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Nature’s Jukebox

Posted on March 28, 2014 by Jonathan Beckman

When musician Bernie Krause was a little boy in Detroit he suffered from astigmatism, so that much of his early sensory stimulation was aural. By the age of five he was studying the violin and composition, then he took up the guitar. But in 1955 the examiners at his music school informed him that the […]

Shake Your Tail Feathers

Posted on March 28, 2014 by Jonathan Beckman

The first ever birds of paradise seen in Europe – or at least their dried skins – arrived in a small port north of Cadiz on 6 September 1522. They were carried by the Victoria, the last surviving ship from the fleet of five led by the great Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan – and the […]

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