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Hello everyone. Jad here. I wanna tell you real quick about my experience hallucinating the sound of bees. And Fleetwood Mac.
For a disturbing, but thought-provoking video clip that investigates the brain-body connection, check out Jonah Lehrer's blog for an entry he calls "The Poetry of Decapitated Dogs." In our show "Where Am I?" we heard all sorts of stories about when the brain and body connection gets screwy... but we never thought to take it quite this far.
Arthur C. Clarke, the author of the book '2001: A Space Odyssey,' which became a Stanely Kubrick movie, died yesterday. Clarke was a visionary science fiction writer who foresaw the use of satellites for communications and planted a seed of wonder and awe in the universe for many young kids, including me.
Here's the first installment of 'Music Lab.' A place on the blog where Jad gets to play some of his favorite music and tell you why he likes it. Take a listen.
Apparently the biggest factor in the amount of sleep we get is whether or not we have a job. Earlier this week, the Washington Post featured an article on a new report, 'Not So Deprived: Sleep in America, 1965-2005,' that found that employment status had a greater effect on sleep than age, race, or sex.
The genes of all living things are made of DNA. And DNA is made of four chemicals, called A, T, C, and G. These days, scientists can read those 'letters' of DNA for any creature (including you and me). And they can make strands of DNA from jars of A, T, C, and G. In fact, scientists now have databases of thousands of different genes, written in letters, for functions like 'glow in the dark,' or 'metabolize glucose,' or any number of traits or talents.
Why would a goat stand on a cow? And what on earth does this question have to do with hundreds of mysterious letters from homesick soldiers? We can't exactly promise definitive answers. But we can promise one heck of a good detective story. The story inspired listener Brett Miller to make this incredible drawing of the 'Cordial Cow.' We love it.
Brain scans give us a whole new way of explaining how and why we do the things we do. But while brain scans can help scientists understand how the person inside the scanner thinks, they also make those of us outside the scanner a little bit less savvy.
Recently, Radiolab received an email in response to the show Mortality.
Are we living on borrowed time today? Should we celebrate having an extra day in 2008? One tradition apparently marked Leap Day as a time for women to propose to men (and no, February 29th is not Sadie Hawkins Day). I for one would love to start a tradition of writing yourself a letter every February 29th, not to be opened until the following Leap Year. And I thoroughly support the idea of wishing one another a 'Happy Bissextile Day.' Not to mention listening to Time and Beyond Time. And if you still have some extra time on your hands, check out this website on calendars.
Jonah Lehrer, a frequent Radio Lab contributor, had some interesting things to say on his blog about a topic we've explored, the placebo effect.
Listener Louie forwarded us this re-mix of the episode "Musical Language". Thanks Louie!
Is this what you're wondering? We thought so. The season four shows will be available to download after they air in New York.
The 'brain in a vat' thought experiment reminds us of issues we wrestled with in a past episode . What is the connection between brain and body? If your brain was placed in a jar and wired to a computer that simulates the outside world, how could you prove that your beliefs about the world aren't all false?
At the Radiolab premiere last week, we were honored to have Brooklyn band One Ring Zero. They are celebrating their 10th anniversary at Joe's Pub in few short days. Got tickets?
Our big, warm thanks to all the folks who turned out last night to the Angelika Film Center to hear the premiere of our new season. We were STUNNED to see how many of you there were! And it broke our hearts to turn away so many folks, people who'd been waiting for hours, people who'd driven for hours (from as far away as Boston!). Having never done anything like that before, we weren't sure what to expect. We learned a lot about what to do differently - distribute tickets ahead of time by mail! - and we learned that a lot of people love our scrappy, guerrilla public radio show that comes on the air every now and again like some flock of migrating birds, and they want to come together to hear it.
A person named Jason responded to our post about earworm remedies with the following:
'These days, with music being everywhere, I seem to just jump from song to song. Usually, whatever I heard last is still kicking around in my head. Not for long though. The next song is usually ...
When we were working on the Laughter episode, we ran across an interesting study about the relationship between laughter and power. Tyler Stillman, a psychologist at Florida State University, did a series of studies showing that laughter isn't always about how funny something is. He found that when a ...
Many of you have written in about our piece on Clive Wearing, the man who all of a sudden lost his ability to make new memories. His life--what it's actually like to live a day to day existence without being able to remember anything for more than a few seconds--is difficult to envision... and it raises infinite questions for us about how memory really works.
Just wanted to let you know: Robert and I were interviewed for The Sound of Young America, a great public radio show hosted by Jesse Thorne. He's got a good radio voice, that one. And he uses that radio voice to ask insightful radio questions.


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Where rubber leaves the road
December 1, 2014 By Paul Carlsen @pbcarlsen
After hitting three deer and driving twice into a ditch during whiteouts last winter, I can commiserate with the driver of this car. It's been a tough year. The driver and his son weren't killed or even seriously injured after their car flipped down the hill, giving new meaning for going down to the river to pray. The picture of the car reminds me of a line in The Fate of the Edsel, a great story in Business Adventures by John Brooks. A reviewer of the Edsel wrote that he couldn't help but wonder what "this salami" would really do with more road adhesion. If the Edsel kept its rubber on the road, John Brooks never would have written Fate of the Edsel and Business Adventures might not have Warren Buffett and Bill Gates proclaiming it the best business book of all time.
Where the rubber leaves the road is where the story turns interesting. No one was taking pictures of the cars that stayed in their lane. Ford executives blamed the Russians for launching sputnik at the same time of the Edsel launch. A semanticist, writing a nasty review of the Edsel for A Review of General Semantics in 1958, compared automobiles to words "as important symbols in American cultures," then asked why buy the Edsel when you can get Playboy for 50 cents. By the late 1950s, even the Russians thought they were getting the better of this American salami.
The Edsel was considered a symbol of the times in America- "clumsy, powerful, dowdy, gauche, well meaning." So what if some of the advertising failed the reality principle. Sometimes a sledgehammer, not a tooth pick touch, was required for operating all the fancy dashboard gadgets. Hundreds of names were considered for the car. Overruling the market research, executives preferred to suck up to the boss and named the car for Edsel Ford.
But it was in 1957 that more powerful words became symbols. The words were written by a poet in Russia and nearly published in Ann Arbor, home of the Ford executive plotting the Edsel. The University of Michigan initially acquired the rights to the manuscript, to the horror of the CIA. Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago was smuggled out of Russia and the CIA wanted the manuscript published in Europe, without any evidence of American or CIA involvement in the publication. After much pressure from the CIA, the University of Michigan relinquished the rights. Doctor Zhivago was published in Italy in November of 1957 and earned Pasternak the Nobel Prize. Surviving two world wars, revolution, Lenin and Stalin, Pasternak wrote the poem Hamlet with the famous line "life is no stroll through a field." In The Zhivago Affair, written by Peter Finn and Petra Couvee, Stalin in 1932 makes a toast to a group of writers meeting at the home of Maxim Gorky- "The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks." Stalin demanded Russian writers use their words as engineers on the assembly line- massing producing souls to Stalin's specification like the Ford executives poured over details of the Edsel.
It was this "loss of faith in the value of one's own opinion" that Pasternak risked his life in writing Doctor Zhivago. It was why the CIA's Soviet Division, many of them with backgrounds in literature, believed in the power of words and turned "priests, athletes, students, businessmen, tourists, soldiers, musicians, and diplomats" into book publicists for Pasternak. All levels of society were targeted. Russian truck drivers had Doctor Zhivago thrust into their hands. The mass production of souls went down with the Edsel.
Running uphill has benefits
October 26, 2014 By Paul Carlsen @pbcarlsen
One of the benefits of maturity is using misery as a teachable moment to oneself. After missing most of the nice weather running events with a bad knee, I thought the Mackinac Island Great Turtle Trail Run would be a nice and easy run. Mulling the half marathon while wiggling the knee, I found the convenient rationale for selecting the 5.7 mile trail run instead. I also discovered that stomping the knee in frustration doesn't work as a cure. All the excuses also don't work. I listened to everyone around me at the start of the 5.7 trail run explain their litany of excuses why they signed up for the 5.7 rather than the half marathon. It takes one to know one. I recognized that I was in my own tribe when I heard my thoughts coming from their mouths on why the big event failed to get the applicant. Maslow's hierarchy of needs, from a literary perspective, begins with Ring Lardner's Alibi Ike, Arthur Miller's Willy Loman, and works up to Herman Melville's Captain Ahab. First chuck alibis, advance to chuck the spears out there in the blue. A neighbor recognized me and said she watched me run the same route at home and had to introduce herself. This was teachable moment number one. I ran the simple, flat five mile route without the slightest variation. It led to injury and complacency. I rarely saw my neighbor running this route. She entered the half marathon with her daughter. She was too nice to smirk. My expectation for something easy began straight uphill and continued through the trails and more hills, realizing this course was perhaps payback for signing up for the short run.
The car miles have outnumbered by one hundred to one the miles on my running shoes this year. Alibi Ike laced up in the Asics for a big year, but darn if all these alibis keep stopping him. Teachable moment number two- doing the work daily, regardless the duration, strengthens the mind and body and the work habits far more than these plans for the weekend warriors. I wasn't sure what was weaker as I ran uphill- my mind or my legs. But this isn't about running.
One of the most memorable sights that I saw at the bottom of the hill this year was a shack, surrounded on all sides by liquor stores and abandoned buildings. The shack was in a neighborhood that assaulted your eyes with advertisements for alcohol, lottery, food stamps, and ruin porn. There weren't any windows on the shack, which was probably a good thing, considering the view. A large banner was nailed to the shack with the message "All Things Are Possible." The race to the bottom ended here.
The view at the top of the hill on Mackinac Island was worth the effort. I had walked around the island and up the hills for two hours before the race and went to the start line already tired but convinced the race to the bottom is for losers. I will be back next year for the half marathon, or Alibi Ike dies.
Wounded trees and wounded men
July 22, 2014 By Paul Carlsen @pbcarlsen
This poor little tree needs imagination to make something of it. You have to really think of the gale winds, worst snow and ice storms in a century, heavy rains, the birds and deer scattering for protection, freighters for the steel mills backing off. All that's left is the lighthouse next to the tree, more than one hundred years of storms in its history. This tree, along with the one hundred year anniversary of the start of World War One, brings to mind the quote "wounded trees and wounded men." In The Great War and Modern Memory, Paul Fussell writes of British soldier and front line survivor, David Jones, and his World War One epic poem In Parenthesis. "The awful vulnerability of both man and nature- and their paradoxical privilege of glory- is what Jones learned at the front.' Wounded trees and wounded men,' he says, 'are very much an abiding image in my mind as a hang-over from the war.'" The battered landscape speaks "with a grimly voice." The warning in its scars: "We are on a hazardous advance toward's No Man's Land and the unknown world beyond it."
The vulnerability of man and nature says it well. The decline of the farm and rural life is shocking out here. The rural "ruin porn" doesn't get nearly the attention of a Detroit. But Detroit always shocks me more, a concrete battlefield marking the collapse of an era that began with World War One and mass production. Detroit bulldozed many of its trees and poured concrete to become the arsenal of democracy. Its scars are in the concrete and decay of abandoned buildings. Homeless women,sitting on broken concrete, their sunburned faces dusty orange and craggy, hold up signs for help that the motorists ignore. The United Nations criticizes plans to shut off water to thousands of Detroiters who can't pay the water bill. Lake Huron, Detroit's indifferent neighbor, might as well be on the other side of the world. Crime has made many areas of Detroit a No Man's Land, its fate left to nature to heal. The big dreams of urban planners have died many times in the concrete landscape. Even the trees are now fighting off invasive species.
