This is incredible. The pentatonic scale transcends culture; we’re hard-wired to understand these notes and their relation to one another. World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.
Daily Archive: September 2, 2009
Sep 02 2009
They Might Be my favorite band ever!
They Might Be Giants, along the lines of the other Here Comes albums (e.g. Here Come the ABC’s and Here Come the 123′s), just put out a new album called Here Comes Science. It’s apparently on iTunes right now as well, though it’s supposedly an Amazon exclusive (my referrer code in the link). Their first …
Sep 02 2009
These are the stakes!
Hopefully people will realize that merely giving a little girl a chance at life isn’t enough — because that little girl, when saved from her condition through expensive treatment that could all but bankrupt her parents, is consigned to a life without insurance, because she has a “pre-existing condition”. That is, unless you do something …
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