HOT SITES

Arts and culture

This elaborate Flash site gives an idea of how dancers develop their parts within the Martha Graham Dance Company.

www.artsedge.kennedy- center.org/marthagraham

Community

Rosie O’Donnell, blogging — and in an interestingly free-form-verse fashion. Idiosyncratic, highly personal and fascinating.

http://onceadored.blogspot.com

It was fun to do in junior high and it’s fun now: Play “Stairway to Heaven” backward and listen for “secret” messages. Do it with the “Pokemon Rap” and “Another One Bites the Dust,” too.

http://www3.telus.net/jefmil/ stairwaybackwards.htm

Health

March is National Kidney Month. This excellent site will help you understand how to be decent to the hard-working filters in your back.

www.nkdep.nih.gov/kidneymonth

Science and nature

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