Detroit is still hockey town, and that means there will always be admiration for the Russians, regardless of who occupies the Kremlin. There are other similarities to Russia in the Upper Midwest, beginning with the winters. The Russian writers are my favorites. Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate has none of the romance that made World War One a "literary war." Grossman's World War Two classic also includes the trees: "Once, when I lived in the Northern forests, I thought that good was to be found neither in man, nor in the predatory world of animals and insects, but in the silent kingdom of the trees. Far from it! I saw the forest's slow movement, the treacherous way it battled against the grass and bushes for each inch of soil…in time the deciduous trees become decrepit; then the heavyweight spruces burst through the light beneath their canopy, executing the alders and the beeches. This is the life of the forest- a constant struggle of everything against everything. Only the blind conceive of the kingdom of trees and grass as the world of good..is it that life itself is evil?" Hitler and Stalin will make you ask those kind of questions. The wounded trees and wounded men want to know.
But it's this constant struggle in the forest that builds resilience. The forest, unlike the concrete, contains life with all its pain and glory. The forest fights back against the invasive species. Kids wander the streets of Detroit, their world almost entombed in the lifeless concrete. The suburbs fare a little better. The water bills are paid. But there is submission to the cement boundaries. Of all the sights witnessed on these roads, two made the biggest impression, and contrast. In the cement jungle of the suburbs, a boy stands meekly with his father while waiting for the school bus. The weather is perfect. The school is less than a quarter mile from where the boy waits with his parent. But he chooses not to walk the short distance alone to school. The bus must take him. While in northern Michigan, a girl comes out of the forest, jogging at a fast clip. The weather is terrible. It's forty degrees and raining hard. I will never forget the expression on her face. She smiled when she saw me watching her. She looked free, unlike the boy in the suburbs.
Everything gives rise to obedience- both hope and hopelessness, writes Grossman in Life and Fate. Rebellion begins with the trees.
Sleepwalking through history
May 18, 2014 By Paul Carlsen @pbcarlsen
Yale historian Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands is a brutal book about what Hitler and Stalin did to Eastern Europe. One statistic explains the murderous machine of Hitler and Stalin- children born in Soviet Ukraine in 1933 had a life expectancy of merely seven years. Hitler couldn't match the early brutality of Stalin. The constraints of World War One forced Hitler to catch up with Stalin which he did with the words of an SS officer: "The more of these bastards go down, the fewer of them we'll have to feed." A child in Ukraine, after losing his entire family to Stalin's genocide, said weakly before succumbing, "Everything dies." Everyone lied as millions perished. An honest person suffered the most and died first. Walter Duranty of the New York Times won the Pulitzer Prize for writing lies to cover for Stalin's genocide. Malcolm Muggeridge was one of the courageous few, writing Stalin's genocide was "one of the most monstrous crimes in history, so terrible that people in the future will scarcely be able to believe that it happened." George Orwell witnessed the monstrous lies in the Bloodlands where twenty million perished through the actions of Hitler and Stalin to eradicate the right to be human.
No book about World War One can match Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers and combined with Bloodlands, makes events in Russia and Ukraine seem like reliving a terrible history. In the buildup to World War One, diplomats complained, "Russian diplomacy was one long and manifold lie." The British empire was fading and economic trade had also the seductive effect of making bribery a convenient tool for the enemies of capitalism. The "security dilemma" meant as one government improved its defense to ensure security, other countries felt more insecure and built their defenses until the network of odd alliances only needed a trigger to begin the killing fields of World War. That trigger was the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand on June 28, 1914. A team of young assassins plotted to kill Archduke Ferdinand and his wife Sophie. The first assassin threw his bomb and missed, took weak cyanide that failed to kill him, jumped off a bridge into a river too shallow to drown him, and delegated the act of war to his teammate assassin who succeeded in killing the archduke and his wife. But not before the archduke, after escaping the first bomb, was forced to listen to the mayor of Sarajevo make prepared remarks, exclaiming in shock, "All the citizens of Sarajevo find that their souls are filled with happiness and most enthusiastically greet your highness.." The mayor was too stunned to change his speech. The archduke shouted back at him, "I come here as your guest and you greet me with bombs!" Then the second assassin's bullets struck.
Michigan's military museum in Frankenmuth is filled with stories and memorabilia of Michigan soldiers from World War One to the War on Terror. The Polar Bear Unit, nearly all from Michigan, was sent to northern Russia at the end of World War One to help fight the new communist government. More than 200 in the Polar Bear Unit were killed and hundreds wounded in fighting near the Arctic Circle. World War Two and Vietnam cover more walls. Duane Hackney, of Flint, enlisted in the Air Force. Hackney had more than 200 pararescue missions in the Vietnam War, earning Airman of the Year, the Cheney Award, Air Force Cross, Silver Star, 4 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 18 Air Medals, and dozens more medals. Another wall and more stories in the glass cases of the local Green Berets and Special Forces soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Then you get to the story of James Thompson, an African-American from Detroit. Thompson had fought in World War Two and was an officer in the all black 24th infantry during the Korean War. He was taken prisoner, surviving 1004 days in a North Korean prison camp. His 24th infantry was accused of "running like rabbits" and "bugging out." His prison camp didn't have a roof or blankets. Many prisoners died in the below zero temperatures. The Korean War prisoners were criticized after the war for failing to escape. The Chinese took control of Camp 5 and put the white and black prisoners through indoctrination sessions. The Chinese failed to convert and turn the black soldiers but that didn't stop the critics at home from accusing the black POWs of Camp 5 from collaborating to receive preferential treatment. James Thompson wanted the truth told, that he and the POWs of Camp 5 served with honor and sacrifice.
As the sleepwalkers awoke to the horrors of World War One, California Senator Hiram Johnson said, "The first casualty, when war comes, is truth."
