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Carnivorous is an anagram of coronavirus.

The vegans are saying I told you so.

For the title of his last song, “Murder Most Foul,” Bob Dylan borrowed from Shakespeare. For his unexpectedly rapid-fire follow-up, he’s cribbing from Walt Whitman. “I Contain Multitudes” takes its name (and the final line of each stanza) from a famous parenthetical thought in Whitman’s “Song of Myself.” And true to the declaration of personal complexity, the tune itself contains a legion’s worth of thoughts and attitudes… although, at a mere four and a half minutes long, not quite as many multitudes as the 17-minute “Murder.”
Bob Dylan Releases a Second New Single: ‘I Contain Multitudes’ – Variety. 

Using traditional instruments, a Japanese Buddhist monk named Kossan performs delightfully earnest covers of rock songs. So far, he’s done Queen’s We Will Rock You, Yellow Submarine by the Beatles — both embedded above —Teenage Lobotomy by the Ramones, and a song by Japanese punk bank The Blue Hearts. 

Yolŋu people preparing for traditional ceremonies at the 2011 Garma Festival in Arnhem Land
CREDIT: Wayne Quilliam Photography / Yothu Yindi Foundation on flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0).

The Beatles — the early years

Indie Musicians Take To Social Media To Replace Live Gig Income

“Sales do not drive a career the way they used to, so it’s more imperative than ever for artists to stay out on the road. And right now we’re not talking about a diminishment of income, we’re talking about a cessation of it. It’s done. And no one can tell us for how long.” – Washington Post

LIVING HISTORY: How the ‘Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World’ Got Its Logo

HERO DOG: Inside story of Cairo, the dog that helped catch Osama bin Laden.

SO I MENTIONED MY DISTILLED SPIRITS LAW CLASS, and I did do a couple of lectures there on the distilling process. But reader Konrad Miller, PhD, PE, teaches distilling technology at UC Davis, and he has some much more technical lectures online. I love where he explains that the stuff you learned in intro chemistry about Van der Waals forces and hydrogen bonds really matters here. Check them out

A great review of Halt and Catch Fire, still an underrated gem of a show. "One of my favourite things in the show is how the characters age, how they escape their old loops, how they become more themselves, and where they end up."

Newly discovered chemical in willow trees kills various cancer cells New Atlas 
 
A Quiet Revolution in Botany (WA): Plants Form Memories GetPocket

A list of magazine stories that inspired entire movies (like Hustlers, Spotlight, Argo, Adaptation, The Fast and the Furious (!!), and Boogie Nights).

Dance Is The Most Physical Of Arts. Here’s How It Changes Your Relationship With Food

Calories in, energy out, right? If only it was that simple… –LitHub

93-year-old woman using powers of the internet to keep beer stocked during pandemic

“For all the puffery in calling ourselves Homo sapiens, the “wise human,” we display remarkably little wisdom, even of a prudential kind” — David Benatar (Cape Town) on how human choices about the treatment of animals led to the pandemic

In short supply during the pandemic: masks, ventilators, and “the realization of how little we know” — Erik Angner (Stockholm) on epistemic humility

Non-contradiction contradiction? — or not?

“One reason death can seem freshly invented in loss is because the death we find in our philosophies is not the one we find in life” — Amy Olberding (Oklahoma) on meditates on the “the stuff of lives that have no more use for stuff”

The Big Number Duel between Agustín Rayo (MIT) & Adam Elga (Princeton) — a video from Numberphile (via Dmitri Gallow) 

The philosophy and science of the television show “Devs” — with remarks from Bill Blattner (Georgetown), Erin Flynn (Ohio Wesleyan), David Landy (San Francisco State), Ben Lennertz (Colgate), & Neal Tognazzini (Western Washington