"Live like the Sparrow": Vachel Lindsay's Whitman

Charles Otis Whitman (1842-1910)

Charles Otis Whitman [5] was an extremely curious and driven researcher who was not content to limit himself to one field of expertise. Among the fields of study to which he made significant contributions were: embryology [6]; morphology [7], or the form of living organisms and the relationships between their structures; natural history [8]; and behavior. Whitman served as director of several p...

Not the Nice Sparrow

—We began our studies of House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) biparental care in the mid-1990s by applying the classic Margaret Morse Nice field technique of color-banding individuals. Over the ensuing summers, we slowly accumulated quantitative provisioning records for 100 broods, even as we commenced a series of experimental manipulations. Provisioning data showed parental fitness, as expressed ...

Sparrow 2011

SPARROW is a stochastic local search (SLS) solver for SAT formulae in CNF format [2]. It was named after the mascot of the German city of Ulm. SPARROW2011 is a variant of SPARROW that was developed for the 2011 SAT competition. The core SPARROW2011 algorithm is identical to SPARROW; it has been re-implemented in UBCSAT [9] and a mechanism has been added to automatically select optimized paramet...

Walt Whitman: Nineteenth-century Popular Culture

Angry Sparrow

Instrumentalists rely on physical gestures such as plunking, bowing, hitting, and blowing air into their instruments in order to produce sound; among tremendous number of human gestures, the body movements employed by musical performers are limited. This compositional project began with the idea of extending the relationship between human gestures and sound by electronic means. From that germin...