicate most effectively, they organize themselves exactly like the neurons of a complex brain. Sometimes, a honeybee colony grows too large, and so a swarm…
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