Sungha Jung, Incredible Child Guitar Prodigy

An incredible child guitar prodigy. I just found out about these videos this morning. I think they speak for themselves. Sungha Jung is talented. He’s only 13 years old and has only been playing guitar for 3 years according to his official website. Enjoy.

High-Altitude Jumpers: Kittinger and Truglia

Joseph Kittinger, a decorated officer in the United States Air Force who died in 1978, was most famous for his historic high-altitude jumps. On August 16, 1960, Kittinger made his final jump (dubbed Excelsior III, his third jump in Project Excelsior), stepping out of an open gondola at 102,800 feet (31,300 meters) above the earth. [...]

Poem: Man in a Well

A couple of weeks back, I was listening to This American Life (as I often do) on the train ride home from work. The episode was entitled “The Cruelty of Children,” and I happened to be listening to Act Two, in which Ira Sher was narrating from his short fiction story “The Man in the [...]