Today in 1966, the Beatles were trying to make one great take of their new song “Strawberry Fields Forever,” and with help from producer George Martin and engineer Geoff Emerick, they ended up making that one great take out of two half takes.
Physarum polycephalum is pretty smart for a slime mold. It can find its way back to the places where food had previously been even though it doesn't have a nervous system. Researchers in Germany have just figured out how this organism does it. Plus: American Beatlemania may have begun in February 1964, but George Harrison had made a nice, quiet trip to southern Illinois the previous fall.
I can't imagine what it must have been like to be Santa Claus in 1964. Apparently everyone in the world asked to have a Beatle for Christmas!
This month marks 50 years since the world learned The [...]
An appropriate song for the moment.
There's no reason one couldn't just edit the New Kids on the Block entry on Wikipedia to add a new band member in there. Hey, that's better!
Just imagine how big the Beatles might have been if Wikipedia had been around to clear up things like this!
