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...Blues for Zoos concert at the Franklin Park Zoo last Saturday, I went expecting soulful ballads and tearful, aching, "When I lost my lover" types of songs. What I heard there taught me that the Blues is not just Lady Day crooning in a darkened, smoke-filled, hole-in-the-wall nightclub, although that is a part of it. No, the Blues varies from James Brown to the gospel troup Blind Boys from Alabama. It goes from funk to jazz to rock-n-roll to country. But all of these are not subsets of the Blues. I suppose they...
...splintered Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet. The eighth fragment, K, produced another huge fireball that lifted from the planet and grew to three times the size of Earth. Calculations of yesterday's damage from Fragments G and H are still being made. But astronomers are predicting that the huge hole called a black eye, which was caused by G, may become an even more distinguishing feature than Jupiter's Great Red Spot...
...psychopath, says Dr. Solomon Snyder, director of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins Medical School. "It's not as though these people weren't disciplined by their parents or didn't go to church. They can think rationally, but the moral judgment is lacking. It's as if there's a hole in the moral part of their brain...
...thanks to Phineas Gage, scientists will know where to search for that hole. It is surely where they will look when studying the brain -- donated to science -- of serial killer John Wayne Gacy, executed last May in Illinois. Suppose a Gage-like defect is found? Will it seem fair to have executed the man if he was physically incapable of moral judgment? As science begins to unravel bits of personality, accountability unravels with it. The person becomes his parts -- some working, some defective through no fault of his own. Will it become incumbent upon society to submit all killers...
...human backside also gets a dozen pages. It is instructive to realize that a man can be so stupid that he doesn't know his a -- -- from a musket (earliest citation, 1862), his elbow, a hole in the ground, a stalk of bananas, a hot rock, Mammoth Cave, a hole in the wall, third base, his left foot, pork sausage, the back side of a checkerboard, ice cream or a pitchfork...