Experts believe we will reach a new kind of normality. Or is it “normalcy”? One thing is sure: normalness, and the terminology to describe it, may never be the same. Here is a glossary to help sort things out in the days ahead:

Normal

This is just regular stuff, like, yo...

Q: Am I hearing you correctly?

A: Google Ant is an effort to individually track all the ants on Earth.

Q: Aren't there a lot of ants out there?

A: Estimates range from a hundred trillion to a quadrillion or so ants. This project isn’t designed to estimate how many ther...

Suspiria director Luca Guadagnino says he plans to make a film based on the Bob Dylan album Blood on the Tracks. Movies based on classic LPs? It's a fertile new genre --  "as long as people don't expect a literal translation," Guadagnino says.  

With that advi...

(from issue #10)

Billboard in 1961 ran a news item about comedian Belle Barth's move to a new record label. The article called her "the queen of the sophisticated LPs." 

"Sophisticated" must have meant something different back then. The record industry had hijacked and demeaned t...