- September 29, 2008 • 7:28 pm PDT
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support Women's Health for All
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Is Sweden's Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?
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What Would a Post-SOPA Internet Look Like?
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A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris' Poorest
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork
We've all heard that the music business is changing, and here, from The Times Online, is a chart to prove it. The red line at the top is the...
Here's David Bowie and Bing Crosby joining forces for an awesome Christmas duet in 1977. As you'll notice, this version of Little Drummer...
This week has seen a lot of tragedy, which is part of the reason I'm so grateful for In Bb 2.0 (that's "B-flat" for non-musicians), one of the...
The Vatican's official newspaper, L' Osservatore Romano, just published what it calls a "semi-serious" list of the 10 best rock albums of all...
Every year in the United Kingdom they rank the top record singles during the week before Christmas and anoint one song as the "Christmas number...
Mark Linkous, the singer, songwriter, guitarist, and all-around brilliant artist who played under the name Sparklehorse, used a gun to take his...
The record labels have missed the boat again. If these bloated behemoths had devoted the same amount of time and money to find creative in-house...
Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir is made up of 185 people sitting in front of their computers, singing. Their performance of "Lux Aurumque" is...
Back in 2007, Northwestern neuroscientist Nina Kraus led a team of researchers that showed that training in music as a youngster helps...
When the avant-garde composer John Cage noted that his eight-page 1985 composition "Organ²/ASLSP" should be played as slowly as possible, he might...
A tour of the Martin Guitar factory in Nazareth, Penn., is a glimpse into the rarefied world of craftsmanship and artistry behind some of the...
We're still going nuts over Ben Folds's live piano performance ode to Merton, who may or may not also be Ben Folds, wherein he signs into Chat...
When Captain Kidd was accused of "notorious piracies" in London in 1699 he ditched his captured ship, the Quedagh Merchant, in the Caribbean and...
A slow storm. That's how the photographer Michael Koehler describes the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. With some area waters closed to fishing...

When it comes to sexism, a politician has no choice but to convince the public that if his loyal wife believes him, we should, too.

A steamy, consensual affair and a creepy, unwanted sexual advance are completely different things.
Artist Levi van Veluw (LAY-vee vahn FAY-loo, roughly) creates works of art on his head. He paints it. He covers it in pebbles. He sets up a model...
You know to avoid the men in uniform walking around the parking lot of your dilapidated local mall, because they'll sneakily convince you to join...
Last August, Al Gore began training an army of minions to go out and do his climate change slide show for him, further proselytizing the masses to...
If a dolphin dies saving you from a terrorist, does that make it ok? Do you trust dolphins with the security of you and your country? If a...