To build a fire
February 20, 2014 By Paul Carlsen @pbcarlsen
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal explains the reasons for tiny Norway's historical excellence in the Winter Olympics. The country of five million, with a culture of egalitarianism, has won more than three hundred medals in the Winter Olympics. Kids younger than age 11 must be awarded the same prize. I heard a radio interview last week, while enduring yet another snowstorm, in which the commentator complained the problem with American kids today is that everyone is given a prize, regardless of their performance. His lament was Norway's most important trait, except for one important difference. Although Norwegian kids were all given the same prize, their training and competitions were never cancelled due to bad weather. These egalitarian kids showed up in the coldest temps, the worst weather, to learn their sport. The Norwegians embrace the beauty and hardship of the outdoors. The pain and cold of the wild trains the body and mind to become resilient. Cross country skiing, especially, demands endurance, years of practice, and high tolerance to pain. Cross country skiing is Norway's most dominant sport.
This winter began with a major ice storm, knocking out power for a week during Christmas, and about the same time that I had just finished reading Jack London's short story To Build a Fire. Then the snow came and hasn't stopped, breaking records across the state. While the New York Times runs stories about global warming and the disappearance of snow, poor Detroit gets buried in the white stuff. Another cold shoulder for the city once known for its mass egalitarianism.
Salon has an interesting article on "the hunt for the Great American Novel." The schlock of middlebrow culture, meaning the stuff that I like, throws snowballs at the elite writers creating art fiction in the post post-modern world. Realism and traditional narration are not admired in the pink Christmas tree society of the super novelists. The great writers of the past are viewed as boring cross country skiing compared to the daredevils on a snowboard. In defense of Jack London, he didn't take a class on frostbite, snow blindness, and malnutrition to research his stories. He lived it. Melville and Hemingway didn't google how to hunt whales and sharks.The Great American Novel is winning the gold medal in cross country skiing.
In Jack London's To Build a Fire, the protagonist possesses alertness to the "things of life" but fails to understand the significance. London suffered frostbite and scurvy while in the Klondike, writing to a friend that the Artic cold was a "vast white silence, as if all the earth lay still and stark dead in her white shroud waiting judgment day." Refusing to quit, London writes, "From the hunger of my childhood, cold eyes have looked upon me, or questioned, or snickered and sneered. What above all was that they were some of my friends- not professed but real friends. I have calloused my exterior and receive the strokes as though they were not; as to how they hurt, no one knows but my own soul and me. So be it. The end is not yet. If I die I shall die hard, fighting to the last, and hell shall receive no fitter inmate than myself. But for good or ill, it shall be as it has been- alone." While the flashy wordplay of the super novelist melts with the spring thaw, the significance of a great writer's words endures through all seasons.
The super technologist can also be like the protagonist in London's To Build a Fire, always connected, continually alert, but failing to comprehend significance. Take your hands off the steering wheel, allow the engineers in the gated communities of Silicon Valley do the driving, and the thinking, for you. Until the frightened deer runs in front of your car on a snowy night and you must make a decision that the engineers can't compute. The algorithms of Facebook, with much help from the Like and Click farms, create their own animal farms. The page views of the most popular sites resemble a flock of birds. I listened to another radio interview awhile ago in which an historian, I can't remember who, discussed his book about Britain between World War One and World War Two, and the false hopes the British had in technology solving their problems. Their optimism in technology turned to disillusionment with the Great Depression and the rise of Hitler. The Cold War doesn't appear to be over anytime soon. One of the best novels that I've read recently is Russian writer Mikhail Shisken's The Light and the Dark. The great ones can work in bad weather.
The dance for all seasons
December 12, 2013 By Paul Carlsen @pbcarlsen
The Frankenmuth colony didn't get off to a good start in the 1840s. The ship carrying the German missionaries ran aground. Storms and strong winds sent their ship into icebergs and the ship crashed a second time, into an English trawler on the Atlantic. The steamboat taking them from New York to Michigan somehow collided with a coal train. They finally arrived, sick with smallpox and malaria. Their spirits didn't improve when they saw the 650 acres along the Cass River purchased for less than two thousand dollars. Their new home was cold, desolate, barren of the human comforts they had been accustomed to in Bavaria. They would require courage to survive and named their new colony Frankenmuth for "Courage of the Franconians."
This "Christmas capital of the world" is also home to Michigan's Military and Space Museum. The flashy exhibits are elsewhere. These stories are about the African-American prisoner of war in Korea, longest serving prisoners of war in Vietnam, soldiers fighting in two wars (Korea, Vietnam), and the female local soldier killed in a roadside bomb. Owen Hammerberg was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1941. He was the last to receive the Medal of Honor for non-combat service before Congress changed the rules. He was a Navy diver who went down to rescue his mates trapped under sixty feet of water and mud. The sunken ship caved in on him, pinning him as he worked to rescue the two divers. He died shielding his mates. The historical society for this Christmas capital doesn't have an exhibit about the history of Santa and Saint Nicholas. Those are at Bronner's, the largest Christmas store in the world. You must go past the Christmas decorations and tourists flocking the Main Street to discover an exhibit on "The Hmong Among Us," the Vietnam War, the CIA's secret war in Laos, and the refugee camps. One of the local war heroes was the most decorated airman in the Air Force. Duane Hackney was a pararescue jumper and veteran of 200 missions in the Vietnam War. A YouTube video about him includes a comment from a Hmong who had fought in Laos with the CIA's legendary case officer Jerry "Hog" Daniels. It's an odd juxtaposition, like the large Nativity Scene here and a beer museum next to it. On one side the sunny disposition of decorations and ornaments and feelings of warmth, a temporary sense of escape from the real world. Farther down are the secret battles, prisoners, and rescuers. The authentic self must learn to dance in all kinds of weather. That's the meaning of this fountain in Frankenmuth celebrating the courage of the original settlers.
