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Symphony of Science

I just had to share this, and I’d like it to stick around longer than a Tweet allows. You gotta see this:

Symphony of Science

My favorite of the series is We Are All Connected:

The beauty of a living thing

is not the atoms

that go into it

but the way those atoms

are put together.

The cosmos

is also within us

We’re made [...]

So this is the new year

…and I don’t feel any different. Or so say the lyrics to “The New Year” from Transatlanticism, a really stellar album from Death Cab for Cutie.

On the topic of music, I’ve got a recently discovered guilty pleasure to share: the album Ocean Eyes by Owl City. It’s sugary electronic pop, a sort of auditory cotton [...]

Random Finds for Random Minds

Taking a break from a long weekend of cleaning – and I’ll be back at work tomorrow, haha woo holidays, amirite? – to bring you some random arty stuff from the far reaches of the interwebnets:

Reviewing in Briefs: This Is War

The third album released by American rock band 30 Seconds to Mars, this disc seems to split the difference between their eponymous debut and second album, A Beautiful Lie. The debut album was basically a rock soundtrack for the ultimate sci-fi movie that’s never been made (yet). It’s really great music to daydream or make [...]

Anniversaries…not always happy days.

We’re coming up on…what…three years since my little brother Michael died. I find myself thinking about him more often than you might expect. It’s a sobering, melancholy kind of thought – fitting, I suppose.