A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
An evening pause: From the late 1950s, Alastair Cooke introduces Les Paul and Mary Ford, who then demonstrate some advanced music technology (and some smokin’ music) that would only become commonplace in the coming decades.
An evening pause: For anyone who has ever attended a science conference and listened to the presentations there, this presentation embodies that experience better than any I have ever seen. It was so good it won an Ig Noble award.
If you want to read the whole paper, you can find it here [pdf].
An evening pause: As my wife Diane said after watching this, “Gee, I wish I had had a cool dad like that.”
An evening pause: How about some amazing piano jamming by Ronald Jenkees.
An evening pause: Yesterday I showed the rehearsal. Here’s their live performance of “Under Pressure” at the Freddie Mercury tribute, April 20, 1992.
An evening pause. As Arthur Clarke once said, “Any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic.”
An evening pause: Elbow recorded live at Abbey Road Studios with the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Chantage choir. Broadcast on BBC Radio 2, 31st Jan 2009.
An evening pause: On George Washington’s birthday, an excerpt of a speech by David McCullough from September 27, 2005. As McCullough notes, even King George III himself knew the measure of the man. “He will be the greatest man in the world.”
An evening pause: On the fiftieth anniversary of John Glenn’s orbital flight.
After putting a chimpanzee into orbit in November, NASA finally felt ready to send a man into orbit to answer the Soviets and their two manned orbital missions of Gagarin and Titov the previous year.
After Glenn’s mission and for the next few months, it looked like the U.S. was catching up with the Soviets in space. That would change before the year was summer was over.
The video below gives a nice summary of key moments in Glenn’s flight, though the special effects of the “fireflies” is poorly done. And we now know that the “fireflies” were nothing more than frozen particles of condensation coming off the capsule.
An evening pause: How about some really wild guitar playing by Preston Reed?
An evening pause:
I have a place where dreams are born,
And time is never planned.
It’s not on any chart.
You must find it with your heart.
Never never land.
An evening pause: How things will be built and manufactured in the future, on Earth and in space, though in space they probably won’t use concrete.
