Month: November 2016
rDay Six-Hundred-Fifteen
Around the back streets and beyond …
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:
rDay Six-Hundred-Fourteen: Alleys, Streets and Sky
What If Jobs Are Not The Solution, But The Problem?
Dennis directs our attention to this provocative suggestion by a Rutgers professor:
https://aeon.co/essays/what-if-jobs-are-not-the-solution-but-the-problem
rDay Six-Hundred-Fourteen
The first appearance of snow at street level:
Was Einstein Wrong About the Speed of Light?
Maybe it is not constant after all, suggest some physicists trying to explain yet-unanswered questions about the universe.
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:
rDay Six-Hundred-Thirteen
rDay Six-Hundred-Twelve: Into the Holiday Weekend
Leonard Cohen, Hard To Forget
We’ve been hearing a lot of Leonard Cohen lately. Today, Terry Gross’ Fresh Air podcast does a reprise of a 2006 interview: