Do Sparrows Like Bach?

The editors of the New Scientist magazine offer a sampling of the latest in stranger-than-fiction scientific research. Scientists who trip their subjects, academic debates over the temperature of the afterlife, and researchers who don moose suits.  Informative -- and addictive -- browsing for the intellectually curious.

May 22: The video game Pac-Man, featuring "the most iconic character from the golden age of arcade video games," was released on this day in 1980. Over the next decade, gamers spent over $2.5 billion in quarters…

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin

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