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...cups of tea and stuff." The result of his labors weaves together the comfortable sounds of 1970s and '80s kids' TV shows - ambling Charlie Brown-style piano and cop-show car-chase music - with more conventional pop influences. Guitars owe a debt to U.S. alternative legends Sonic Youth, the strings to Bollywood, and rhythms recall Motown and break beats. "I've always quite liked that [retro kids' TV] feel, but I'd always want to make it more dirty in some way," says Parton. "If you are going to have recorders, make them distorted." It's a potentially disastrous...
...dimensions. This is hardly a pedestrian concept to the average reader, but Randall makes these abstractions accessible by inserting fictional passages and popular song lyrics at the head of each chapter. With this popularizing cover, Randall charts the history behind current theoretical physics, moving from Newton to Einstein to string theory to her own work. And she suggests that new discoveries await in the not-so-distant future. At the same time, she recollects her own experiences as a theoretical physicist, enlivening her prose with references to afternoons spent at Toscanini’s (the MIT branch, not the Harvard...
...Night at the Hip-Hopera” and ccc’s “Revolved.” Otherwise, I just put iTunes on party shuffle and see what comes up: obscure musicals (“Blood Brothers”), Patsy Cline, the Yonder Mountain String Band, a Brazilian band called Skank, the Pillows, the Notre Dame Glee Club, the fabulousness that is 80s pop, a gay country duo called Y’ALL... My aunt and uncle are musicians (my aunt Kristi Rose started out in the New York rockabilly scene in the mid-80s; my uncle Fats...
...among this year’s inductees. “It is part of the American tradition of valuing sciences and arts and it is a great honor for me, especially coming from the different background of Iran,” he said. Vafa described the work in string theory for which he was elected as, “an area of physics that attempts to explain the fundamental laws of nature and the only theory we know of where quantum theory and gravity can coexist in a mathematically consistent framework.” Alfred L. Goldberg, professor of cell...
...narrow escapes from arrest over three years on the run. He twice slipped out the back doors of houses minutes before police arrived, and he was once waved on by a policeman who had stopped to check motorcyclists leaving a bombing site; the officer failed to recognize Azahari. The string of narrow misses continued on Friday when police in East Java, across the Bali Strait, said they had likewise missed capturing Nurdin by a few hours. According to local press reports, police were certain of his whereabouts but waited several hours before raiding the house because they were "worried...