Lost Cities of the Mind: The Pot-Field of K’àak Chi’ and the Myth of Natural Genius

So about a day ago, the social-media news started trending that William Gadoury, a “remarkable teenager” from Canada, had discovered a lost Mayan city that has eluded a world full of experts for centuries. Stranger things have happened, and the teen’s ingenuity is obvious from …

Thought of the Day #01

Today’s thought of the day:

Music theory is that thing which tells us exactly everything about how and why Beethoven produced 9 symphonies of the sort and design he did — and exactly nothing about how to produce a 10th symphony of the same sort and design.