of a piece

Bezos’ unilateral remaking of the Post’s opinion section this week—the section’s editor, David Shipley, resigned upon receiving the mandate, and he really had no other choice—is of a piece with all these other moves.

While the colors of a piece of clothing might be a trivial thing to disagree about, we can all learn a thing or two from the dress about how to navigate high-stakes disagreements.

But in the piriform cortex, a brain region associated with olfaction, they also found a neuron that increases firing in response to both the smell of licorice and the images of a piece of licorice candy and the written word licorice — and even to the smell of anise, which is similar in flavor and often used in licorice candy.

“It’s very schizophrenic,” says Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez, who fuses together global politics, subterfuge and the freedom cries of jazz giants such as Max Roach, Eric Dolphy, Abbey Lincoln and John Coltrane as if they’re of a piece.

A 1 ½–inch needle would be inserted perpendicularly into his back, carefully navigating between his small vertebrae, and then delicately plunged into the spinal cord—with a diameter the size of a piece of bucatini pasta—without going even a millimeter too far.