I think Jonathan King’s “Everyone’s Gone to the Moon,” which reached the Top 4 spot in the UK pop charts in late July 1965, is a beautiful s...

Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who devised the technique to make derivatives of lysergic acid and who eventually synthesized lysergic aci...

Several news articles have appeared on the web this morning claiming that a roughly 11-minute video has been released for sale on the inter...

The title of my entry is taken from Benedict Anderson’s book, Imagined Communities (Revised Edition, Verso, 1991), and his discussion of me...

A Klee painting named “Angelus Novus” [1920; pictured] shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedl...

Red Clover ( Trifolium pratense )— a species of clover, native to Europe, western Asia and northwest Africa, but planted in many other regi...

As a tribute to Love’s masterpiece, Forever Changes (1967), (re) issued on CD on Tuesday this week as a (slightly late) two-disc 40th Anniv...

In respect to Earth Day 2008, I thought I'd write in honor of North America's oldest known living tree, the Methuselah Tree , a bri...

A few weeks ago I began to explore the mondegreen , the unintentional mishearing of a verbal utterance enabled by homophonic ambiguity. The ...

Whistle [OE. hwistle ] An act of whistling; a clear shrill sound produced by forcing the breath through the narrow opening made by contract...

The sad news arrived yesterday that British actress Hazel Court died at age 82. I never met her, although she was very supportive of my and ...

You never know what’s going to turn up at a Goodwill Store. While running a few quick errands late yesterday morning I thought I’d stop by a...