The newest Minecraft snapshot, numbered 12w50a, is now available. Here are some of the highlights:

Sylvester Stallone’s son Sage has died from an apparent overdose of an unknown drug at the age of 36. He was found in his L.A. home and pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.

It was announced by People today that 19-year-old Miley Cyrus has become engaged to her boyfriend of three years, 22-year-old actor Liam Hemsworth. It is said that the couple have been engaged since Liam’s proposal on May 31, but it was not announced until today’s exclusive with People.

The ubiquitous “gurney” photo of Michael Jackson released during the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray this week is indeed disturbing. What I have yet to hear is who took this photo and why. It’s not standard protocol for doctors or staff to take photos of recently the deceased, even if they are...

It’s a sick fascination we have with the aging of our beloved sex symbols and starlets. Today we look at how Veronica Lake and Elizabeth Taylor aged over the years.

I wrote this paper in graduate school. I recall being highly motivated by the subject, reading and researching as much for my own enjoyment as for this paper. It is dated June 1992, and received an A. Chamber music had never been an integral part of French music until the end of...

This is another paper from graduate school, dated March 7, 1992. As with other papers I’ve posted here, the examples are missing due to limits of technology at that time. Igor Stravinsky often drew from Classical models in his composition.  Stravinsky himself admitted that when he was composing, he listened to works...

This paper was originally dated 12/9/1992. And since this was 1992 and I had no scanner, my examples were merely copied on a copy machine and glued onto the blank spots – so I no longer have the actual music samples for those examples. Ludwig van Beethoven contributed a wealth of innovations...