At about the same time (1900s) Ives asked a question that is now stuck in my head. Does anyone know the answer? ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1C...
Earworms are funny things. Often after listening to a number of pieces, such as Schumann's Waldszenen, what gets into my head is not what drew me most...
Ah, there you go, thanks. For some reason I thought the Rain King in Bellow was an interpolation from Frazer, not a literal reference. In hindsight, D...
The Russians are actually digging fortifications in Crimea - something that would have been unthinkable even a year ago. Of course, such moves aren't ...
Huh. So much for Dugin. (I think he is mixing up Frazer's The Golden Bough with Bellow's Henderson the Rain King - not that it matters in this context...
Fun fact: Drya Platonova/Dugina - Dugin's daughter who was car-bombed, allegedly by the Ukrainian intelligence - closely cooperated with the present-d...
It will probably come as no surprise that Isaac is playing fast and loose with the truth in saying that Ukraine banned opposition parties. Only one of...
It is true though that Russia (unlike Portugal) is an important source of energy and raw materials for other countries, and cutting out that dependenc...
Michael Kofman, director of Russian studies at the Center for Naval Analyses, posted a thread on the current course of the war. https://twitter.com/Ko...
By "Putinism" I meant, for lack of a better term, the regime that has formed in Russia during Putin's rule. We don't really know what's in Putin's hea...
Yeah, I think Dugin is still in the doghouse for whatever reason. He used to have his own program, appeared on panel discussions and such. Not any mor...
I meant that Putin's regime doesn't have a founding ideology - the kind of ideology that animates the masses, at least in its early years. Such was th...
Dugin's influence is often overstated. His reputation as "Putin whisperer," "Putin's Rasputin" is largely self-created. He is a shrewd self-promoter, ...
Most of Putin's Valdai speech was devoted to airing his grievances against the West. None of it was new. The West wants to rule the world unchecked. T...
IEA's World Energy Outlook 2022 is out. A large part of it is about the outlook for clean energy and CO2 reduction. In that context the report notes t...
The US has always maintained that there would be no American boots on the ground fighting in Ukraine, and to the best of our knowledge, that's still t...
https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1584519199933665281 Russian propaganda is lazily reusing old material in its latest campaign. "Russian propaga...
It looks like Russia is preparing information conditions for a nuclear attack in Ukraine - either with a dirty bomb (as they frame it) or a tactical n...
I also think that AI mishandled this case. On the one hand, their duty as a human rights advocate is to the people whose rights they seek to protect, ...
I don't think this is accurate. I suspect that either de Bendern or the AP reporter makes the common mistake of conflating losses and deaths. The form...
At the time the Amnesty report on Ukraine came out I was dismayed by the reactions from Ukrainian officials and others. Here is Zelensky, for example ...
Russia already moved to drive The Jewish Agency for Israel out of Russia. This is Israel's outreach organization that assists Jewish immigration. It h...
Russia isn't helping Israel fight Assad - Russia is supporting Assad. Rather, Russia has allowed Israel to conduct its operations against Iranian prox...
Have listen at Dan Tepfer's "upside-down" version then :) I listened to the All of Bach recording - it's beautiful. Now of course I have an earworm or...
I was asking because I found two recordings: one released in 2017 for the Netherlands Bach Society's All of Bach series, and another released on Erato...
Well, you can't go wrong with the Oistrakh / Knushevitsky / Oborin classic recording that I linked in my post (it is old, but very good sound quality)...
Well, the real brain is also "wired up" to the screen - just not in the same manner. But that doesn't even begin to describe the differences between t...
For us, children of the scientific revolution, such anthropomorphic inversion would seem odd: we expect simple natural systems to exhibit simpler and ...
The dishbrain was not a simulation (or even an approximation) of what the actual brain does when you learn to play pong, although the article might su...
Was there another meeting between Putin and Erdogan? Where was this reported? Putin and Erdogan met on Thursday. Putin floated an idea of a gas distri...
Look, I could perhaps discuss with you what helping or abandoning the Ukrainians could mean for them, but I don't see the point. Your response to me h...
My guess is as good as anyone's. I don't think the war will formally end any time soon, if ever, in the sense of signing a formal peace treaty or even...
Putin at a summit in Astana: "2.5 million people live in Crimea. They cut off the water just like that - so the troops had to go in and open the water...
So how do you imagine this? Ukrainians constantly cajole, shame and bully their allies into sending them more and better weapons faster, but they don'...
I don't think that this latter transition happened as you describe it. Energy is not thought of as being an entity in its own right, as opposed to a p...
"Terrorist attack" is how Russian officials and media frame it, and this shrill opinion piece seems to hew closely to their talking points. The author...
Wow, Manuel. I knew you weren't the sharpest knife in the drawer, but this? This is your source of information? This is your standard of evidence? "Uk...
Check out Schubert's piano trios if you haven't. The Andate of the 2nd trio (and it miraculous recapitulation in the finale) haunted me for the longes...
Tell that to all those Russian soldiers who found out that they were invading Ukraine only when they started seeing Ukrainian road signs from their AP...
Timothy Snyder published an essay How does the Russo-Ukrainian War end? He argues that Putin is very unlikely to make true on his vague nuclear threat...
One doesn't even have to be an insurgent to end up in one of FSB's or DNR/LNR many torture basements. Ever since the Russian 2014 coup the grim expres...
I don't remember TBH, but I did try a few works of Cage that came recommended (and I don't mean stunts like 4'33''), but nothing left an impression. S...
I think Isaac took a page from Russian propaganda here. It's not a war crime if there is no war, and it's not a war if you don't agree to call it a wa...
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