Mississippi John Hurt
You Got To Walk That Lonesome Valley
Spike Driver Blues
Candy Man Blues
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AC/DC new album – Black Ice
I bought AC/DC’s new album yesterday. Excellent stuff. Hopefully, a more detailed review when I have time. Meanwhile, these videos would have to suffice for the moment.
Rock N Roll Dream
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Anything Goes
War Machine
Stuff I’ve Read
Two Words the Rich Fear Most: Margin Call. Or why you shouldn’t put all your eggs in one basket.
The Body as Bacterial Landlord. Or why antibiotics is bad for you.
Get Out of Your Own Way. Or why you make better decisions when you don’t ponder too hard, e.g. when you are distracted.
Our Visual System has “Future Seeing Powers”
Excerpt from Matthieu Ricard: Meet Mr Happy:
“If you have a society of selfish people, combined one-to-one with altruistic people, theoretically the altruists should be wiped out. But altruists can co-operate. Which gives them a strong advantage. That is the cause of hope.”
Stuff I’ve Read
From Pink Floyd Makes Chickens Shiver with Pleasure:
In one widely cited study,’ writes Steven Johnson in his book about the neuroscience of everyday experience Mind Wide Open, ‘he [Pankepp] played dozens of records to chickens attached to equipment designed to record their shivers of pleasure. The chickens turned out to have the strongest positive response to the late-era Pink Floyd record The Final Cut.’ This is important information since, from an evolutionary perspective, if spirituality really is biological, that biology should be found not just in human beings but lower orders as well.
Does Memory Reside Outside the Brain
Spy Fears: Twitter Terrorists, Cell Phone Jihadists. The possibilities are chilling. I hope that any intel folks reading this are monitoring twitter feeds.
Speed of Eating “Key to Obesity”
Tape measure: X-rays detected from Scotch tape
Scott Brown on Facebook Friendonomics
Via Reality Carnival:
George Van Eps & Howard Alden
In these videos, you’ll see masters of 7-string harmony in action.
Stompin’ at the Savoy
Night and Day
Moon Glow
