Tanzi is a rock star.
Boston Globe profiles the geneticist and Alzheimer’s expert who played organ on Aerosmith’s last album:
… Read the rest “Tanzi is a rock star.”It was 2009 when Dr. Rudy Tanzi was asked to appear in a GQ magazine
Music
A salute: Trying and trying and trying by Gethan Dick.
Over the transom this morning, I just got word of an amazing science-music-art project that combined six University College London biomedical researchers with six bands to make a pretty… Read the rest “A salute: Trying and trying and trying by Gethan Dick.”
Giant Squid, we salute you!
Giant Squid is a doom metal/sludge rock band (with a cello) that writes songs about humpback whale tongues and the violent mating habits of sharks.
Plus, their songs have marine species’… Read the rest “Giant Squid, we salute you!”
Musicians have ambidextrous brains.
A new Vanderbilt University study demonstrates why learning an instrument and, like, rocking out can make your brain better – because musicians use both sides of their brains:
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You can have any music you like, as long as it’s one of these six forms.
Because, New Scientist tells us, there are only six forms of music to have:
… Read the rest “You can have any music you like, as long as it’s one of these six forms.”In his new book, The World in Six Songs, cognitive psychologist and former record producer Daniel Levitin argues
The iPhone girl.
This isn’t research as much as social observation, but have you heard about the iPhone girl? I noticed her story on reddit but she’s popping up all over the place:
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