This year gave us an idea: Why not sing the praises of a musician before she or he is dead? We picked Stevie Wonder, and declared this week Wonder Week. Leading a healthy pack of pieces about Stevie’s drumming prowess, sappy love songs, and top 10 best tunes is Jack Hamilton’s tribute to Wonder’s five-year “classic period” of the mid-’70s.
P.S. If Jack’s piece looks different to you—snazzier!—here’s why.
Too specific: Mathematician John Allen Paulos writes that the conjunction fallacy—the belief that false stories with lots of details are more likely to be true—is dangerously potent.
Beware the parallel: The death of the Russian ambassador in Turkey on Monday is nothing like the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914. Josh Keating explains why.
RIP, Harlem Deer: Susan Matthews argues that the rogue deer “Lefty,” who died in Harlem last week, is better off now. It just doesn’t make sense to allocate resources to relocate individuals of a species that is far too numerous, as it is.
For fun: First trailer for Blade Runner 2049!
Voiceover and all,
Rebecca
