“Notes & Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus”

Isaac Fitzgerald bio ↓ · August 6th, 2009 · filed under video

Bobby McFerrin (yes, as in “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” Bobby McFerrin) demonstrates how the pentatonic scale is hard wired in all of us at the 2009 World Science Festival. (via @karllong)

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Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and been given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals by the age of 25. He has also written for AlterNet, The Bold Italic, McSweeney's, and Mother Jones. He is the managing editor of The Rumpus. Follow him on Twitter. More from this author →

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“Notes & Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus”

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