Mental Floss

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor

Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Overture to L'Amant Anonyme (September 2021)

from The Hope of Better Weather EP

piano - Michael Price

recorded July 17th, 2012 at Snap Studios, London


1. Breaking The Horizon

Tears For Esbjörn (excerpt)

"The thing that was relentless for me here was how you look… I couldn’t put up with it." - Meryl Streep

Unheard interview recorded in 2008

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Meryl Streep on Beauty

'Imaginational Anthem vol. 7' Available February 17, 2015

'Trees Return to Soil' by Simon Scott

"I have no faith at all. I only hold convictions." - Ayn Rand from her 1959 conversation with Mike Wallace.

More from the interview and the animated version of this episode from our PBS series: http://blankonblank.org/interviews/ayn-rand-love-marriage-religion-faith-business/

Ayn Rand on Selfish Love

""I‘m just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming, that’s what they pay me to do." - Bill Murray as told to T.J. English in 1988.

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Blank On Blank Bill Murray

Jonathan Sacks was Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Commonwealth for 22 years. He is now the Ingeborg and Ira Rennert Global Distinguished Professor of Judaic Thought at New York University and the Kressel and Ephrat Family University Professor of Jewish Thought at Yeshiva University. He is also Professor of Law, Ethics and the Bible at King’s College London. His books include "The Great Partnership: Science, Religion, and the Search for Meaning," "The Dignity of Difference," and his latest, "Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence." This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Jonathan Sacks — The Dignity of Difference."

Find more at onbeing.org.

[Unedited] Jonathan Sacks with Krista Tippett

"Nothing means anything"
– Kurt Vonnegut on November 8, 1970 in a class at New York University. Excerpted from the Pacifica Radio Archives

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Kurt Vonnegut on Man-Eating Lampreys

“Humor has to surprise us otherwise it isn’t funny and it’s a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist” - Garrison Keillor, as told to George Plimpton in 1994

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Garrison Keillor on Humor

Velvet Piano, Introduction

John Zorn - ahaha

Painovoimaa, valoa

Background, context, and poem text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/04/19/esperanza-spalding-william-blake-the-fly/

CONTEXT / POEM TEXT

Esperanza Spalding performs "The Fly" by William Blake

Artist: Nick Zammuto
Title: Tonight We'll Go For A Ride
Album: We The Animals: An Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Release Date: November 9, 2018 Digital / February 8, 2019 Physical

Pre-Order: www.temporaryresidence.com/products/trr308

We The Animals is the award-winning new film from Jeremiah Zagar (In A Dream). Based on the best-selling novel by Justin Torres, We The Animals is Zagar’s first narrative feature. It reunites Zagar with Nick Zammuto, the renowned composer and co-founder of beloved collage-pop pioneers, the Books. Inspired by the film’s setting in rural upstate New York – and influenced by the early ambient electronic music that galvanized the Books two decades ago – Zammuto pairs that earthen, wooded isolation with dynamic pulses of customized electronics and sparse, crystalline layers of melodic soft synths. The juxtaposition is arresting, and gives the soundtrack a unique heft befitting of its subject matter – and betraying of its minimal instrumentation. Beautifully edited and sequenced to act as both a companion to the film and a standalone album, We The Animals: An Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is as subtle as it is startling, and succeeds in making even the heaviest emotions feel momentarily weightless.

We The Animals: An Official Motion Picture Soundtrack

Nick Zammuto - Tonight We'll Go For A Ride

From Nat Bartsch Trio's 2008 self-titled release

I Think I Always Knew... - Nat Bartsch Trio

Groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning conversation about the big questions of meaning, hosted by Krista Tippett. Every Thursday a new discovery about the immensity of our lives — and frequent special features like poetry, music and Q + A with Krista.

[Unedited] Jonathan Sacks with Krista Tippett

On Being Studios

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