Eponym of the week: Augustus D. Juilliard. The son of French-born immigrants, he was born at sea in 1836 while his parents were en route to the United States. He became wealthy in the textile-distribution business, and was a patron of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and an early president of the Metropolitan Opera. In 1924, the trustees of his estate established the music school named for him.

Weird Wide Web: Is it really that uninteresting to watch grass grow? Here's your chance to decide for yourself. Visit www.watching-grass-grow.com, and you can view a live webcam feed of a grassy area that's updated every three seconds. Or, for a little extra excitement, you can watch a minute-long movie featuring a full year's worth of it.

The Hungry Jack brand name can be found in most American supermarkets on boxes of pancake mix and mashed potato mix. The next time you're in Melbourne, look for the very similarly named Hungry Jack's, which is the Aussie name for what familiar U.S. food brand?
A) Spam
B) Burger King
C) Manwich
D) Chunky Soup

Previous answer: Male crickets chirp by rubbing their forewings together.

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