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Eight marvelous and melancholy things I’ve learned about creativity.
Garbage Language: Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do?.
Grover reads The Monster at the End of This Book (2020).
A new search engine:https://www.privado.com/ (they don’t store searches or IPs!)
The difference between baking powder and baking soda thanks to Alton Brown.
How some cities ‘flattened the curve’ during the 1918 flu pandemic.
Notes From The Pandemic. A Diary of Struggling for Survival and Sanity in the Season of the Witch. I have contributed a few links to this effort.
The Week: What Caught Our Eye, including news that the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy were officially considered essential workers.
Little Tips for Better Video Chat (For Teachers…and Everybody Else).
The 12 most annoying co-workers you face on Zoom.
How Frasier Would Shelter in Place During the Coronavirus.
Some Good News with John Krasinski Ep. 2 – Zoom Surprise at 8:25.
Quarantine calls with Joe Buck.
“So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.” – Aldous Huxley
Study identifies a psychological factor linked to Trump supporters’ vindictiveness.
John Oliver takes a look at One America News, or OAN, a far-right news network being embraced by him at his coronavirus press events.
Now I Know
Why Does It Feel So Weird To Walk on a Stopped Escalator? and Putting a Happy Face On Trash and Badminton’s Sinister Secret and The Problem With Invisible Stone Boogers and Why Mario Has a Mustache and Keggy.
MUSIC
Movie: Sound City, America’s greatest unsung recording studio.
Movie: The Wrecking Crew, which I wrote about here.
Thank you, Adam Schlesinger. Stacy’s Mom – Fountains of Wayne.
Bill Withers, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee. Ain’t No Sunshine; Grandma’s Hands; Use Me; Lean on Me.
Coverville: 1304: Tributes to Fountains of Wayne & Bill Withers and 1303: Eric Clapton Cover Story.
Stay Away – Randy Newman.
Sing About It (The Wood Brothers) – Seizoenen koor Amsterdam.
Jubilie – Mary Chapin Carpenter (Songs From Home Episode 5).
Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd Cover) – MonaLisa Twins.
A suite from Catch Me If You Can – John Williams’s score.
Hard to Be the Bard – Christian Borle from Something Rotten.
Yellow River Concerto, themes composed by Xian Xinghai.
K-Chuck Radio: The Hits of Apryll Aileen.
Symphony No. 2 in D Major of Beethoven.
Music for The Creatures of Prometheus of Beethoven.
Coronavirus Blues – Middleburgh Minstrel (it’s all about the TP).
