Ancient Astronomers
The following is an article from the book Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Plunges Into the Universe.
Astronomy wasn’t invented a couple of hundred years ago. The study of stars is almost as old as humanity itself.
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The oldest and most famous cave paintings (16,000 to 20,000 years old) are in Lascaux, France. [...]
The Most Influential Musician You’ve Never Heard Of
For a guy who was a major pioneer of rock ‘n’ roll and rap, not to mention the music video, Louis Jordan is criminally underappreciated.
During the 1940s and early 50s, the saxophone-playing singer and bandleader had a whopping 54 hits (18 of them reached #1) in a style called jumpin’ jive. A high-spirited amalgam [...]
The Late Movies: The Bo Diddley Beat
The Bo Diddley beat, counted out as a two-bar phrase, goes a little something like this: “One and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and, etc.,” but you might know it better simply as an incessant, earth-shaking “Bomp, bomp, bomp…bomp, bomp” that gets pounded out through a song [...]
Eye Worm Loa loa filariasis
Stop right there. Don’t go any further. Some things can’t be unseen. You’re brain isn’t a hard drive from which you can permanently erase images. These images will sear into your neocortex, much to your eyeballs’ dismay. Scroll down to find out why. But if you don’t want to know why and you want to [...]
