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The Pipes
Lucky me! I’m just back from a trip to Scotland, Ireland, Wales, the Hebrides and France. The music that remains swirling about my poor, jet-lagged brain is the evocative, mysterious and moving music of the bagpipes. I know you’ve heard the joyful music of “River...
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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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