I was caught in a white out near midnight in northern Michigan. I followed the tail lights of the truck in front of me until his tail lights suddenly swerved across the two lane road and went into a ditch. He couldn't find the way back and drove almost into the trees. I watched him, amazed. I wasn't sure if I was still on the road but I sure knew he got off on the wrong exit. Suddenly he panicked, swerving back across the road and into another the ditch. The truck lurched back and forth as the driver tried to find his way onto the road. One moment, he's riding high in his $40,000 truck, secure about his place in the world. Then he's in a ditch and the snow is coming down hard on him, distorting his vision. Maybe he had on some Christmas songs and Christmas gifts in the back.Or else he was coming home drunk from a Christmas party. The German missionaries began their trip across the Atlantic with a drunk pilot.
There's a new biography of one of my favorites, Jack London. One of London's best stories is White Fang, about the Wild trying to conquer life and man: "…Life is an offense to it, for life is movement, and the Wild aims always to destroy movement. It freezes the water to prevent it running to the sea…" The land of Jack London is "vast, silent, desolate… so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even sadness…with laughter cold as frost…wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and effort of life…It was the Wild, the savage, frozen hearted Northland Wild." London's "wolfish dogs" are defiant of the elements, the cold harsh terrain.
There's defiance in the Frankenmuth fountain, a refusal to allow the hardship to break the early settlers. It's also hung on the walls of the Military and Space Museum. It keeps you warm when going out in the cold, and into the ditch.
Chekhov on Lake Huron
October 15, 2013 By Paul Carlsen @pbcarlsen
Alice Munro has been labeled Chekhov on Lake Huron. Jane Smiley described Munro's writing as quietly powerful, a good comment also for Lake Huron. If there was a Nobel Prize for Lighthouses, this one near Port Hope might have won a 2013 Nobel. Its light shines across Lake Huron, directly toward the familiar settings of Alice Munro's short stories. Jane Smiley writes in the Washington Post about Chekhov on Lake Huron: "Her voice was practically a whisper, saying: 'Look around you! Look within! But look closely, carefully. The world is more complex than you realize.'" There were only four comments, compelling one reader of the article to comment that Washington didn't have any culture, despite its pretensions. Or maybe the world is just too complex for the power brokers to understand.
This lighthouse doesn't attract a lot of tourists, although a Kickstarter project that concluded in summer will finance a film with the lighthouse as its centerpiece. The motels around here don't triple the rates for summer tourists like they do for the Lake Michigan side. The clerk near the silently powerful waters of Lake Huron asks what brings you here. On the Lake Michigan side, the motel clerk explains that all rooms are booked, even with triple rates. You're kidding, I said. Tourists, the clerk explained. Tourists? For what? I said. A young man held a "homeless war vet" sign as the tourists drove past him, saving their money for the inflated motels. A fat kid sticks his head in the car window and shouts at me, "We need a ride." It's a familiar shtick. The hustlers never seem to have car problems on the side of a road or highway. The car breaks down or runs out of gas in a perfectly parked high traffic spot just far enough from the front door to escape the looks from security. The kid lacks marketing skills. His eyes are hardened, like he has gotten too used to getting punched no in the face. The other person who makes it a "We need a ride" has stayed out of sight.
This lighthouse facing out across Lake Huron to Alice Munro doesn't promise a free ride. There's pain in this lighthouse. But its home base is named Port Hope. The lighthouse beams its own version of look around you! So I keep pad and pen in the car and write down descriptions of the fat kid's dark rings around his eyes and dirty brown shirt and the black woman sitting slumped over on the parking lot across from the homeless vet. The two of them are competing for dollars and mercy. She could be the kid's mother. Maybe I was wrong about it being a shtick.
Reading literature like Alice Munro is supposed to be good for the brain. The human brain prefers systems analysis and cheats to make it easier on the thinker. The culture is constantly priming us to think a certain way with its "cultural reminders." Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow explains the impact of the priming effect, the individual's conflict with life that causes ego depletion. Graham Greene said it more harshly in his novel Ministry of Fear: "Idealism had ended up with a bullet in the stomach at the foot of the stairs." Greene's novel was written during World War Two, a conflict with life resulting in the death of millions of egos.
Great literature must be in conflict with the world to compel the reader to think. Alice Munro's short stories grow on you. The "mystery and authority" of her Lake Huron are present to the end. There's a nagging feeling in many of the popular nonfiction books that something is missing. The narrative is too clean and tidy. Everything is primed to perfection in the author's thesis and world view. The collapse of the family, a shipwreck on the Great Lakes, a late inning grand slam, Hitler's rise to power, the bullet in the stomach at the foot of the stairs, don't compute.
It's almost a six hour drive from the fat homeless kid in the parking lot to the lighthouse near Port Hope. I pass the Amish farms and dozens of Amish are working on the farms and stacking massive wood piles. All the Amish look thin as a rake and resemble a lost tribe. The Amish are three hours and a couple centuries from metro Detroit. Some of them cheat and shop at Walmart. They have a stoic look and always keep to themselves. A group of Chinese visitors come in and stare at everything. The Amish ignore them. The fat kid should have gotten a ride with the Amish. The world is too complex for the rest of us.
There's a bear in my box
September 16, 2013 By Paul Carlsen @pbcarlsen
Marc Levinson's The Box was published seven years ago. The book's a classic about how the shipping container changed the world. The container revolution began in the 1950s during the Eisenhower era. Marc Levinson, an economist, puts a precise date on the first shot in this revolution. On April 26, 1956, a crane in New Jersey lifted 58 container boxers onto a ship to Houston and container traffic surged with new orders. The post World War Two era fitted perfectly, and more importantly, economically, into a container box. The Defense Department, led by business whiz and the very brightest of The Best and Brightest Robert McNamara, used containerization as a revolutionary logistical tactic to beat back the Communists in Vietnam. That was the plan. McNamara's logistical engineers created new supply lines to the other side of the world with containers, allowing the Vietnam War to continue for several more years, which wasn't part of the plan. Not everything fits in a box. Read Seth Godin's Poke the Box.
