End-of-week link roundup
The Science of Music: an exhibit from the Exploratorium. Covering such eternal questions as why everyone sings better in the shower, why your voice sounds freakishly weird on tape, and what makes a song become an earworm. Also, I spent an inordinate amount of time playing with the Dot Mixer. (Via the Scout Report.)
The Deliberately Concealed Garments project, an exhibit of clothing found in walls and other hiding places. There really is an archive for everything. I’m fascinated by the stories implied by these bits of clothing — the collar of a child’s sailor suit found in a wall, old boots and a candlestick in a bricked-up bread oven — and by the way we will never know for sure why they were hidden. (Via Librarians’ Index to the Internet.)
Languagehat and wood s lot celebrate Wallace Stevens’ birthday. I’ve posted about Stevens on numerous occasions before, but (sorry, Dale!) I’m about to do it again. Here’s a current favorite.
Tea
When the elephant’s-ear in the park
Shrivelled in frost,
And the leaves on the paths
Ran like rats,
Your lamp-light fell
On shining pillows,
Of sea-shades and sky-shades,
Like umbrellas in Java.
Doh! I meant to blog about Stevens’s birthday. Interesting current favorite. It seems a little weak for Stevens, certainly falling short of that other Tea poem, no? Am especially interested in the rats bit, because the leaves on the path appear much differently here than in Snow Man, or than the sand across the floor in Auroras.
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Bookninja posts a link that might interest any archivists out there (and you know who you are): the British…