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Digital Breakups
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Digital Breakups
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Music on Your Brain
Music is more than just pitch and rhythm, timbre and tempo. Music can comfort. Or annoy. It helps us celebrate – and mourn. Music can foster a sense of group identity. (Consider national anthems.)
Are human beings hard-wired to enjoy music? What role did music play in the evolution of human societies? What would life be without music?
In this World Science Forum, we talk to Daniel Levitin, a neuroscientist at McGill University. He’s an expert on music cognition and the author of two books: This is Your Brain on Music and The World in Six Songs.
Levitin argues that music is at the heart of human nature. The World’s Rhitu Chatterjee spoke with Levitin for The World Science Podcast.
http://www.world-science.org/forum/music-brain-daniel-levitin/
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Obama’s new words, Avatar in the Amazon and a Chinese satire
As Obama enters the second year of his presidency, he’s dropped some expressions — “war on terror”, “Af-Pak”, even “Middle East”. His administration has invented a few too: “remotedly piloted aircraft” (drones) and “overseas contingency operations” (wars). Also, a special screening of Avatar in Ecuador for indigenous groups. What did these Shuar and Achuar speakers think of Avatar’s invented language, Na’vi? Finally, a new online satirical movie is all the rage in China. It features a Chinese double-entendre phrase aimed at avoiding government censorship. The movie also includes a fantastic “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” rant.
http://www.theworld.org/2010/02/05/obamas-new-words-avatar-in-the-amazon-and-a-chinese-satire/
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In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka from Chatterbox Audio Theater
A traveler to a penal colony witnesses the horrific punishment inflicted upon those who break even the smallest of laws. But when a new leader rises to power, will the merciless be treated with mercy?
- Director: Andrew Sullivan
- Length: 29:38 minutes
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Rebooting the News #40
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Comedy and Everything Else - Episode 77 with Jesse Thorn
Jesse Thorn joins us from "the Sound of Young America" and "Jordan, Jesse, Go!" to tell us just what makes a good pair of Jeans, and much much more!
This week on Comedy and Everything Else:
Special guest, Jesse Thorn! Jesse goes blue right out of the box Ira Glass takes a nice liking to Jesse Thorn Jimmy likes to say words funny Stef is not a friend of Dorothy Jesse Thorn is a big fan of Hip Hop Jesse’s new series Put This On is about fashion and it’s for real Jesse’s obsessed with being a contrarian Jesse tells the truth about Edmonton in Canada Smooth jazz moves Check out Jesse’s fun-time summer getaway MaxFunCon
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MaxFunCon Podcast Ep. 10: John Hodgman and Merlin Mann
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