Play buttonCaffeine What Is One Horsepower? This Short Film Explains It Allsilodrome.com We still frequently use the term horsepower as the primary indicator of how much power an engine produces, but very few can explain what it actually …
Mortality“Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Love, Mortality, and Night as an Existential Clarifying Force for theBrain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria Popova“Day belongs to family quarrels, but with the night he who has quarreled finds love again. For love is greater than any wind of words… Love is not thinking, but being.” “For a moment of night we have glimpse
World News He Crossed the Atlantic in a Barrel. We Asked Him About Dodging Ships and Using ‘La Toilette.’The New York Times - By EMILY S. RUEBOn a journey across the Atlantic Ocean, the French adventurer Jean-Jacques Savin spent 127 days alone in a large, barrel-shaped capsule made of plywood, at the mercy of the winds and currents. He had television.
Joni Mitchell Joni Mitchell: Her Art and Life in 33 SongsPitchforkSince releasing her first album in 1968, Joni Mitchell has been a singularly influential force in popular music, offering a blueprint for both enlightenment and rebellion. Here, we take a chronological
Music Preserving The House Of A Pioneering Musician — Who We Will Never HearNPR - Alison FensterstockOn a sunny Thursday afternoon in May, the corner of First Street and LaSalle in New Orleans' Central City neighborhood was lively. Kids tooled around on bikes and grown-up neighbors danced to the sounds
Salvador Dalí Comically surreal: how Dali’s film with Marx brothers came to lifeThe Guardian - Vanessa ThorpeGiraffes on Horseback Salad, an improbable project dreamed up by the most unorthodox of creative talents, Salvador Dalí and the Marx Brothers, still features regularly on lists of the most tantalising
Dodge A Comprehensively Restored Original Dodge Power Wagon 4x4silodrome.com The Dodge Power Wagon was developed shortly after World War II due largely to popular demand – Dodge had built the almost indestructible 3/4 ton WC …
Art Stained Glass: The Splendid History of an Ancient Art Form That Still Dazzles TodayMy Modern Met - Kelly Richman-AbdouFor thousands of years, artisans have found inspiration in glistening glass. In any form, glass can produce exquisite works of art. However, when colored, the medium climbs to kaleidoscopic new heights.
Music More Than 'Kind Of Blue': In 1959, A Few Albums Changed Jazz ForeverNPR - Rachel Martin , Vince PearsonSixty years ago, this month, Miles Davis finished recording Kind of Blue, perhaps his greatest masterpiece and still jazz's bestselling album. But it was not the only milestone recorded that year. John
Willie Dixon Never Satisfied: Willie Dixon Refused to Serve…Anything But the Bluescounterpunch.org - Jeffrey St. Clair Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair“Blues are the roots, the rest are the fruits.”— Willie DixonHis momma was weeping by now and Willie knew it. That’s …
Sailing Is this the world’s most dangerous sea route?BBC Travel - By James ClarkTo commemorate the 500th anniversary of the discovery of the Strait of Magellan, a writer sets off in his grandfather’s wake to the deadly Cape Horn headland. When I was a child, my grandfather Alfred
Science See the world’s oldest trees by starlightNational GeographicEditor’s Note: On April 26, National Geographic published photos by Beth Moon on nationalgeographic.com, depicting the world’s oldest trees against the night sky. Significant concerns about the veracity
Charles Mingus Year By Year: Five Essential Jazz Albums of 1960jazziz.com - Matt Micucci Jazz may not have an official yearbook, but it does have a vast and well-documented discography. ‘Year by Year’ is our attempt to bring you the most …
History Diary of Livingstone’s Intrepid African Attendant Jacob Wainright Digitizedsmithsonianmag.com - Jason Daley In 1866, David Livingstone returned once more to Africa, with a mission to find the source of the Nile River. The Scottish missionary’s expedition …
Count Basie Count Basie Videos: 1959-'61jazzwax.com - Marc Myers By the late 1950s, Count Basie's European tour schedule was growing increasingly crowded. Here are three recently posted videos of the New Testament …
Dean Bradshaw Proves Blue Can Be Bleak Aboard a Fishing Trawlerthephoblographer.com - Joy Celine Asto All photos by Dean Bradshaw. Used with Creative Commons permission. It’s fascinating to follow a photographer’s epic adventures through their photos, …
Notre-Dame de Paris Rewriting A Symphony In Stonelongreads.com - Summer Brennan As flames erupted from the roof of Notre Dame cathedral, snapping their bright orange tongues against the blue of a darkening springtime sky, people …
22 Pictures From One Of The Greatest Photographers In Historybuzzfeednews.com - Gabriel H. Sanchez "Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way." —Margaret Bourke-White Photographer …
The Great Lost Dead ArchiveGQ - By Jesse JarnowAs a longtime sound engineer for the Grateful Dead, Dan Healy pioneered the way live music hits you in the gut—and he amassed a rich collection of tour tees along the way. Then he forgot about it. We Healy
Native Americans Rare Photos of Native Americans Show a History That Was Almost Forgottentheepochtimes.com - Ingrid Longauerová When American photographer Edward S. Curtis first photographed Native Indians in 1906, he didn’t know that was just the beginning of his 20-year …
Play button ‘My Way’: The Unlikely Story Behind The Frank Sinatra Classicudiscovermusic.com - Richard Havers Frank Sinatra‘s recording of ‘My Way’ has spent longer on the UK singles chart than any other song – an amazing 124 weeks. That’s almost twice as …
A Three-Day Expedition To Walk Across Paris Entirely Undergroundlongreads.com - Longreads Will Hunt | An excerpt from Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet | Spiegel & Grau | January 2019 | 26 minutes (6,748 words) And …
Play button The First Corvettes To Race At Le Mans – The Cunningham 1960 Chevrolet Corvettesilodrome.com Reading time: about 5 minutes. American • Cars • Classic Cars In 1960 the Americans would arrive at the world’s most famous endurance race with a bang – …
Play button 20 Mark Knopfler Milestones — By Mark Himselfudiscovermusic.com - Paul Sexton Mark Knopfler doesn’t spend much time looking over his shoulder, so we’re going to do it on his behalf. This is a chance to review the remarkable …
Play button A Bird’s Life: How Charlie Parker Changed The Course Of Jazz Historyudiscovermusic.com - Richard Havers Charlie Parker was one of the most important figures in the development of jazz and in particular Bop. His was a thoughtful kind of jazz, a …
After the Tsunamilongreads.com - Matthew Komatsu Matthew Komatsu | Longreads | March 2019 | 24 minutes (6,092 words) This piece was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Ichi (One) Obā-san tasted ash. Yes: …
Play button How we made Booker T and the MGs' Green OnionsThe Guardian - Interviews by Dave SimpsonI grew up in Memphis and by the time I was 17, I was learning saxophone, piano and Hammond organ, paid for by my paper round. I started going over to Stax Records after school. Soon enough, I was the guy
Starstruck—60 Years of NASA’s Dazzling Archivesscientificamerican.com - Liz Tormes The first thing you might notice about the breathtaking new volume from German publisher TASCHEN, The NASA Archives, is the weight of the book itself. …
Deep Dive: Odds 'n' Ends About Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Lester Young and "Jazz" Itselfwbgo.org - Lewis Porter We thank our readers for following Deep Dive with Lewis Porter. Sometimes new information comes to light after I’ve posted, and at other times I …
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