The Soo Locks in Michigan's Upper Peninsula is in the running for an 8th Wonder of the World contest sponsored by Virtual Tourist. Sleeping Bear Dunes is the other Michigan entry. The 11,000 ships that pass through the Soo Locks must navigate the 21 foot drop between Lake Superior and Lake Huron. The ship in the picture is 1,000 feet and transports mostly iron. The Locks are a remarkable engineering accomplishment but Sleeping Bear Dunes gets my vote for what the glaciers did in shaping this part of the Lake Michigan shoreline. Shaped by nature is preferred to containment.
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Fresh spring asparagus and salty, savory bacon are an unbeatable combination in this simple but satisfying quiche.
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Calories | 435 |
Total Fat | 29g |
Saturated Fat | 10g |
Cholesterol | 160mg |
Sodium | 785mg |
Total Carbohydrate | 24g |
Dietary Fiber | 1g |
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Protein | 19g |
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Yields: 6 main-dish servings
Total Time: 1 hr 30 min
Prep Time: 25 min
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- 1.25 cup(s) all-purpose flour, plus more for rolling
- 1/2 teaspoon(s) sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon(s) salt
- 6 tablespoon(s) cold vegetable shortening, cut up
- 3 tablespoon(s) (or up to 5 tablespoons) water
- 4 large eggs
- 1.25 cup(s) whole milk
- 1/2 teaspoon(s) salt
- 6 slice(s) thick-cut bacon, chopped
- 8 ounce(s) asparagus, sliced on an angle
- 1 cup(s) grated Gruyère cheese
- Make the crust: Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. In food processor, pulse flour, and 1/2 teaspoon each sugar and salt until combined. Add vegetable shortening; pulse until coarse crumbs form. Sprinkle in 3 to 5 tablespoons water, pulsing between additions until dough is just moist. Pat into disk. Cover with plastic wrap; freeze 30 minutes or refrigerate up to 2 days.
- On lightly floured surface, with floured rolling pin, roll dough into 11-inch round. Transfer to 9-inch pie plate. Trim off excess dough. Tuck edge of dough under and pinch to create rim. Crimp to decorate edge. Line dough with parchment paper or foil and fill with pie weights or dried beans. Bake 15 minutes. Remove liner and weights. Bake another 10 to 13 minutes, or until edge is golden and bottom is no longer raw. Cool slightly on wire rack.
- Make the custard: Whisk together eggs, milk, and 1/2 teaspoon salt.
- In 12-inch skillet, cook bacon on medium-high 8 minutes, or until crisp, stirring occasionally. With slotted spoon, transfer bacon to plate. To same skillet, add asparagus. Cook 2 minutes, stirring. Cool slightly. Stir bacon, asparagus and grated Gruyère cheese into custard. Pour into cooled quiche shell.
- Bake in 375 degrees F oven 35 to 45 minutes or until center is just set. Cool 15 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature.
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Like my snazzy new avatar? Get Sons of Zymurgy swag, here, and brew with the best.Revvy's one of the cool reverends. He has a Harley and a t-shirt that says on the back "If you can read this, the bitch was Raptured. - Madman I gotta tell ya, just between us girls, that Revvy is HOT. Very tall, gorgeous grey hair and a terrific smile. He's very good looking in person, with a charismatic personality... he drives like a ****ing maniac! - YooperBrew
I'm going to fake arthritis and the 'betis to get Three Floyds to brew a barleywine for my funeral.
Good for him....sounds like hard core stuff. Going out with a bang
Sounds like a brew to die for.
Scots. What more can I say. My dad was showing me only last night a bottle of beer from Orkney which is about 10% and matured in old whiskey casks. Version of Dark Island. Damn I miss the beers back there! Need to brew more!!!!
Sad, but good story. To relate this a bit to someone in my life,my grandpa was a winemaker for most of his life... and when he passed away, he had a ton of bottles of wine left in his basement. During the visitation, everyone that came in was treated to a cup of his wine. The funeral director (a family friend) got the be the taste tester for the opening of each bottle (to my grump's discredit, some of his wine could be mighty nasty), and got quite the buzz going by the end of the night. Though Grump passed away, the number of stories that were told and memories recounted... and tales of friends coming over and being tempted to a glass of wine.. that turned into a bottle of wine was a mighty fine way to celebrate his life.
Sure as hell wouldn't want to get an infection in THAT batch! I woulda done a Dead Guy clone if it were me. Great story!! He has my admiration!!!
Great story but very sad.
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Alex Duncan joins from Old Mutual
Just Retirement, the specialist UK life assurance group, has appointed Alex Duncan as chief risk officer.
Duncan joins from Old Mutual where he spent eight years in a number of positions including head of UK acquisitions, head of corporate finance and development and, for the last four years, director of finance – capital.
He has also had spells at Mercantile and General Reinsurance before moving to KPMG, Swiss Re New Markets and Lehman Brothers.
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Struggling Forfar's survival hopes suffered a setback as goalkeeper Greg Paterson's own goal condemned them to a 1-0 defeat at high-flying Dumbarton.
The first half was one of few chances, with the best opportunity falling to Forfar striker Dale Hilson as he fired wide from 12 yards.
Dumbarton gradually began to take control in the second half and were denied by a good save from Paterson, who punched away Alan Lithgow's close-range header.
Paterson would soon be the architect of Forfar's downfall however, as he diverted Scott Agnew's left-wing corner into his own net to put the home side ahead.
The keeper's error proved to be a fatal one as Dumbarton held on for a result that leaves Forfar just one point clear of the relegation play-off spot.
