by Minter Dial | Apr 17, 2009 | Entertainment
For those of you following this blog, you may know that among my interests is Astrophysics, with a focus on the String Theory, smoothly vulgarized in Brian Greene’s “The Elegant Universe.” (Here is Greene’s Faculty page at Columbia; and PBS...
by Minter Dial | Mar 18, 2009 | Entertainment, Politics
It took a little bit of exploration on dead.net and Rolling Stone to find out — substantially after the fact — that the [revised Grateful] Dead played for Obama in the Mid-Atlantic inaugural ball (20 Jan 2009). No one I know was in attendance or perhaps...
by Minter Dial | Mar 11, 2009 | Entertainment
Which tastes better: organic or conventional food? This Hammy the Hamster Goes Organic video (and especially the out-takes further below) is bound to produce a smile. And, if you are sensitive to the quality of the food you eat, then you could find the experiment of...
by Minter Dial | Feb 21, 2009 | Entertainment
by Minter Dial | Feb 7, 2009 | Entertainment, Environment
No longer acceptable in today’s eco-age, above is an appalling example of waste, right under my nose. This restaurant, COOK, located on our street corner at 27 avenue Niel (Paris 17e), blasts these 4 electric heaters out onto the pavement throughout the colder...
by Minter Dial | Feb 4, 2009 | Entertainment
This is a most enjoyable rendition of California Dreaming, played by a rather young Korean boy, Sungha Jung. Mesmorizing. And I found myself watching it over and over, not just because I was trying to learn to play the song. As of this day, there have been over 2...
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