[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- For sight-reading music, practice doesn't make perfect
- [Science News]
A basic type of recall may limit the benefits of experience
[This makes me feel a little better about all those years of piano lessons, at the end of which I still could not sight-read. Basically, I learned music by memorizing the hand movements. -L]
- Experts Warn Climate Change Is Beginning to Disrupt Agriculture
- [Scientific American]
- For Some Reason There's A New Smurfs Movie Coming Out
- [Shakesville]
Also, Smurfs Theme + Wild Thing = I've died and gone to Hell.
- No Symbolism Here
- [Alas A Blog]
The irony of a 62-foot tall graven image being burned to the ground by an Act of God proves that if there is really a God, She has an unbelievably wicked sense of humor. Of course, members of the church seem to be sensing that this could be a message, but confused about what it could possibly mean, because, you know, if God is sending a message, burning a six story tall statue of His son to the ground is pretty subtle.
- Stop the BP Bailout: 50,000 Petition Signatures by Next Week
- [Firedoglake]
The Senate will soon debate legislation to make BP pay every dime for its oil disaster. Anything less is a taxpayer funded bailout of BP.
More than 44,000 people have already signed our petition to the Senate to make BP pay. Can you add your name and help us reach 50,000 signatures before we deliver our petition to the Senate next week?
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