Relaxing with Music

Verse of the day

A reading of John Mayer, John Lennon And A Good Old-Fashioned Fistfight At 7 In The Morning. Hit the player below to give it a listen or download the mp3 right here (4.4MB)…

Mamet gave me the clean hard line punching an IBM Selectric from a small Vermont cabin Dickinson showed me stone cold brevity ignoring self-promotion and the market thirty years alone in that upstairs room Hemingway brought his shotgun to the feast keeping it simple quick and painless never missing a drink or a day Van Gogh tore his left ear and whole heart […]

A reading of Hollywood! Hollywood! Hollywood! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!. Hit the player below to listen or download the mp3 right here (8.3MB)…

We worry that IM, texting, Facebook are spoiling human intimacy, but Stefana Broadbent's research shows how communication tech is capable of cultivating deeper relationships, bringing love across barriers like distance and workplace rules.

Robert Wright uses evolutionary biology and game theory to explain why we appreciate the Golden Rule ("Do unto others..."), why we sometimes ignore it and why there’s hope that, in the near future, we might all have the compassion to follow it.