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Dr. Daniel Levitin: "Your Brain on Music Part One"
July 3, 2026, 5:11 a.m.
The understanding of how we humans experience music and why it plays a unique role in our lives is this topic of two interviews with Dr. Daniel Levitin, author of “This Is Your Brain on Music, The Science of a Human Obsession,” recorded from his home in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in late October 2006.
Professor Levitin runs the Laboratory for Musical Perception, Cognition and Expertise at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He asserts that our brains are hardwired for music and therefore we are all more musically equipped than we think. He says that music is an obsession at the heart of human nature, perhaps even more fundamental to our species than language. Professor Levitin believes that the music we end up liking meets our expectations of what we anticipate hearing just enough of the time that we feel rewarded, and the music that we like violates those expectations just enough of the time that we’re intrigued.
In the first interview Dr. Levitin begins by describing how the human brain learns to distinguish between music and language.
The second interview begins with a discussion of what happens when people listen to music they like.
Professor Daniel Levitin’s website is www.yourbrainonmusic.com
The books Dr. Daniel J. Levitin recommends are, “Another Day in the Frontal Lobe,” by Katrina Firlik, and, “The Human Stain,” by Philip Roth.
Originally Broadcast: November 1, 2006 November 8, 2006
July 2, 2026, 11:28 p.m.
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Germany and Cuba.
What's Up Wednesday - 20120307
July 2, 2026, 11:07 p.m.
Free-form music
What's Up Wednesday - 20120215
July 2, 2026, 11:01 p.m.
Free-form music
What's Up Wednesday - 20121024 Halloween
July 2, 2026, 10:47 p.m.
Free-form music program
July 2, 2026, 8:49 p.m.
Plenty of fresh Celtic to go around this hour, from Haggis X-1, Boiled In Lead, Alexandre Vilaboa from Galicia. along with the defenders of the realm, The Real McKenzies and their new album, On Yer Bike. Saddle up! You've got yer Celt In A Twist!
World Beat Canada Radio July 4 2026
July 2, 2026, 8:45 p.m.
Flex your fingers and countdown the very best of the past month. It's the Top 10 of our Top 30 with a new tribute to Beruit from Galactic Caravan, and say hello to Doctor Nativo! Plus, brand new spins from Tokyo Ska Paradise, Jamaican veterans Inner Circle and more wonderful weirdness from Angine de Poitrine. Keeping time with the beat of the world!
World Beat Canada Radio July 4 2026
July 2, 2026, 8:44 p.m.
Flex your fingers and countdown the very best of the past month. It's the Top 10 of our Top 30 with a new tribute to Beruit from Galactic Caravan, and say hello to Doctor Nativo! Plus, brand new spins from Tokyo Ska Paradise, Jamaican veterans Inner Circle and more wonderful weirdness from Angine de Poitrine. Keeping time with the beat of the world!
Electronic Intifada Newscast July 2, 2026
July 2, 2026, 6:24 p.m.
Nora Barrows-Friedman brings us a recap of Palestinian news from June 25th to July 2nd, 2026
July 2, 2026, 12:18 a.m.
We'll hang out with Allan Sherman and play cheezy parody songs so get ready to swing your liver, Klaus actually does an entire song insteas of medleys and a monkee goes crazy on a record....yep more of the same you can hang out at the water cooler and tell everyone about...or is it a zoom call these days?
July 1, 2026, 8:40 p.m.
Gillen Tener Martin is a journalist and the Features Editor at the Washington Monthly, which recently published her article entitled "Gavin Newsom’s Tragic Mistake on Homelessness" We speak with Gillen via Zoom for the first half of the show.
Bobby Nichols is Tempe, Arizona's first Democratic Socialist City Councilmember and one of a slate of candidates endorsed by Bernie Sanders. Bobby is the former Phoenix Democratic Socialist of America's chapter chair and current member. He is the founder of Arizona Works Together, a pro-union political action committee operating at the state level. Additionally, Bobby Nichols works for the Office of the Arizona Attorney General as a state attorney representing Arizona's Departments of Child Safety and Economic Security in Superior and Administrative Court cases involving the abuse, neglect, and exploitation of minor children and vulnerable adults. We speak with Bobby Nichols for the second half of the show.
Iran remains strong in face of US aggression
July 1, 2026, 8:28 p.m.
Islamic Republic remains strong in face of US fake cease fires, threats and attacks.
July 1, 2026, 8:25 p.m.
San Francisco’s affordability crisis is pushing families to the brink, with housing consuming half their income and poverty rates nearing 23%. Community solutions are fighting back. Join us to discover with experts how outdated federal poverty lines hide the hidden true financial struggles, as families compromise on healthcare and basic nutrition. Learn how grassroots innovations like zero-interest lending circles (which help build credit) and shared childcare are empowering their communities to survive and thrive.
