Robert Merrill Dies

I am busy with a new arrival, a daughter born yesterday, so I'm sending you to the blogroll to the right. (Apparently, it's a time of miracles in other places, too.) Also, you can read the tributes to opera singer Robert Merrill. As one comes in, another goes out.

• New York Times
  
• Washington Post (Tim Page)
  
• NPR (audio feed)
  
• BBC News
  
• The Guardian
  
• The Telegraph

Also, again, this story is absolutely amazing, the discovery in Indonesia of skeletons of a small pre-Homo sapiens cousin of our species.