Wes Phillips

Douglas Hofstadter reconsiders some of his notions about music and artifical intelligence.

Two scientists from McGill University—Daniel Levitin, a cognitive neuroscientist, and Stephen McAdams, a cognitive psychologist—and a professor from the College of New Jersey joined forces with the conductor and five members from the Boston Symphony Orchestra, not to mention 50 audience members, this past weekend to attempt to measure how people process music.

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Vinyl junkies rescue music from obscurity.

Behind the scenes at Muzak.

Bagheera edition. Thanks for playing.

Prevailing wisdom held that either the Sun was just like the planets in terms of oxygen composition or that it was rich in the isotope oxygen-16. Now research on Lunar dust indicates <I>both</I> theories are wrong.