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Alice Munro Is Legal Tender, and Other News
By
Dan Piepenbring
March 26, 2014
On the Shelf
Photo: Royal Canadian Mint
Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize last year, which is neat and all, but what’s even cooler is that
her face is going to appear on a five-dollar Canadian coin
—an honor second only to having a New Jersey Turnpike rest area named after you.
The world’s
most expensive musical instrument
: “a Stradivari viola, whose asking price will start at $45 million when it is offered for sale this spring.”
If one loses the ability to speak,
a prosthetic voice
offers the chance to restore one’s vocal identity.
What was on French television in the sixties?
Michel Foucault and Alain Badiou discussing philosophy
. Obviously.
If you’ve got two left feet, scientists have done you a solid: they now know
exactly which dance moves catch a lady’s eye
. The Electric Slide is not among them, experts say.
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