Ritalin is celebrated in a song by Borgeous and Maurice, with appropriate rhythms in the introduction and in the theme proper. The lyrics include: Nice children don’t talk back Nice children take Prozac (Thanks to Alice Bell for bringing this to our attention.) BONUS: Ritalin, once a carefully dispensed remedy for the few, long ago […]
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Strained moon sound on a distant night
This recording, from about the year 1860, of Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville singing “Au Clair de la Lune” is now but a ghost of whatever it sounded like as the song left the man’s mouth. Think of it, if you like, as a song attempted on a distant night about a moon that maybe have […]
White Christmas, white noise
Seasonal research brought to our attention by investigator Kristine Danowski: “Another White Christmas: fantasy proneness and reports of ‘hallucinatory experiences’ in undergraduate students,” Harald Merckelbach and Vincent van de Ven, Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, vol. 32, no. 3, September 2001, pp. 137-144. The authors, at Maastricht University, in The Netherlands, report: “44 […]