by | Aug 6, 2021 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from Nautilus What Misspellings Reveal About Cultural Evolution BY HELENA MITON Illustration by VectorMine / Shutterstock Something about me must remind people of a blind 17th-century poet. My last name, Miton, is French, yet people outside of France invariably...
by | Aug 5, 2021 | Culture Music Art
from InsideHook The Musicians With the Biggest (And Smallest) Vocabularies A new study determined which artists use the most unique words in their songs BY BONNIE STIERNBERG We all know that when it comes to song lyrics, some artists are more verbose than others. Some...
by | Aug 4, 2021 | Culture Music Art
from AP Fire destroys cabin of New Hampshire man forced out of woods By KATHY McCORMACK Jodie Gedeon via AP CANTERBURY, N.H. (AP) — For almost three decades, 81-year-old David Lidstone has lived in the woods of New Hampshire along the Merrimack River in a small cabin...
by | Aug 3, 2021 | Culture Music Art
from UnHerd How artists lost their courage Keeping silent is the price of a successful career BY JESS DE WAHLS In 2013, Grayson Perry became the first crossdresser to give the BBC’s annual Reith Lectures. I loved them. Wearing his usual colourful attire,...
by | Jul 31, 2021 | Culture Music Art, Mirth
from Yahoo! News Woman with only known recording of J.D. Salinger’s voice to have tape burned by Brendan Morrow J.D. Salinger Holly Ramer / ASSOCIATED PRESS The potentially last chance to hear J.D. Salinger’s voice on tape is set to go up in smoke,...
by | Jul 30, 2021 | Culture Music Art
from The Wall Street Journal We Live in a Golden Age of Dinosaur Chicken Nuggets The ‘fun nugget’ boomlet taught makers to use fewer spikes, leave room for breading; now, perfecting Baby Yoda’s ears By Ellen Byron If Mark Tolbert could redesign his company’s...
