The BBC reports on a new study finding that drummers are "top athletes" (also available on video):Burke was connected to equipment to measure his heart rate and oxygen uptake, and the levels of lactic acid in his blood.He found that during a performance, his heart...
The Abkhazia plan proposed by German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has been getting close to zero press in the United States. Which may be appropriate. As a Kommersant headline sums it...
From Damien Mansell of Swansea University:The cabin was situated on the top of a ridge, at the bottom of a large valley looking out to the Arctic Ocean. The Ocean met large ice-cliffs and nunataks,...
Although I've played around with Wordle (h/t Daniel Little) before, I admit that I never thought of using it for a particular form of academic navel-gazing: generating text-clouds of one's books....
Well, I was all set to blog this morning about having my faith in international institutions renewed by the arrest of Radovan Karadzic, but then I discovered I'd been "tagged" by Dan Drezner to blog about my favorite "guilty pleasure" songs. I have explained to Dan I have a committed relationship with pleasure but only an occassional flirtation with guilt, so the five songs he requested will be hard to come by.Still, there are those that combine lyrics I want to oppose for political reasons with music that is breathtakingly irresistible... like, Leona Lewis, "Bleeding in Love." It should be...