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Evan Shinners demonstrates how to play Bach's double manual keyboard music.

NYTimes: "Van Cliburn, the American pianist whose first-place award at the 1958 Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow made him an overnight sensation and propelled him to a phenomenally successful and… Read the rest of the article: Pianist Van Cliburn, cold war "musical envoy," dies of cancer at 78

We've gathered fresh video for you to surf and enjoy on the Boing Boing video page. The latest finds for your viewing pleasure include: • Mikael Jorgensen (Wilco) and Helado… Read the rest of the article: Watch the latest Boing Boing-curated videos in our video archive!

Mikael Jorgensen of Wilco, with Helado Negro, aka Roberto Lange, record a song in two days.

According to Marc Ambinder and D.B. Grady's new book Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry, the secretive National Security Agency spying programs have become institutionalized, and have grown, since… Read the rest of the article: NSA's secret domestic spying program, code named "Ragtime," uncloaked in new book

On Reddit today: "Hey, it's John Cusack. I'm here talk to about Freedom of the Press Foundation, among other things. Ask me anything." More from his intro:

The world's first commercial space traveler, Dennis Tito, is today launching "Inspiration Mars," a space tourism project which involves a 501-day flight for two astronauts to do a "flyby" past… Read the rest of the article: Space tourist Dennis Tito plans mission to Mars, manned by a man and woman (sex in space!)

In response to Freedom of Information Act requests, the military today released 84 court documents related to the case of Bradley Manning. As is routine, many of the documents are… Read the rest of the article: Army releases some documents on Bradley Manning case

This video first made the rounds in 2011, but a kitten chasing apples on a bed, set to dramatic music, is timeless.

"About 2,240 cases of breast cancer are diagnosed in U.S. men a year, compared with about 232,000 cases of invasive cancer among women," writes Laura Hambleton in the Washington Post.… Read the rest of the article: Because it is rare, male breast cancer often diagnosed only at late stage

"Anger, frustration, forgiveness, revenge: communicated in 17 Beatles songs."

"My personal biracial experience growing up on both sides of segregated hoods, suburbs and backcountry taught me a lot about the coded language and arithmetic of racism," writes actor and… Read the rest of the article: Django, in chains: Jesse Williams on Tarantino

I am in Hawaii, working and exploring and writing—and, for the first time in my life, swimming in the ocean. Not just playing in the water, but I mean, really… Read the rest of the article: Ocean swimming as meditation

Piecing together what exploded in the skies over Russia, using infrasound sensors operated by the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization

We found this cat in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool. Bill Benson shot this photo, and the one below.

A man charged with helping a Zumba instructor develop an uncharacteristically profitable Zumba operation is accused of deleting emails from his computer that may have amounted to damning evidence. [Associated… Read the rest of the article: Defendant in Maine Zumba prostitution case deleted emails, say police

"We popped open our baby monitor app in time to see what really happens when Jude is 'trying to go to sleep.'"

Pilots of the US Air Force's F-22 Raptor stealth fighters are experiencing choking, coughing, memory loss, confusion, and blackouts (hypoxia) because of the way the planes are designed. At least… Read the rest of the article: Stealth fighter pilots' planes making them sick. Air Force to pilots: Get over it.

Man, I feel cheated. My chemotherapy infusions were nothing like this.