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Monthly Archives: January 2010
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Two good theater pieces in the Gray Lady this morning: first, Patrick Healy interviews the cast of the Ethan Hawke-directed revival of Sam Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind (which absence from my library I should rectify): MARIN IRELAND: One … Continue reading
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The B feature
Via Arts & Letters Daily, Lucie Skeaping recaps what we know of 17th century jigs, bawdy theatrical afterpieces. Were jigs recited over the tunes, did they contain song interludes, were they through-sung like mini-operas, or did all three of these … Continue reading
Carderock: an update
First, the large riverside tree that was described as American Linden is now identified by Elizabeth as Eastern Cottonwood (Populus deltoides). Second, classmate Patty has posted a set of images from the trip.
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A discovery
I’ve been walking down this block most workdays for the past year, and it was only this morning that I noticed there are wind chimes hanging from many of the trees in Mount Vernon Square, on the grounds of the … Continue reading
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Connecting the dots
The Economist summarizes recent publications by Adamatzky and Jones and Atsushi Tero that use Physarum polycephalum, a species of myxomycetes (a/k/a slime mold, probably my favorite simple organisms), to model the tradeoffs between efficiency and redundancy in designing macro networks, … Continue reading
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In the wilderness
The longest period of fasting was fixed by his impresario at forty days, beyond that term he was not allowed to go, not even in great cities, and there was good reason for it, too. Experience had proved that for … Continue reading
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The Last Cargo Cult
For a man who spends two hours sitting behind a desk and talking, Mike Daisey reveals an energy and grace in his movement worthy of a tai chi chuan master. Steepling his fingers to make a point, then softly melting … Continue reading
Carderock
The weather was once again kind to us, this time for our first field trip in winter woody plant ID (trees mostly, and some shrubs). We worked a short bit of the towpath of the (still iced-over) C&O Canal and … Continue reading
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Dickens decoded
At the present time, in the dark little parlour certain feet below the level of the street—a grim, hard, uncouth parlour, only ornamented with the coarsest of baize table-covers, and the hardest of sheet-iron tea-trays, and offering in its decorative … Continue reading
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Welcome to this situation
Arthur Lubow profiles Tino Sehgal, zero-impact conceptual artist/sculptor/choreographer. Unlike so much of contemporary art, Sehgal’s art evokes passionate reactions among the unschooled as well as the cognoscenti. Anyone who has seen the onlookers trudging passively through an art museum (all … Continue reading
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Advice to the players
Actors, you have to make a decision: When I come back to life, how do I feel about this? —adjudicator Libby Anne Russler, 2010 MCTFA
Pocket change
The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) don’t necessarily kill: they maim, blind, and stunt the world’s poor. It’s estimated that of the world’s bottom billion in poverty, at least everyone is afflicted with at least one of these nasties, from hookworm … Continue reading
Posted in Health and Medicine, Public Policy and Politics
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Some links: 42
A few weeks ago, Bas Bleu retraced the track of a bicycle trip she took across France 30 years ago, this time en voiture. I’m reading her reports completely out of order, chronologically and geographically, but I don’t think it … Continue reading
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Show Boat
Kern and Hammerstein’s breakthrough musical gets a simplified and trimmed production in Arlington. This 1927 show from the novel by Edna Ferber shows the traces of turn of the century operetta and music hall—songs that don’t fit into a simple … Continue reading
