French photographer Thierry Bouët captures the freakishness of newborn babies in his latest series. The photos were taken within the first few hours after the babies come out of the womb. I love this guy.

The new U.S. Financial Markets: First Quarter 2009 (PDF) gets a new cover as well.

The redesign of Tourism & Hospitality Management goes live.

Yes, little Beyonce gets her “Single Ladies” groove on too.

Here are the top 10 moments you’ll likely to remember about Bush.

Microsoft Research introduces Songsmith, a program that would create the arrangement for your singing. All you have to do is sing your heart out into the microphone and let Songsmith worries about the music production. The demo video looks pretty cool.

New Yorker has a great piece from Jill Lepore on breast-feeding. The history of breast-pumping is also very informative. Read it if you’re about to become a parent like me. Here is an excerpt:

In 1997, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a policy statement on “Breastfeeding and the Use of Human Milk,” declaring human milk to be “species-specific” and recommending it as the exclusive food for the first six months of a baby’s life, to be followed by a mixed diet of solid foods and human milk until at least the end of the first year. In that statement, and in a subsequent revision, the A.A.P. cited research linking breast-feeding to the reduced incidence and severity of, among other things, bacterial meningitis, diarrhea, respiratory-tract infection, ear infection, urinary-tract infection, sudden-infant-death syndrome, diabetes mellitus, lymphoma, leukemia, Hodgkin’s disease, obesity, and asthma. The benefits of breast-feeding are unrivalled; breast-feeding rates in the United States are low; the combination makes for a public-health dilemma.

A technique of overtones “invented by Bernard Dubreuil in 1987 and developed by Tran Quang Hai in the field of music therapy to solve married couples’ psychological problems.” Watch the demonstration of Harmonic Kiss performed by Bach Yen and Tran Quang Hai. I want to try the technique with Dana, but she thinks I have a psychological problem for even proposing it.

“Being poor means there’s potential for becoming rich.” From True to Love, a Korean TV series I am addicting to.

A gorgeous jazz tune from Jazzy Da Lam gets dressed in string orchestration. Ngoc Anh’s slightly raucous timbre sounds intoxicating on the low register. On the climax, however, her voice gets too operatic.