Stained glass and weekend reading links

Above: a beautiful stained glass window in Freeport, Maine.

Below: Reading links! Topics include an informative piece on home heating, some cultural items, and five things you should make time for in your life.

• Debunking fireplace heating myths
• A Tolkien professor’s new media approach to the Middle Earth
• Five things you should make time for this year
• Getting to know Fritz Leiber
• [ VIDEO ] How Thriller should be played
• [ VIDEO ] Bobby McFerrin hacks your brain with a pentatonic scale