Check out this brilliant routine about football. 

There's already legislation in place in sixty countries for this, but not Canada or the US. Why not?

Enneagram Nines come into this world at one with a certain aspect of Being, and then separate from it. 

Steve Dawson is an award winning musician and producer. His totems include Ry Cooder, The Band, Daniel Lanois, Leo Kottke and Bill Frisell. 

This is obvious and known to everyone who's watched the show, isn't it?

Alzheimer's, eternal youth, and more: a theory proposed by a Beams reader.

What six bloggers think...

This could actually mean that we're climbing up the evolutionary ladder.

What the author of Neuromancer has to say about the Two Against Nature

From the Huffington Post and the National Post. 

A review of his book The Seven Spiritual Laws of Superheroes.

For life - much less human life - to have emerged on Earth, a number of unlikely factors had to be in place. 

The physiology of the need, not the psychology.

Nope. He was made of straw.

This is a first in a new series of podcasts, exploring the ignored and underestimated.

You've probably had some, if you're partial to raspberry flavour.

NPR's All Songs Considered website is a treasure trove for audiophiles.

A short photo essay of Springtime flowers and colours.

Singer/songwriter and Beams and Struts contributor Corin Raymond talks about Tom Waits, Sam Cooke, the Rolling Stones, Howlin' Wolf and The Band.

In short: collaborators, language, sex, violence, poetry, adapters, prolific, Central England, underappreciated.