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Get while it lasts: Hitler reacts to missing the first Colorado record Hoary Redpoll (Carduelis hornemanni). ᔥ Paul
View ArticleGone Gus
Cosmo Allegretti, puppeteer and voice of Dancing Bear, Bunny Rabbit, and Mr. Moose, has dropped his last ping pong ball.
View ArticleCompeting voices
Emily Graslie and Ernesto Ruelas go birding by ear (and occasionally, by eye) in the western Amazon. So that’s what a toucan sounds like.
View ArticleTitan
So, picking up some vibration in the air or other, I recently watched Keep On Keepin’ On (2014), Alan Hicks’s documentary about the relationship between veteran jazz trumpeter Clark Terry and the young...
View Article50 feet to the inch
Glen Creason takes us through the map collection at the Los Angeles Public Library. ᔥ NYPL Wire
View ArticleOn the teevee
CBS This Morning finally ran its feature about Bob Boilen and Stephen Thompson’s Tiny Desk Concerts. They were there to film on a couple-three occasions many weeks ago, including February’s awesome...
View ArticleStand clear of the closing doors
Not to be outdone by WAMU’s profile of Randi Miller, the voice of Metro, The New Yorker offers this video video vignette of Charlie Pellett, the voice of NYC’s subway. ᔥ kottke.org
View ArticleDoors open on the left
So it’s the week of meet-the-voices. Vox points to this video introduction to Lee Crooks, voice of Chicago’s El trains.
View ArticleNow I understand why the “next train” announcement is so echo-y
Juicy views of the model board at NYC’s West Fourth Street control tower. The spokesmen for the subway system walk that fine line between letting people know that the system is safe, but oh so riddled...
View ArticleThe internet is amazing: 1
An unsold television pilot of Larry Shue’s The Nerd was made in 1989 and aired in 1996. Some of the corners are rounded off—Rick isn’t nearly as obnoxious as he could be—but the basic comic situation...
View ArticleThe internet is amazing: 2
From time to time I would remember a TV series from my childhood with a fairly simple premise: whatever the problem at hand might be, it could be solved by hopping into an airboat and zipping through...
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ᏍᏏᏉᏯ (Sequoyah) explains how Cherokee script has evolved and adapted with changes in technology. ᔥ Eduardo Avila, PRI
View ArticleHe had me at the mbira
If your cellphone rings in the middle of a John Cage concert, Paolo Angeli knows what to do with it: he’ll fine some way to wedge it into his baritone guitar. A musicologist’s wet dream.
View ArticleThe best part is when he stops for gas
This showed up on VH-1 this morning. It’s easily the dullest, lamest video that the 80s has to offer.
View ArticleThat sound you hear is my head exploding
Chris Ware, Ira Glass, Nico Muhly, and John Kuramoto, d.b.a. “Phoobis,” create an animated cover for this week’s issue of The New Yorker. Guest-starring a former Secretary of State. ᔥ kottke.org
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Featuring (now) full-time colleagues Alex and Maanvi. And check out the cameo by Stacey at 1:39.
View ArticleOn the island
Emily Graslie talks to Robb Telfer about his work to conserve Illinois’s only endemic flowering plant, Kankakee Mallow (Iliamna remota), to Langham Island in the Kankakee River.1 1 USDA PLANTS lists I....
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