“Be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.”— Jonathan Lockwood Huie
20 Good Things about Books, Entertainment, Science and Weird News
- Stephen King's new book, Gwendy's Button Box had me hooked from page one.
- Good Sex and Crime Fiction - turns out it's harder than it looks. (Pun intended)
- BBC suggests 10 Books to Read in June.
- "As mesmerizing as a spinning chicken," says the NPR review of David Sedaris' new book Theft By Finding.
- Why fight snails in the margins?
- The Next Game of Thrones? - Netflix begins filming a new bloody series.
- "He Who Must Not Be Named" The Prequel...Coming Soon.
- Flipp is the buttonless remote that may allow you to toss your collection of complicated remotes.
- Top Gun 2 will not be called Top Gun 2.
- Sensory Substitution - There's a device which allows the blind to see with their tongue.
- I grew up with an artist so it's not a shock to me that Artists May Have Different Brains Than The Rest of Us.
- The Go-Go's "We Got The Beat" was too obvious a choice - A New York Hospital Recommends Musical artists like Lynyrd Skynyrd, Missy Elliot and Hanson for timing CPR.
- "You look familiar." - Now, scientists know why.
- Psychological Halloweenism - Be more creative by pretending to be anyone other than yourself.
- Midnight Snack - The Badger that buried the cow:
- A Tale of Two Coffees - The curious story of how transatlantic exchange shaped Italy’s illustrious coffee culture.
- Spare a Square? - China has resorted to using facial scanning technology to curb toilet paper theft.
- Anonymous - Nameberry.com has released a list of baby names that no one, not one single person, used in the United States in 2016.
- From the Department of WTF? - "The peacock is a lifelong celibate. It never has sex with the peahen. The peahen gets pregnant after swallowing the tears of the peacock"
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