The How to Destroy Angels website (a project by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails fame) offers a free EP featuring six 320kbps tracks. The only requirement is provide an email address which will be used to send a link to the zip file which contains the tracks. You can …
Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm are two famous and influential novels by George Orwell that need no real introduction, so let me just provide you with the links of the audio (64kbps mp3s) found on the Internet Archive
Via Mr. Science (and SciencePodcasters) comes a podcast on the ever-fascinating topic of dog domestication/evolution: The Domestication of the Dog and the Australian Dingo The Australian dingo and the New Guinea Singing Dog may be the world’s oldest dog breeds. The study, Genome-wide SNP and haplotype analyses reveal a rich …
Baby corals dance their way home Baby corals find their way home in their first days as free-swimming larvae by listening to the noise of animals on the reef and actively swimming towards it, an international team of researchers working in the Caribbean has discovered. These findings raise new concerns …
Via Point of Inquiry: George Hrab – Soundtrack to Skepticism (Point of Inquiry) George Hrab is a composer, professional musician, singer, songwriter, podcaster, and skeptic. George is the Host and Producer of the Geologic Podcast, a popular weekly show about music, comedy, science, and skepticism. The drummer in the band …
Via UbuWeb Sound: Bertrand Russell – ABC of Relativity: Understanding Einstein (1925) Narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi Runtime: 3hrs, 20mins Ask a dozen people to name a genius and the odds are that ‘Einstein’ will spring to their lips. Ask them the meaning of ‘relativity’ and few of them will …
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Revised and Expanded) is another fascinating book by Oliver Sacks (earlier books by him which I have read include Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and An Anthropologist on Mars). The book covers a wide range of neurological phenomena …
Summer is getting closer and what better way to get ready than with some music from Manu Chao. Click the image above to download the album (as a rar archive) which contains twenty songs (192 kbps mp3s). More graphics and lyrics can be found at: Sibérie m’était contéee… Also see …