A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

The gateway drug of Tonya Donnelly songs…

The Real Ramona was the “big” album, and it’s good, but I’m partial to House Tornado

The Geraldine Fibbers - Dragon Lady YouTube video by MelTheFruitFly

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Saw Belly live years ago, with Radiohead as the opener. Fantastic show.

Tanya Donnelly was also great in her time with Breeders and before that Throwing Muses.

Sid Krofft, Co-Creator of Mind-Blowing Kids TV Shows, Dies at 96 The puppeteer and his late brother Marty partnered on 'The Banana Splits Adventure Hour,' 'H.R. Pufnstuf,' 'Land of the Lost' and much more.

GenX, pour one out for one of the architects of our childhood

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The incoming health minister of the future Magyar government, upon learning of the election results last night
(From Instagram)

How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

Congratulations to the people of Hungary!

I live near there, so came home early to avoid the worst

*practice run

He’s going to his vineyard, so south of town will be hit particularly hard.

Ospreys and helicopters were having a proactive run on Wednesday.

That is absolutely fantastic!

I am sorry you are having to go through all of these traumas, Jake. I hope your sisters both recover soon. I don’t have any answer, either, but thank you for sharing this.

digital scan of a page from a design book, with multicolor illustrations of a crab (top) and fish (bottom) each framed in an octogonal shape "Hisui Sosaku Zuanshu is a collection of creative designs by graphic designer SUGIURA Hisui (1876-1965), who was a pioneer of modern design in Japan." "This is a collection of designs created by graphic designer Hisui Sugiura. It was published in 1926 (Taisho 15) after his studies in Europe. Hisui's design collections, including 'Hisui Flower and Bird Designs' which is listed in the NDL Image Bank, went out of print after the Great Kanto Earthquake. This collection was created to supplement those collections, with Sugiura gradually drawing and accumulating designs. It features new motifs that reflect the results of his studies in Europe, such as bold diagonal lines and compositions that place figures within straight lines."

#TwoForTuesday:
#Crab & #Fish by pioneering Japanese graphic designer Hisui Sugiura (杉浦 非水, Sugiura Hisui; 1876-1965) from Hisui Sosaku Zuanshu, 1926, a collection of designs created after his studies in Europe.
National Diet Library Japan:
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#JapaneseArt #GraphicDesign

Oh, but I’ll be using “American horse pirate” and “stab rabbit” nonetheless. Nicely done.

I think the most important issue of authorship is communicating to the reader who did the work, not who needs the credit. In the one case where I included a posthumous coauthor, I did note in the acknowledgements that he had passed before he could see the completed work.

Project Hail Mary is a beautiful brilliant film. But molecular biologists be warned there's a deeply disturbing scene midway through when Ryan Gosling's scientist places two eppendorfs directly next to each other in an otherwise empty unbalanced microcentrifuge & sets it spinning with wild abandon.

No. 10 Virginia takes down No. 2 Iowa in a 2OT thriller 🔥

It is the Cavaliers' first trip to the Sweet Sixteen since 2000.

I have an older version of these. They work well.

Sometimes other things drive it (a NTT person getting a TT position, family reasons, etc). But I hear you. I’m definitely glad my move, which had that similar grant situation, was in 2024.

Could you maintain an appointment (visiting, courtesy, etc) at your “old” institution so that the grant could be awarded there after your move if need be and then transferred?

I don’t think I can pick just one Steely Dan song…

I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14 How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research

This is an incredible documentation of the systematic, intentional collapse of American health science, by Elizabeth Ginexi.

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It’s gonna be a pretty solid weekend if social media is flooded with clips of Laura Loomer getting her ass handed to her in-person by Indian journalists. Shout-out to Rajdeep Sardesai for kicking off the festivities.

We deposed the Iranian leadership back in the 1950s…much of our ongoing conflicts with Iran stem from the fallout from that event. No lessons learned…

I really appreciate this TikToker with Tourette syndrome, Shay, for taking the time to educate so many of us (including me) about her disability and coprolalia in light of what happened at the BAFTAs with John Davidson when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage.

I learned a lot.

I’m glad you escaped

Wow, that’s ugly. Was it one of those situations where the health system policies completely subsumed any consideration of research?

I am so happy I was able to escape Florida, and feel for my former university colleagues that have to put up with this degradation of education and research.