Today's Diane Rehm show (Aug. 3, 2006) has been marvelous in both hours. The first was talking to Michael Bronner about the NORAD tapes from Sept. 11, 2001, and I was ready to write a note to the program congratulating them on a powerful hour. And then hour two started, and it is just as marvelous.

11:00Daniel Levitin: "This Is Your Brain On Music" (Dutton)
Guest host: Susan Page

Music is part of every known human society, and scientists want to know why. A musician and neuroscientist describes new research on the brain and why he believes music might be at the heart of human nature itself.
Guests
Daniel Levitin, head of the Laboratory for Musical Perception, Cognition, and Expertise at McGill University, where he holds the Bell Chair in the psychology of electronic communication.

The research he describes is fascinating, and I'm sure of particular interest to Mudcatters. They'll have links up to these programs in the archives in a couple of hours.



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