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Notes From A Former ‘Guitar Zero’
Gary Marcus, a professor of psychology at NYU set out to learn the guitar at age 38. He joins us this week to talk about his experience and whether it is possible to teach a barely middle-aged dog new tricks. … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, music, Radio Segments, Uncategorized
Tagged Gary Marcus, guitar, learning, music
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Reading the Doctors’ Writing
Once it seemed the physician who could write was something of a rarity. There’s Oliver Sacks, Jerome Groopman, Atul Gawande. But I’m starting to think doc-lit might soon need its own section at Barnes and Noble. A few weeks ago … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, books, Literature, Radio Segments, Uncategorized
Tagged Atul Gwande, Ethan Canin, Health, Jerome Groopman, Oliver Sacks, physician
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Dreams Of A ‘Global Jukebox’
Over his 70-year career, ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax amassed thousands of sound recordings, piles of photographs, miles of film, and hours of videotape documenting traditional music and musicians from around the world. From his New York Times obituary (he died in … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, music, Uncategorized, Visual Art
Tagged Alan Lomax, cultural anthropology, ethomusicology, music
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Fasciating Flowers
Not all mutants are of the too-much-radiation, giant-reptile-takes-over-the-world variety. Artist Amy Davis Roth, of Mad Art Lab, photographed these black-eyed Susans growing in a California backyard. The flowers are exhibiting fasciation, or abnormal growth of the meristem of the plant. … Continue reading
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Tagged fasciation, flowers, Photography, Plants
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Aurora’s Kodak Moment
Back in 1997, Science Friday listener Jeffrey D. Elam sent us these photos from Alaska. Mr. Elam said he took the photos at midnight on March 29, 1997, using Kodak Gold 400 film. (Camera settings were f-stop 2.8 at a … Continue reading
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Tagged alaska, aurora, Aurora Borealis, comet, Comet Hale-Bopp
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Sun Turns On The Northern Lights
This week, we’ll talk about solar storms with David Hathaway, a solar astronomer at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, and Doug Biesecker, a physicist at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center. They’ll tell us about recent activity on the sun, and … Continue reading
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Tagged aurora, Aurora Borealis, solar flare, Sun
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Beauty In Brains
Whenever I yank meat from a lobster or crack a crab claw, one thought always pops into my head: these look like giant spiders. It doesn’t stop me from eating them (delicious giant spiders), but it does make me think … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, books, Features, Frontpage, Uncategorized, Visual Art
Tagged arthropod, insect, Microphotography, Microscopes, natural history, Nicholas James Strausfeld, Photography
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Show Us Those Aurora Photos
This week we’ll be talking about the sun, and how what happens there can change our night sky. Intense solar storms can amp up the northern lights. After a particularly big flare this past weekend (pictured on the left) the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aurora Borealis, NASA, northern lights, solar flares, solar storms
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Winter Nature Photo Contest: And The Winners Are….
Thanks to everyone who submitted a photo to our winter nature photo contest. We’re so impressed! (View the whole album here.) Below are the winning photographs–the ones that got the most “likes” on our Facebook page. (There was a three … Continue reading
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