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Brill concurs, noting that rapidly progressing cellulitis would warrant hospital admission. One should also consider the possibility of a vascular problem as a comorbid concern, notes Dr. Cutrona. Dr. Karlock says the general health status of the patient also comes into play. For example, he would want to admit patients who are on renal dialysis for more aggressive treatment. The patient's social structure (specifically the availability of a caregiver) plays a role in making the decision to treat patients as outpatients or admitting them to the hospital. "If the patient has a good support system at home to treat this wound, we'll try to treat on an outpatient basis," explains Dr. Karlock. "However, if the patient has a poor social structure at home, admission into the hospital is usually more appropriate." Q: How do you approach the MRSA infected wound? A: Dr. Brill says MRSA and vancomycin resistant Staph aureus (VRSA) are becoming "alarmingly increasing" problems in the community he serves. More specifically, Dr. Karlock says MRSA accounts for upward of 40 percent of all Staph aureus isolates at one of the local hospitals in his area. Dr. Cutrona says 65 percent of the Staph aureus cases at his facility are MRSA. Dr. Brill says one should have a strong index of suspicion for MRSA when assessing patients who have diabetic wounds of long duration and a long history of single or multiple oral and/or topical antibiotic use. For these patients, Dr. Brill will pursue empiric treatment with vancomycin in the hospital and trimethoprim/sulphamethoxazole for outpatients. If the patients are allergic to sulphamethoxazole, Dr. Brill says he will substitute a tetracycline instead. Due to increasing resistance, Dr. Brill says he reserves daptomycin and linezolid for resistant cases. In these cases, he always obtains an infectious disease consult. MRSA strains are more prevalent in the hospital, according to Dr. Cutrona. He says these strains are resistant to most oral antibiotics and are sensitive to vancomycin, linezolid and rifampin. Dr. Cutrona says outpatient MRSA tends to be sensitive to the aforementioned antibiotics as well as doxycycline, clindamycin and trimethoprimsulfa. He emphasizes that treating MRSA is no different than treating penicillin- or methicillin-sensitive Staph aureus. If the wound involves deep structures, such as tendon, ligament or bone, Dr. Cutrona says IV antibiotics are necessary as well as aggressive surgical debridement. He emphasizes that clean surgical margins are key to facilitating the effectiveness of the antibiotics. The length of antibiotic therapy depends upon the depth of the wound infection, notes Dr. Cutrona. When there is extension to the bone, he says one will need to proceed with six to eight weeks of IV antibiotics. Q: In the workup of possible pedal osteomyelitis, what imaging modalities do you prefer to use and why? A: Drs. Brill and Karlock prefer magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) when they suspect osteomyelitis. Unless plain radiographs unequivocally demonstrate osteomyelitis, Dr. Brill says he prefers MRI because it is noninvasive and "has a fairly reliable sensitivity and specificity." However, he warns there is a 10 to 20 percent false positive finding with MRIs, which he says is most likely due to neuropathic changes in bone. For the majority of pedal osteomyelitis, Dr. Karlock says he "usually relies" on standard radiographs as well as probe to bone tests. Dr. Cutrona agrees, noting that changes in serial plain X-rays should enable one to make the diagnosis. Dr. Karlock says he occasionally uses the Tc99 bone scan to rule out osteomyelitis. If he is dealing with a deep wound and wants to determine whether it is a soft tissue infection or osteomyelitis, Dr. Karlock says he will order the Tc99 to confirm there is no bony infection in the foot. He emphasizes this is not commonplace in his practice. Bone scans and the white blood cell tag in the scans seem to be unreliable in assessing patients with diabetes, according to Dr. Cutrona, who cites false positive and negatives in the range of 60 percent. He says these tests are "very expensive," and for about the the same cost, one can obtain good anatomical resolution either by CT scan or MRI. Dr. Karlock agrees, noting that he usually does not order multiple tests and/or scans in this clinical setting.


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Man i feel bad for all the hype beast, poor thing are gonna waste all thier money thinking they are fresh
Kanye isnt a karl L. Or raf simons but he has broke ground in the fasion world with some of his creations. Nike yeezy changed the way sneakers would be seen forever even the louis vutton dons had created a landscape where high fasion and street wear meet. When your name has worth to it, you tend to use that to your advantage. Ever brand in the world does it, why do you think to brands made of the same material that take the same amount of labor and made by the same methods cost two different prices. I dont like the design thus far but i dont think knye was intending on appealing to the sneaker community with this one. We just gotta wait and see what happens besides it isnt like any one has a gun to our head We dont have to buy em
This isn't what i expected......
These are hideous
Looks like a kd5 2k4 hybrid
All of these joints have dropped in the past 4 years. All of them
Looks a little plain. Need more pics
I would buy the denim pair only because i know i cany afford a jbf custom. Just honest
Need em
That mowabb color way is so crazy they should retro it
Looks like some type of weird UGG ,Visvim, MMM sneaker boot crossbreed. Not sure how I feel about it yet so far not better than the classic
No wonder he his brand is such an empire. Shit he just breaking even from playing basketball
Funny how the mocha 3s are on the list but when they released no one wanted them
I hope jordan brand takes a note from its consumers on this product. Nobody wants to pay 400 retail for a pair of jordans
No not at all just that the quality of leather ( based what has been seen on the shoe) cant even begin to compare with the level of leathers found in italy or france. Just as u can be sure that china makes the highest quality of silk.
Damn looks like they went all out this year. Even a better photographer
Nobody asked to be reminded about this fuckery
Im going to be waiting for these
I wouldnt pay more than 200 for these. Juat not worth my money
No. Just no.
Mad dope concept but looks like it takes a bit of adjustment to get what is really going on with the shoe plus i dont think it is something I will wear
Honestly the shoes dont look too bad. I honestly dony think woven leather is as cunning edge as JB may think. Aside from the quality of leather which isnt that impressive, the shoe is just another rendition of the air jordan 1. What really qualifies this shoe to priced amongst the likes of balenciaga and mason margeila's?
