Sometimes I have to laugh at the variety of people, books, shows, and ideas that go floating by during the course of a day. Here are three that I recently grabbed.

Longmire

If unusual mysteries appeal to you, try the Netflix series Longmire, starring Robert Taylor, Katee Sackhoff, and the wonderful Lou Diamond Phillips.

How a Trumpet Is Made

Here’s an amazing 15-minute tour of the Yamaha trumpet factory in Hamamatsu, Japan, led by Jens Lindemann, trumpet soloist and formerly a member of the Canadian Brass. 

Carl Sagan Ponders the Future

In his 1995 book The Demon-Haunted World, astronomer and author Carl Sagan wrote these words:

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.”