Marc Estrin
Insect Dreams Orphans
Monday, March 6, 2006
As our observational techniques become more sophisticated, we seem to be discovering more and more new planets. But Pluto was a biggie. 1930. Because of Plutonium and the bomb, I had wanted to bring...
Saturday, March 4, 2006
Every year since 1958 I’ve played, sung or conducted Handel’s Messiah. One of my pet peeves is that Messiah, originally an Easter work, featuring a lot of “pain and spitting”, death and subsequent...
Friday, March 3, 2006
Heidegger was perhaps the deepest, darkest and richest theme that was cut. I’ve been “working on” Being and Time for years, trying to understand and digest its enormity. Its publication date, and the...
Thursday, March 2, 2006
One of the truly fascinating pieces of history that got cut because it didn’t fit into the dynamic of the book is the story of the baseball player-spy, Moe Berg, and his assignment to assassinate...
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Did you know that FDR was almost assassinated? Here’s the story (it’s all true, except for the six-foot talking cockroach), dug out of our American memory hole. It’s one of the many things I...