Month: November 2016

Kate Tempest and All the Rest

Music has, forever, been something that has sustained us, and more than ever in this past month. As well as remembering the very-recently departed — Leonard Cohen, Sharon Jones, Mose Allison, Leon Russell, Pauline Oliveros — we have been hearing everything from the new work of Conor Oberst, to the old favorites of Adele, to the timely protests (“About To Find Out”) of Margo Price. Today, right now, I am listening to Kate Tempest, as I have from time to time over the past three or four years. If you want to hear and see this wonderful poet in live performance, try this:

Was Einstein Wrong About the Speed of Light?

speed-of-lightMaybe it is not constant after all, suggest some physicists trying to explain yet-unanswered questions about the universe.

http://qz.com/846498/the-speed-of-light-is-constant-physicists-plan-to-test-a-new-theory-that-questions-einsteins-assumptions/

Seeing this discussion today comes right after we finished a BBC two-part program on the relationship of the beginning and the end of the universe, “The Beginning And End Of The Universe”. You can see this, like we did, on Netflix (with subtitles for the aging among us!) or on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x13w2gx3MLI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyW4QLEqFpM