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Kat Wilson and Kevin Litman-Navarro built a Live Music Analysis Tool to compare the energy and valence of studio recordings to live recordings. via The Pudding

Jason Kottke was very impressed with a bootleg version of Jamie xx's score for "Tree of Codes" he recently found on Soundcloud.

via kottke.org

Nicholson Baker explores the possibility that COVID-19 originated from a lab accident in Wuhan, China. via New York Magazine

Copyrighted works from 1925 entered the public domain in the US as of January 1, 2021. This includes books such as "The Great Gatsby," "Mrs. Dalloway," and "In Our Time."