Thick As A Trick

from Louder Sound Jethro Tull: the story behind Thick As A Brick In 1971, Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson set out with tongue-in-cheek to make “the mother of all concept albums”. With Thick As A Brick, he ended up fulfilling his ambition – and then some By Malcolm Dome...

Barefoot In The Past

from The Wall Street Journal Ancient Footprints Yield Surprising New Clues About the First Americans Unearthed in New Mexico along what was once a lakefront, the tracks show generations living in the area thousands of years before many scientists believed By Robert...

The Human Library

from France 24 At the ‘Human Library’, everyone is an open book Copenhagen (AFP) At the “Human Library”, you can “loan” a person to tell you their life story, an original concept born in Denmark that is designed to challenge...

Suckers Not Junk

from Phys.org Why some fish are ‘junk’ and others are protected. Study points to bias against native species by Margo Rosenbaum Credit: CC0 Public Domain Andrew Rypel grew up fishing on Wisconsin’s pristine lakes and rivers. With just a worm on his...

Pleistocene Couture

from Smithsonian Evidence of Fur and Leather Clothing, Among World’s Oldest, Found in Moroccan Cave Humans likely sported clothes made of jackal, fox and wildcat skins some 120,000 years ago by Brian Handwerk A bone tool from Contrebandiers Cave likely used for making...

The Troubled Teen Machine

from The New Yorker The Shadow Penal System for Struggling Kids By Rachel Aviv In the spring of her freshman year of high school, in 2011, Emma Burris was woken at three in the morning. Someone had turned on the lights in her room. She was facing the wall and saw a...