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Chucho Valdes can not only reach a tenth, he can reach a tenth spanning two separate pianos. And then crush them in his monster hands without breaking a sweat. True story.
Chucho Valdes - Son No.1
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November 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Objectively the best use of a trombone ever.
Sound Effecting My Mom!!📯 (FULL COMPILATION)
YouTube video by Peet Montzingo
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October 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Sure, the added crunch is a little off-putting, but I love how the traditional method involves burying the jar in the ant colony so that it provides heat for incubation.
Scientists revive old Bulgarian recipe to make yogurt with ants
Ants carry lactic and acetic acid bacteria that help coagulate milk, as well as formic acid to acidify it.
arstechnica.com
October 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
A belated RIP to Hermeto Pascoal. (Although if there was a way for you to come back and play more gigs, that would be cool, too.)
Elis Regina & Hermeto Pascoal | Asa Branca - 13th Montreux Jazz Festival (4K ULTRA HD)
YouTube video by Arquivo Elis Regina
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September 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Hell, he makes me want to learn piano so I can quit it.
he makes me want to quit piano.
YouTube video by Timothy Gondola
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September 13, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Ask me the secret to comedy...
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
July 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Aieee! Fossilized muppets!
Rock collector finds rare gemstone that looks like Cookie Monster
Mother Nature must be a fan of Sesame Street.
www.livescience.com
May 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Scientific progress goes "bonk". (Within a certain degree of precision: "And that's why pi is now 3.9!")

And now I want to find an air hockey table.
We calculated pi with colliding blocks
YouTube video by Stand-up Maths
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March 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Dr. John, mercilessly beating a piano into submission.
the fattest piano blues
YouTube video by George Collier
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March 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Teen Jeremy Denk annotates a Bartok quartet for his unimpressed parents:

“…I sat spellbound through a pianissimo prestissimo passage. What a miracle—how did they play so fast and yet not loud? I explained to my parents, again, how stupid they were, a task that was as tiresome as it was necessary.”
February 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The Multiphonic Quartett have found a suitably spare space for minimalist music.
Philip Glass - Mishima Closing | Multiphonic Saxophone Quartet (Minimal Music/Film Music)
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February 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM