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Kevin Ng
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I write about science, music, and culture.
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signora dubbiofuoco 🤌🤌
November 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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It's been three (!) years since I last posted something on my blog, but you still gotta love cells, as they say... so here's a little piece discussing philosopher Talbot Brewer's talk/essay "What Good Are the Humanities?"
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#philsky 💙📚
What Good Are the Humanities?
This is the title of a recorded talk (2017) and essay by Talbot Brewer, professor of philosophy at the University of Virginia. He proceeds to answer this question by first elucidating what the huma…
lovecells.wordpress.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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UK charity records original music by people living with dementia
UK charity records original music by people living with dementia
Project aims to unlock memories and sensations for participants while creating nine-track CD, recorded at Glyndebourne
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."

They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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If Isaac Chotiner ever said this to me, I would move to the woods.
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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the further you get into the epstein emails, the more it feels like global elites were actually kicked in the head by a mule
November 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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It's eight years since the untimely death of baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Here's an early (1990) recital where he is in simply glorious voice: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-15...
Подарок меломану. Дмитрий Хворостовский (1990)
YouTube video by Советское телевидение. ГОСТЕЛЕРАДИОФОНД
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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The music I’ve been listening to this week, from Adès to FKA twigs
New music of the week - Nov 21 — Kevin Ng
Orville Peck tries on some new voices, FKA twigs leaves the club, and Jean Rondeau gets me to actually care about Couperin
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November 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer.

Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
November 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The music I’ve been listening to this week, from Adès to FKA twigs
New music of the week - Nov 21 — Kevin Ng
Orville Peck tries on some new voices, FKA twigs leaves the club, and Jean Rondeau gets me to actually care about Couperin
www.kevinwng.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy

A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation

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Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy
The project, which will include some 50,000 songs from private record collections, is a collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the Dust-to-Digital Foundation.
laist.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:07 AM
this is correct
while we are discussing the relative merits of pasta shapes: make carbonara with bucatini and you will never go back. 100% upgrade, no trade-offs, dish-elevating and arguably life-changing, depending on how much you enjoy carbonara
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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We'll have a lot more to say about this one tomorrow, but I'm so proud of this update and our tireless all-volunteer timeline-building and sensemaking crews.
This week, we updated our pages on data security and surveillance, immigration, the federal workforce, and medical research funding. Our brisk, rigorously cited weekly briefing is live at Unbreaking:

unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
Unbreaking.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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This week, we updated our pages on data security and surveillance, immigration, the federal workforce, and medical research funding. Our brisk, rigorously cited weekly briefing is live at Unbreaking:

unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
Unbreaking.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Tbh this feels absolutely like something Charlotte Church would do
Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
November 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Court cases! NIH hiring! University settlements!
Read our latest update on the state of medical research funding at @unbreaking.org
Medical Research Funding: Explainer — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
unbreaking.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
i'll never shut up about barbara hannigan in warlikowski's lulu
I'm still thinking about Krzysztof Warlikowski's Lulu - Parterre Box
Barbara Hannigan's Lulu is the greatest live performance I've seen.
parterre.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
caaaaasta diva
Insanity
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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When it comes to my fight On Here, @publichealthguy1.bsky.social and I said everything I have to say months ago: decisions like this incite violence. RFK Jr. and his acolytes have and will continue to do so, because that is their aim: inciting violence.

www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...
The CDC shooting was public health’s Jan. 6
“In RFK Jr.’s America, it will never be safe to practice public health or medicine," write an epidemiologist and a former CDC staffer.
www.statnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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“Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.

“His co-teachers will complete the remaining three class sessions of the courses he has been teaching”
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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‘Some victims are thought to lie under the concrete pilings of the dams and motorways that changed the Spanish landscape from the late 1950s onwards.’

Stephen Phelan on the ‘disappeared’ of Spain’s civil war.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Stephen Phelan · Diary: Spain’s Disappeared
Emilio Silva set up the Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica to improve and formalise the process...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM