Music: Tubes and transistors, once more
Question: will a high quality 2 x 80 watt mono block tube amplifier, based on 211 tubes, perform better with big difficult speakers like Dynaudio Consequence (a 5-way system), than the Krell FPB600 transistor amp? Short answer: no. I tested, borrowing a friend’s tube mono blocks, each weighing 50 kg or so, due to big […]
Music: Wizz Jones: “Right now” (1972) remastered
The German record label Speaker’s Corner has remastered and rereleased Wizz Jones 1972 LP Right now. Why is this a great event? One, because the LP is great. Two, because it sounds better than ever before. The LP has been an almost unobtainable secret classic, but it is also quite variable. Listen to its best […]
Music: Resolution eats tweaks for breakfast
Stereophile had a comment to this effect, some months ago. It means: a step up in resolution will be more important than most tweaks to your sound system. Here is a new experiment, using my Cowon D2 small mobile music player. 1 Listening to Tom Petty: Mojo on LP on my main system, sound is […]
Books, comments: Gender perspectives in health and medicine
I am one of the contributors to the Women’s health days event in Oslo 1-2 April. See http://www.forskningsradet.no/no/Arrangement/Kvinnehelsedagene_2011/1253964755410 My paper is titled Gender, violence and health – do we need a gender perspective in health and medicine? (in Norwegian, Kjønn, vold og helse – trenger vi et kjønnsperspektiv på helse og medisin?v/Øystein Gullvåg Holter, professor […]
Books, comments: Children, socialization and gender equality
The gender equality survey in Norway 2007 showed that children growing up in gender-equal homes, where the parents decided things equally, were less exposed to violence and physical punishment, compared to father- or mother-dominated homes. This is a major new finding, and I regard it as one of the most important findings of my research, […]
Sociology: “The tragedy of the commons” – or, why does biology need social research?
The tragedy of the commons Douglas J. Futuyma in Evolution (see blog post Futuyma: Evolution, March 7, 2011) writes on “the tragedy of the commons” and how this problem of individualism versus collectivism is found in nature too and how it can be escalated by selfish gene type of adaptations (p 415). The tragedy of […]
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Sociology: Gender equality theory?
Could gender equality theory be like a radar, or a compass, beyond current feminist theory and gender theory? Can it be based on a critique of conventional gender theory? Can it develop major new insights? These are problems I shall be working with, this spring, based on three months of author stipend.
Music: What is “pop”?
Arcade fire, The Suburbs, comes close. So does Arthur’s Landing, Yeasayer and others played a lot recently, including Amanda Palmer and John Grant. Pop is not about enhancing success, it is about raking the claws of life into the superficial face of the winner, the uproar under the song of success. It sings from below […]
Books: Darwin, Charles: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
On my reading list – and now – on my table. More to follow. Penguin Classics 2009, from the second edition 1890. Regarding Darwin, interpretation is clearly needed, ability to sort wheat from chaff. For example, he has a lot of racist comments in his work on sexual selection (also recieved, some of it read). […]