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"We Didn't" by Stuart Dybek from I Sailed with Magellan:

How adept we were at fumbling, how perfectly mistimed our timing, how utterly we confused energy with ecstasy.

They did it in honor of man and woman, in honor of beast, in honor of God. They did it because they'd been released, because they were home free, alive, and private, because they ( Read more... )

1. Andrew Bird - Dark Matter (5:05 ( Read more... )

I keep waiting for something to happen, but I only have two songs left.

I love flying, especially at night. The plane rises into the air, the world slowly fading into darkness as you ascend above the clouds. Then you fly straight on with only the stationary light of the wing making not even the smallest cut in the great black expanse. And as you finally come down from the clouds, the whole earth looks as if transformed ( Read more... )

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David Gross, a leading theoretical physicist who won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, will deliver the annual Buhl Lecture at Carnegie Mellon University. Gross will give his talk, "The Future of Physics," at 4:30 p.m., Thursday, April 26 at the Mellon Institute Auditorium, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Oakland. The lecture is free and open to the public, and ( Read more... )