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There is a little cocktail party game that we opera fanatics love
There is a little cocktail party game that we opera fanatics love to play. We’re sort of always playing it, whether we realize it or not. It basical...

Friends who know me know I’m kind of a Classical Music nerd. We
Friends who know me know I’m kind of a Classical Music nerd. We are what we are. Still, I have to share this signature “doom-and-gloom” Philip G...

Miserere is Latin for Have Mercy. It’s fascinating to think that
Miserere is Latin for Have Mercy. It’s fascinating to think that Allegri composed this piece for two separate choirs: one of four boy soprano voices...

Despite their sometimes foreboding presence in science fiction,
Despite their sometimes foreboding presence in science fiction, computers are our friends. And sometimes much, much more. In 1960 psychologist and com...

Of approximately 11 million hectares of oil palm plantations
Of approximately 11 million hectares of oil palm plantations globally, about 6 million hectares are found in Malaysia -- and counting. In many places,...

Fear provokes irrationality. Given the parlous state of current
Fear provokes irrationality. Given the parlous state of current events in the world, it’s no surprise that online discourse has grown shrill. Even s...

For more than fifty years NASA has been documenting the space
For more than fifty years NASA has been documenting the space program though art. Commissioned artists include Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and No...