Word: mozarts
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...basing planting and harvesting schedules on the position of the moon, sun and stars. It's full of colorful details like burying a cow horn filled with manure at the autumnal equinox. One Italian biodynamic vintner has even placed loudspeakers around his vineyards. Although he claims that playing Mozart makes his vines grow quicker and healthier, the more perceptible result of blaring Symphony No. 40 in G Minor is that it scares the bejesus out of grape-stealing deer, boars and birds...
...There were some actual stars in the ballroom - O.K., so there was Ed Begley Jr. and a bunch of guys who looked like Kenny Rogers. An alarmingly large number of scientists from Austria received awards. Apparently the people who gave the world Mozart and World War I are really good at making wireless camera lens controls. We tried to pin them down as part of some kind of vast, Austro-techie conspiracy, but, like the rest of the contented crowd at this Oscars, the Austrians were too friendly to root against...
...make sure that in a world of Disney and Barney, his baby Elijah, now 5, will be cool (and thus that Dad will remain so). He home schools the boy in hipster culture, taking him to blues shows and playing him a curated collection of punk. Goodbye, Baby Mozart; hello, Baby Ramone...
...Makes Us Different?" [Dec. 4], I was struck by the idea that the blueprint for the great achievements of humanity may be encoded in the nucleotides of our DNA. But is it possible that the source of human creativity is simply beyond our comprehension? When I marvel at a Mozart adagio or Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling, I simply cannot grasp how each artist accomplished what he did. Human genius amazes because it is a mystery; if science could explain how genius came to be, the wonder would be gone. Nathaniel M. Campbell Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts...
...forget that the slim 1% difference between humans and chimps that gave us Mozart, Einstein and Socrates is also responsible for serial killers, totalitarian despots and greasy-palmed politicians. Darin Kourajian Locust Grove, Georgia...