There is more to why we like music than just catchy beats Everybody loves music. We tend to favor certain kinds, and maybe we call the other guy’s listening pleasure “noise.” But we’re hard-wired to appreciate it. Receptors in the brain respond to different aspects, [more...]
Does Buzz Bissinger score a touchdown with you, or do you find him personally foul? The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (author of the 1988 bestseller and cautionary tale “Friday Night Lights”) has stirred up quite a firestorm with a recent Wall Street Journal article declaring “Why [more...]
By Tim Mollen Journal entry: October 1, 1976 (age 7) Once word of my broken arm reached the second-grade classroom at St. Thomas Aquinas Elementary, the goodwill machine lurched into action. I’ve only been home a few days, but today I got a nice surprise in [more...]