Oliver Sacks on Earworms, Stevie Wonder and the View From Mescaline Mountain
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Famed neurologist riffs about music and how the brain experiences it. It's all here in a longer version of the interview from the October issue of Wired magazine.
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Can a word be an earworm, a tune that lodges itself in the brain and will not be moved?
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Among the letters, articles and artifacts at the Experience Music Project's new Bob Dylan exhibit is a September 1967 review in The New York Times. It begins: "It will be a good joke on us if, in 50 years or so, Dylan is regarded as a significant figure in English poetry."
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From rock-infused political documentaries, electro-funk remixes and a record-label insider's memoir, Wired's editors highlight noteworthy picks to tune into to now.
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IL COMMENTO                                          La sindrome del trasformismo                                                                                   di GIUSEPPE D'AVANZO
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Stephen Hawking, the British physicist and best-selling author famed for his work on time and space theory while confined to a wheelchair, will soon experience the reality of zero gravity.
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The stories seem strange but riveting. A heart attack victim recalls floating in the air, watching paramedics revive him. A surgical patient remembers hovering, watching the doctors operate. Such widely reported out-of-body experiences have long been the territory of theology, philosophy and scary movies. Now scientists have turned their attention to the topic.
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Paul McCartney's lyrics. Jimi Hendrix's guitar. A John Lennon interview. Memorabilia from some of the most influential musicians of the 20th century hit the auction block Monday.
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SHELBY, N.C. - A radio listener helped save a disc jockey who suffered an on-air seizure and pleaded for help before passing out in his studio.  WOHS DJ Tim Biggerstaff, who has suffered from diabetes since childhood, has always been candid about his health.
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Tycho:  I'm super depressed.  I thought I had invented a new word - mirthquake - and then I was going to say that you should prepare yourselves for the aforementioned, as today's comic strip was rated this or that number on the rictus scale.  I mean seriously, I've been excited all weekend.  A simple Google search put me in my place - the word is practically ubiquitous.  Expect it soon on Urban Dictionary, that mausoleum of once vibrant language.
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Norman Doidgeâs fascinating synopsis of the current revolution in neuroscience straddles the gap between science and self-help.
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Sir Magdi Yacoub on transplant medicine, Nobel Prize winners and Mozart.
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By Munz, Tania  LORRAINE DASTON and GREGG MITMAN (eds.), Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. vii+230. ISBN 0-2311.3038-4. Pounds 32.00, $49.50 (hardback).
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Tycho:  I've been au Canada at Hothead since Monday, making a final pass on the entire script and writing new stuff for things we managed to fit into the first ep.  After two days of this process, I feel as though my brain has been dragging a plough through a stubborn field.  Like every other part of this adventure, it's been profoundly educational.  I enjoy it, but there is a constant electrical hum in my skull that I assume is the byproduct of creating a universe in real time.
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Musings on sleep from scientists, philosophers, artists and more.
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Approximately three hours ago, I decided to do mushrooms for the first time in nearly four years. Seemed as good a time as any. It's a sunny October day in Denver. Brown leaves constantly cascade on me as I walk down the sidewalk, blissfully trying to ignore the crackheads who think I'm a walking ATM and a group of ese's who are giving me the evil eye. Church bells are ringing (ringing...ringing really loud...does that always happen around noon?...shit) crazy black dudes are singing along with their 1991-era Walkmans. Everything was peaceful, and I felt at one with the universe.  Why oh why did I decide to fuck it all up by going to vote today?
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Both Radiohead a former Talking Head have advice for young artists on navigating the chaotic music industry.