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Oldest Instrument

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SEPTEMBER 23, 1999 — Archaeologists in China have found what is believed to be the oldest still-playable musical instrument: a 19,000-year-old flute carved from the wing bone of a crane. When scientists from the United States and China blew gently through the mottled brown instrument’s mouthpiece and fingered its holes, it fell apart irreparably. (Pictured below, 2nd from bottom)


“Yeah. That wasn’t a strong move on my part,” said Garman Harbottle, a nuclear scientist who specializes in radiocarbon dating at Brookhaven National Laboratory on New York’s Long Island. Harbottle and three Chinese archaeologists published their findings in today’s issue of the journal Nature.

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Work at a Cafe

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A party.


Man 1. What do you do? 
Man 2. I work at a café.
Man 1. But what do you really do? 
Man 2. What do you mean?
Man 1. I mean, what is your thing? Are you an actor? 
Man 2. No. I just work at a café.
Man 1. You mean— that’s all you do?
Man 2. Yes. 
Man 1. And that’s all you want to do?
Man 2. Yes. 
Man 1. Huh. [whispering to himself] Just work at a café… I see… Interesting… Just

work at a cafe. [pause] Hey everyone! Come here! You have to meet this guy. He

works at a cafe— and that’s all he wants to do.
Man 3. What do you mean?
Man 1. He says he’s happy “just working at a cafe.” 
Man 3. Just working at a cafe? What else does he do? 
Man 1. No, you see, that’s the thing. I asked him that already. He’s says he’s happy “just

working at a cafe.”
Woman 1. What are you guys talking about?
Man 3. This guy here, he says he works at a cafe— and that’s all he wants to do. 
Woman 1. Philip, really.
Man 3. No. I’m serious.
Woman 1. Philip. 
Man 3. No, really. Ask him yourself.
Woman 1. [To Man 2] Is that right? Is that all you want to do— just work at a cafe?

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