Tanzi is a rock star.
Boston Globe profiles the geneticist and Alzheimer’s expert who played organ on Aerosmith’s last album: It was 2009 when Dr. Rudy Tanzi was asked to […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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: In his new book, The World in Six Songs, cognitive psychologist […]
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 […]