Dolphins learn the ‘names’ of their friends to form teams—a first in animal kingdom Science
Alaska’s ‘mushroom of immortality’ BBC
The 30 Greatest Action Movies of All Time. Great to see personal favorite Drunken Master II on here.
Watch Waddles the duck walk for the first time with his new 3D-printed prosthetic leg.
The beat went on: what happened to Jan Kerouac, Jack’s forgotten daughter
Parrot Fever was never finished, though Nicosia and others worked on editing Jan’s drafts together into a completed manuscript. Baby Driver and Trainsong have fallen out of print. Nicosia would like, with celebrations of the centenary of Kerouac’s birth planned for next year, to see more recognition given to Jan, both as Jack’s daughter and as a writer in her own regard.
Maverick Philosopher: Dreher contra Buchanan on "All men are created equal."
All men are normatively equal because they are metaphysically equal. They are the latter because they are spiritual beings deriving from one and the same spiritual source. Each one of us is a person just as God is a person. We are equal as persons even though we are highly unequal as animals
Conservative Publishers Are Finding ‘Ice Cold’ Market For Books Trashing Joe Biden
“Authors have little interest in writing them, editors have little interest in publishing them, and — though the hypothesis has yet to be tested — it’s widely assumed that readers would have little interest in buying them. In many ways, the dynamic represents a microcosm of the current political moment: Facing a new president whose relative dullness is his superpower, the American right has gone hunting for richer targets to elevate.” – The Atlantic
What do two centuries of American self-help best sellers say about the country? Louis Menand digs in self help
Articles of Note
The heist was brazen: a Magritte snatched at gunpoint. Two years later, someone walked it into a Brussels police station. What happened
New Books
Blades, poisons, guns, bombs, defenestration, and plump cushions: A history of political murder
The misinformation age. Understanding the spread of wacky is about who you know, not what you think
“Part of grief’s tyranny is that it robs you of remembering the things that matter.” In a pandemic, such theft is even more prevalent grief
Conductors aren't quite unnecessary to an orchestra, but they're not as important as those baton wagglers would like us to think wagglers