I listen to a lot of podcasts, but over the past six months only one has consistently rated “must-never-ever-miss-an-episode”: WNYC’s RadioLab. Here’s the show’s self-description:
Radiolab believes your ears are a portal to another world. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience. Big questions are investigated, tinkered with, and [...]
Breaking my blogging hiatus here to pass on word about a virtual class my wife has set up. We’ll be reading through and discussing Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid using M.I.T.’s Open Courseware. Here’s the course description:
How are math, art, music, and language intertwined? How does intelligent behavior arise [...]
This must be why mystics and poets record /
The slender incursions of splintered light, /
Echoes, fragments, odd words and phrases /
Like flashes through darkened hallways. - Rod Jellema