Undead Astronauts

Not sure what’s up today, but there’s just so much stuff to post.

1. The results of new sleep studies show that Asians get the least sleep and feel the most sleepy during the day. I am absolutely part of that crowd as I get a food coma everyday after lunch almost without fail. Previous sleep studies were mentioned here before.
2. Chinese style meditation can lead to positive brain changes.
3. Darwintunes has crowdsourced music. You can see various snapshot iterations between the starting tune and the most recent ones.
4. The Economist profiles the evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa. He is a prominent IQ researcher and has made waves for some of his statements regarding IQ. His take on IQ is that it causes people with an above average amount to be good at things that are evolutionarily novel like living in cities, but no better or worse at things like human interaction and procreation.

Haven’t kept up with Kpop much, but this Korean American girl’s voice is amazing. Yes, I said voice.

She sang this cover of Beyoncé’s Halo while still an amateur last fall. Heaven is her debut single.

Maybe it’s because I am a huge Clara C fan, but this video is awesome. Like a freddiew video with fewer guns and more singing.

I haven’t paid much attention to the music scene outside of a few Youtube vids for years, so it’s a bit strange that I discover a genre of electronica when I’m so far from normal society. But a guy showed me this video and told me it was dubstep. It’s got the broken beat pattern of breaks (but in a 2-step) and also heavily remixed sound of dub and electro which end up sounding rather dark/dystopian, maybe even evil. I think I’ve found my new favorite genre. Currently listening to Nero’s Welcome to Reality which dropped earlier this week and I’m loving it.

I found the dancing in this video to be mesmerizing. Don’t know if it has to do with a combination of lack of Asian girls and clubs around here or not. Bubble, bubble, pop, pop!

(Thanks to Kineda)

This is a few days old, but I just now had time to watch it. There’s been some comment on how Asian American artists are supporting each other by consuming each other’s media, and there’s nothing I’ve seen that exemplifies this phenomenon better than this video.

I may be totally off, but looks like a seizure. I welcome any others to educate me on how I am wrong. Apparently the husband of this Asian singer is a German composer, and this “song” won some award.  Maybe I am just getting old, and my taste does not mesh with the new age. I am currently not able to put the Chinese characters in, but roughly sounds like “Tan Te” phonetically. (more…)