The ‘Race Against Time’ to Save Music Legends’ Decaying Tapes www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/a...

Stinking, Spongy, Dark, Huge: A Spider Web Unlike Any Seen Before www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/s...

PREORDER: 'Sysivalo' by Ø (Mika Vainio) Posthumous album from the innovative Finnish electronic producer, completed shortly before his death in 2017. 2LP + CD on Sähkö Recordings. www.normanrecords.com/records/2116...

Cancelled Disney/Hulu/HBO due to the fact they have chosen to become state-directed media, and now I will have to go back to reading books or god forbid listening to podcasts. The sacrifices I make for democracy, I tell ya.

Cancel Disney

Climate change is altering the natural world’s soundscape, with declining bird, insect, and amphibian populations leading to quieter environments. This “sensory extinction” is exacerbated by noise pollution from human activities. Listen to these recordings in this article from @sabs.bsky.social!

Spain Is an Example to the World www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...

We sail through endless skies Stars shine like eyes The black night sighs The moon in silver dreams … And so, we pass on by The crimson eye Of great god Mars As we travel the universe

Videos From the Amazon Reveal an Unexpected Animal Friendship www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/s...

Remembrance of Scents Past

Under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, America's poorest families lose about $1600 per year. The richest households gain about $12,000 per year. It's Reverse Robin Hood. (Via CBO)

Hear the World’s Oldest Instrument, the “Neanderthal Flute,” Dating Back Over 43,000 Years

EARTH 2.7

Some of the best films of the century

New & Notable: Celebrate three decades of the iconic Planet Mu with this 25-track compilation featuring new material from Jlin, Venetian Snares, and more.

Earth is heading for 2.7°C warming this century ->Cosmos | #Earth | More info from EcoSearch

Since the end of the ceasefire on 18 March, 1,309 children have reportedly been killed and 3,738 injured. In total, more than 50,000 children have reportedly been killed or injured since October 2023. The children of Gaza need protection NOW: unicef.link/3ZCg0wJ

These birds form life-long friendships just like humans, study finds

Happy birthday, David Attenborough! 99 ways he has inspired us, by Barack Obama, Billie Eilish, Morgan Freeman – and many more

My Brain Finally Broke www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“….Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government. Accordingly, Harvard will not accept the government's terms as an agreement in principle….” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The de-extinction of the dire wolf – is Jurassic Park really happening?

"We in the federal government have recently unearthed a scandal of epic proportions: During the previous administration, trillions of taxpayer dollars were wasted on 'programs' intended to 'help' 'people.'"

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

America was given a choice between a lawless, amoral monster and a qualified, intelligent, joyful woman of color—and it chose the monster. We need to reckon with the reality of what that says about so many of us here. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/america-ch...

"Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now." On Jack Kerouac's birthday, his beautiful letter to his first wife turned lifelong friend about kindness and the illusion of the self

Extreme sarcasm is becoming the only way to deal with these surreal times… Let’s Save Western Civilization by Being Cruel Motherfuckers www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/let...

A respectful goodbye for a friend and positive force of cultural landscape in Italy and beyond…Sergio you will be missed but your work and legacy will continue and we will make sure to dance and feel ahead…sempre avanti!!! youtube.com/watch?v=Tu6c...

Beautifully made film about Bernie Krause and in wild sanctuary… Listen and shut the f….up youtu.be/w-0IzU1EDdk?...

The US is destroying climate progress. Here’s a strategy to win over the right | Erin Burns

These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."

I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

We invite you to step for a moment onto the path of the Shikoku Pilgrimage—a 1,150-kilometer route linking eighty-eight Buddhist temples around the Japanese island. Seeker and land entwined, each footstep an act of ritual, and the destination a chant heard on the wind. https://buff.ly/3Qr2PtH

“Hitler systematically disabled and then dismantled his country’s democratic structures and processes in less than two months’ time—specifically, one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes,” Timothy W. Ryback writes in a step-by-step account:

Breaking News: Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s former president, was charged with overseeing a vast scheme to overturn the 2022 election he lost.

Read, share, and gift banned books. pen.org/banned-books...

“…And while music is reflexively celebrated for its manipulation of emotion, this new music allowed for objective and perceptual phenomena—physics, zoology, neurology—to motivate structures, as in Maryanne Amacher’s use of psychoacoustic effects, like “difference tones” “

“By the time Cage turned fifty, he had challenged fundamental assumptions about music and the roles of composer.... He embraced sounds many would have dismissed as noise. He invented methods of removing personal taste...from composition.” —Nicolas Collins