Seems as if your paying for the jumpman more than the shoe itself. I personally feel I should get my moneys worth out of anything that I buy. Meaning that I dont care how limited, new, or exclusive a shoe is if it doesnt hold up, have quality materials, and be functional why would I spend my hard earned money?
At ling last I have mine. Now the journey begins for the 1
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Sorry not for me. Just cant seem yo recapture the magic of the south beach 8
The technology was there but lets a all be honest this was far from LeBron's best model
I thought afro kix had the best af1 collection. But this guy.... crazy. I didnt even know 90% of these shoes existed
The technology used on the kobe 9 is old to shoes but has just been introduced to the cpurt. The lebron xi has comfort and is light with a flashy design but all these things can be said about the kobe ix as well. In my opinion kobe owns this year by troping not one or 2 but three versions of his shoe using 2 different materials (mesh and flynit) making his shoes more versatile in contrast to all of LeBron's shoes were u have a mid or low top of the same design. There is no arguing thag lebron has run yhe shoe game up until now or kobe shoes have been a bit less desirable in contrast. Its also true that kd has been in last place far as design and technology goes for what ever reason, but its all progression. I expect great things from in the next few years. How ever to compare his nike career with that of kobes in his days with adidas is a little unfair considering we are talking about two different generations of hoop shoes. The shoes that have been around for the last decade make jordans obsolete even though its was some of best footwear you could have in the 90s
This is all true. Yet it brings into question where exactly kds mind is. As we all can see this shoe isnt very different from the kd iv aside from the fly wire and mesh up aling side the semi lunar mid sole. The shoe shouldnt be based on what kobe and lebron are doing but rather innovative thinking for basketball players of all types. The only person that has truley taken a note from this book is kobe seeing as his current modle has the best technology to date aslso seeing as lebron didny really like the look of his shoe towards the beginning of its release. In short u pay for what u get and kd needs to focus on the sport and individuality
Return of the strap
I smell a yeezy custom
I like the nightshade joints better
My question is if there are only 2000 pairs, does that include the 500 pairs that people already have?
People so easily forget that there are no premium materials being used here. It's the same jordan that is sold for 150. But jordan brand says "hey let's put it in a pack, make a special box for it and put some nice little graphics on it, AND LET'S SELL IT FOR 100$ PER PAIR. This is stupid my 250 can be spent on better shoes than this. It's sad these were prolly gonna be the best jordan drop this year
I agree that thinking outside of the box shit isn't what jordan brand is good at. Especially the company that drops and re drops the same shoe 2 and 3 times per decade
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I really don't want those lil penny but I was looking forward to the shooting stars
actually not bad, i would like to have a pair of these though they wouldnt be my first draft pick i would still cop. its a nice twist on a classic without going too overboard. i think this will be a classic shoe, though i do hope that this isnt the foamposites gimmick for the year as graphics seem to all of the hype last year, im hoping that piggy backing other already existing colorways that are popular is going to be the way that the rest of the year goes for this shoe because there is so much more that can be done with it.
i love these kobe really outdid himself this year with his line. the hi is amazing but alot of people didnt see it as being too functional off of the court. and now then enter the low, you can rock this with pants, shorts, joggers. just about what ever your style this shoe can be put into motion with it. i wish i could have got my hands on a pair but we as sneakerheads know how that is,,,,,
but did any see the resale prices on these on ebay, its fucking astronomical. its like the yeezy days all over again with these.
i plan on coping all versions of the kobe 9 before the year is out
these are kinda cool they got that whole US flag type of look going on. i think if im able to get my hands on a pair of these they would go great with am outfit for the fourth of july
these are crazy i believe that this years belongs to kobe. it seems like him and is designers have just gone above and beyond this year with the line. it kinda makes me wonder what else could he possibly have up his sleeve for next year. it almost seems as it nothing can top what he has done so far. in short all that he hasnt put on the court this year, he has put into his shoes and i must say kobe is doing an awesome job
Yes you will be mine
Fucked me up too I think he is prolly the only person who put it on his list. Great job
Best "what the" since the kobe 7. Great job nike
South beach and china. I don't the fruity pebbles should have been beat but hey it is what it is
Thank you. It's like they are tying to think to far out side of the box the foamposite wad never design to have all of these crazy graphics there are infinite solid combinations that nike could come up with but this is just terrible. Don't think it should have made it past the sample phase
Really..... Their really gonna do this
Yeah. Don't be fooled by the fancy nick name. It's a general foamposite. I mean it's prolly gonna fall under nike PM because of the full carbon fiber upper, but yeah I'm pretty sure everyone should have it. Now far as the raffle thing goes, that I don't know I mean house of hoops here in michigan did a raffle for the Bob cat X's.


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The Mitchell TS is all wood awesomeness. But if you want carbon in the stick too, the Surreal is great. The light weightness of the western cedar, base wood laminated shaft balanced off the carbon blade is sweet. Just the right amount of flex.
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hey all,
Shopping for another truck after not having one for a couple years. Been doing a ton of moto dual sporting in Mendo NF, Lassen, Shasta/Trinity, Lost Coast, the Sierras etc. with my buddies but just had a baby this summer so I'm looking forward to doing some camping trips with the family in remote areas...so another truck I need. Plus I'm rehabing my house and need something I can put a car seat in (jus sold my sports car yesterday).
Anyway, point is, keep me in mind if you see any good trucks for sale in the area. I've been spending a lot of time digging through CL and the forums looking for trucks but it would be great to have some poeple looking out for me as well.
I posted a WTB in the classifieds but here is the run down:
- 2005+ DCLB 4x4
- Low mileage (under 60,000ish...the lower the better)
- Some basic mods would be a bonus
- Budget is $20,000 to $30,000
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