How do composers and performers play with our expectations to keep the brain interested in music?
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Erica Rowell has worked in the movie industry and as a journalist. She's the author of "The Brothers Grim: The Films of Ethan and Joel Coen."
Poet Edward Hirsch bookmarks Alice Oswald's "Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad."
Physicist Clifford Pickover talks with Steve Paulson about Magic Squares and why people get hooked on them.
David Cantwell and Bill Friskics-Warren are the co-authors of “Heartaches by the number: Country Music’s 500 Greatest Singles.”
Gabor Maté is a physician at OnSite, a Vancouver detox facility and the only supervised injection site in North America.
David Kusek tells Jim Fleming how the digital music revolution is changing the way people consume music and what the record industry will have to do to survive.
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