April 1st, 2022 | by msalt
Franks's pretty smart, though he's not big on schooling and doesn't even read that much. But he asks good questions, and somehow after you talk to him for a while you know more than when you started
December 26th, 2020 | by msalt
The great (but troubled, junkie) jazz pianist Bill Evans and his combo — Eddie Gomez and Martin Morrel — played [&hellip
December 9th, 2020 | by msalt
I was listening to a band, live on some upstate New York radio station, and couldn’t shake the idea that [&hellip
September 10th, 2019 | by msalt
As a favor to our friends over at The Palindromist Magazine, here are the results of the SymmyS Awards for [&hellip
January 19th, 2018 | by msalt
The Netflix series “The Crown” offers a very interesting bit of applied Daoism, spread across three episodes in Season 1. [&hellip
July 9th, 2016 | by msalt
A post last year looked at the ways in which even the best scientists — Albert Einstein, for example — [&hellip
April 20th, 2016 | by msalt
I just ran across a classic post at Maria Popova’s always worthwhile BrainPickings that illuminates the connection between martial arts [&hellip
October 23rd, 2015 | by msalt
Einstein was wrong. As insightful as he was about the nature of the universe, the most famous Western genius since [&hellip
January 9th, 2015 | by msalt
The Daodejing (Tao Te Ching) declares the falseness of names and labels right in its first lines. 道 可 道 [&hellip
April 21st, 2014 | by msalt
I’ve long had a pet theory that Malcolm Gladwell is a closet Daoist. If you look at his big books, [&hellip