Science Show - 2008-07-05

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RN's science flagship: your essential source of what's making news in the complex world of scientific research, scandal and discovery. The Science Show with Robyn Williams is one of the longest running programs on Australian radio.

Fri Jul 04 10:00:00 EDT 2008

Music and the brain It has become known as the universal language, but why is it that music—from Chopin to heavy metal—beguiles us so much? Brain scientist Oliver Sacks explores the origins of our love of music through cases he's written about in his latest book Musicophilia. And we hear from brain biologist Alan Harvey, who has also written about what connects our passion for music with our biology.