According to psychologist Meagan Curtis, the inherent sadness of the minor third is what we hear in music.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis talks about "On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind."
Lada Adamic is one of a host of data scientists working at facebook. Anne Strainchamps wanted to know what all those sociologists are up to.
Check out Facebook's social science website.
Philippe Petit is the author of “To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk between the Twin Towers.”
Singer/songwriter Lisa Germano played violin for rock artist John Mellencamp. Her own album, “Geek the Girl” contains a song, “The Psychopath,” based on her experiences with an obsessed fan.
Richard Marcinko is CEO of a private security firm which trains mercenaries and he candidly tells Steve Paulson about waging war and interrogating prisoners from a mercenary's point of view.
John Emsley talks about the Periodic Table of the Elements, and why science, and the teaching of science, should be fun.
Leonard Zwilling tells Jim Fleming about boxing’s impact on the English language. It’s yielded such words and phrases as fan, throw in the towel, and up to scratch.
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