Alexander Lobrano's description of a trip to a cheesemaking region in France [http://nyti.ms/1vkDvT1] stopped me in my tracks. > Two summers ago, in a village outside Coulommiers, an old market town an hour east of Paris, an old love affair of mine came back to…
At The New York Times, Bob Morris says an email note is more and more considered acceptable for some thank-yous [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/fashion/18age.html]. > Even back then, Ms. Post acknowledged that letter writing was a chore. > Today, those who hate writing thank-you…
Animation accompanies a recording of Tennyson reading *The Charge of the Light Brigade.*via PoetryReincarnations [http://youtu.be/MkqUq26z1CE]…
> A Robotic Helper for Grandpahttp://t.co/gmqkufQSiW — MIT Tech Review (@techreview) October 27, 2014 [https://twitter.com/techreview/status/526731407620837379]…
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Haven't posted about bread in a while. Here's a nice tribute to a skill that's foreign to me from The New Yorker [http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/video-pretzel-croissant-city-bakery?utm_source=tny&utm_campaign=generalsocial&utm_medium=twitter&mbid=social_twitter]…
At the first What Makes It Great performance I've attended, Rob Kapilow, assisted by Yuliya Gorenman, absolutely nails it by labeling Schubert, my favorite composer, as the "poet of impermanence." Even after listening to as much of Schubert's music as I have, it was…
This thought got my attention yesterday for its beauty, and it got me thinking about the number of times a Persian poet showed up in a Zen stream. > "Poems are rough notations for the music we are." ~Rumi #quotes [https://twitter.com/hashtag/quotes?src=hash] — Zen…