January 2009
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To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their...
– Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address
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Where the churning electronic sound, with its fizzes and echoes and underwater...
– Pitchfork gives Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion a 9.6
15 Evolutionary Gems
The discovery of Indohyus, an ancestor to whales.
The discovery of Tiktaalik, an ancestor to tetrapods.
The origin of feathers revealed in creatures like Epidexipteryx.
The evolution of patterning mechanisms in teeth.
The developmental and evolutionary origin of the vertebrate skeleton.
Speciation driven indirectly by selection in sticklebacks.
Selection for longer-legged lizards in...
2008 sounded like ...
That 2008 “best of” band …
… basically sounds like …
… circa:
Crystal Castles
Kraftwerk
1981
Crystal Stilts
Velvet Underground
1968-69 (“quiet” period)
Beach House
Mazzy Star
1993
Lykke Li
Björk? (does she have a less talented sister?)
1995
School of Seven Bells
Lush
1990
Hercules and Love Affair
Pet Shop Boys
1988-ish
Ben Sisario (via)