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When neurons fire
It would be great if I could call up a neuron to fire on demand... It would be great if I could call up a neuron to fire on demand; to connect its spidery ganglia to the axon of another neuron; and so on and on, until I could place and clearly envision a memory that...
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Oops!
Don’t you just love it when a dignified, serious person makes a blunder? Com’on. Admit it. I mean as long as it’s not your surgeon who is doing some local-anesthesia work on your person. “Oops,” is the last word – possibly literally – you’ll want to hear. But...
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Orion String Quartet Outreach Event
Orion String Quartet at Bexar County Jail on April 16, 2018 On a beautiful San Antonio spring morning with crisp temperatures, Kenneth Bloom and I set out with the Orion String Quartet on a trip to the Bexar County Jail. The jail has a population capacity of 6,000...
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…And Beethoven smiled
You’ve seen the drawings of Beethoven: unsmiling, looking somewhat suspicious of the world, hair that looks as though it has endured many years of mismanagement and finger-combing. He doesn’t really look like a happy man. His visage is just short of a scowl. This...
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Orion String Quartet
Since its inception, the Orion Quartet has been consistently praised for the extraordinary musical integrity it brings to performances, offering diverse programs that juxtapose classic works of the standard quartet literature with masterworks by twentieth and...
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