[tabi] [NOVA] "Musical Minds" and NOVA scienceNOW
- From: "Lynn Evans" <evans-lynn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:25:41 -0400
For those who enjoy music and have a brain you may be interested in this show.
NOVA NEWS
Be sure to catch Dr. Oliver Sacks's latest book, the national best-seller
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Musical Minds
Tuesday, June 30 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on PBS
Check your local listings
Can the power of music make the brain come alive? Throughout his career Dr.
Oliver Sacks, neurologist and acclaimed author, whose book Awakenings was made
into a Oscar-nominated feature film starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro,
has encountered myriad patients who are struggling to cope with debilitating
medical conditions. While their ailments vary, many have one thing in common:
an appreciation for the therapeutic effects of music. NOVA follows four
individuals-two of whom are Sacks's case studies in his latest book, the
national best-seller Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain-and even peers
into Sacks's own brain, to investigate music's strange, surprising, and still
unexplained power over the brain
Then in the second hour:
and finally, we meet Luis von Ahn, computer science and gaming expert aiming to
capitalize on the countless hours we waste at computers with CAPTCHA, a system
developed to help combat spam.
Tuesday, June 30 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on PBS
Check your local listings
In the season premiere, a blindfolded Tyson is led to a top-secret "diamond
farm" to investigate breakthroughs in the engineering of artificial diamonds;
then, Neil meets the engineers behind Auto-Tune, the pitch correction software
that turns sour notes into sweet ones-but can it turn our host into a singing
star? Next, our cameras track an ingenious technique that highlights key
mutations in a strain of anthrax to see if researchers can use genetic
"fingerprinting" to trace the source of the strain; and finally, we meet Luis
von Ahn, computer science and gaming expert aiming to capitalize on the
countless hours we waste at computers with CAPTCHA, a system developed to help
combat spam.
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