Between the Lines for July 1, 2026
July 1, 2026, 6:14 p.m.
Guerline Josef, Executive Director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance; Xavier de Janon, an attorney representing one of the defendants facing state charges; John Tarleton, Editor-in-chief of The Indypendent, New York City's free progressive monthly newspaper.
Upbeat Music Hour Show 306 Tribute to Howard Jones
July 1, 2026, 3:30 p.m.
Tribute to Howard Jones. Featuring all of his hits from the 80s and 90s.
July 1, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
Sunsara Taylor, the anniversary of Female Enslavement Day, when the Christian Fascists on the US Supreme Court ruled that women living in the US were second-class citizens, no longer in control of their own bodies. The Tulsa Massacre, which began May 31, 1921. Juneteenth by Rafael Kadaris of the RNL Show. “Bob Avakian For the Liberation of Black People and the Emancipation of All Humanity.” Frederick Douglass, What to the Slave is Your Fourth of July?” read by actor Keith David.
UNSC must not turnover detainees to Kagame
July 1, 2026, 12:49 a.m.
UN Security Council must not turn over detainees to Kagame's regime.
June 30, 2026, 9:46 p.m.
Denise and Johnny discuss relapse
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0880
June 30, 2026, 8:23 p.m.
The Stuph File Program is an eclectic, hour-long Canadian radio show hosted by veteran broadcaster Peter Anthony Holder. It features a mix of conversational interviews, odd news stories, author discussions, and pop culture.
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0879
June 30, 2026, 8:18 p.m.
The Stuph File Program is an eclectic, hour-long Canadian radio show hosted by veteran broadcaster Peter Anthony Holder. It features a mix of conversational interviews, odd news stories, author discussions, and pop culture.
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0878
June 30, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
The Stuph File Program is an eclectic, hour-long Canadian radio show hosted by veteran broadcaster Peter Anthony Holder. It features a mix of conversational interviews, odd news stories, author discussions, and pop culture.
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0877
June 30, 2026, 8:04 p.m.
The Stuph File Program is an eclectic, hour-long Canadian radio show hosted by veteran broadcaster Peter Anthony Holder. It features a mix of conversational interviews, odd news stories, author discussions, and pop culture.
June 30, 2026, 7:56 p.m.
Scott and Val Save the Universe - Comedy News Magazine
June 30, 2026, 7:53 p.m.
Roddy Scheer: Urban Nature Explorations
June 30, 2026, 7:26 p.m.
What better way is there to recognize the value of the natural world than to spend some quality time outdoors? This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with environmental journalist Roddy Scheer about his series of field guidebooks, which, incidentally, cover destination hikes as well as city trails. We look at how urban and easy-access trail guides can help raise people’s awareness of their surroundings, get a behind-the-scenes glimpse into what it takes to publish a field guidebook, and discuss some helpful technology for hikers.
June 29, 2026, 10:22 p.m.
This week on This Way Out: Emma Schulman takes to the LAPRIDE streets to hear what folks have to say about PRIDE, Plus, a Rainbow Rewind featuring Larry Kramer and in the news, the Supreme Courts of Nepal and Eswatini are ordering marriage equality and queer civil rights; don’t bet on trans protections in the U.K.’s game of PM roulette, and don’t bet on the New York Times for covering trans news; say goodbye to U.S.-funded AIDS care in South Africa, but say hello to animal world DEI in the documentary Second Nature..
If Music Could Talk - June 28 2026 - reggae, calypso, and soul 45s
June 29, 2026, 8:45 p.m.
June 29, 2026, 7:12 p.m.
A music and commentary radio show broadcast on WMBR in Cambridge. This program has a theme of Freedom, celebrating the time between Juneteenth and July 4th.
The Appalachian Bluegrass Music Hour with Danny Hensley
June 29, 2026, 2:25 p.m.
Welcome to the Appalachian Bluegrass Music Hour with Danny Hensley. A weekly program featuring the latest in Bluegrass Music track distribution by record labels such as Pinecastle, Billy Blue, Compass, Mountain Home Music, Mountain Fever Records, Turnberry Records, Sound Biscuit, Gravy Records, Sugar Hill, Rebel Records, Rounder Records and music distribution sources such as Get it Played and Airplay Direct.
Michael Parenti: Diversity And Orthodoxy In The News Media
June 29, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
On August 28, 2008 analysis of the media was Michael Parenti's most up-to-date contribution. He gave the keynote speech for the Modern Media Censorship lectures by Project Censored. Each year Project Censored gives awards for the most censored news stories of the year. Parenti lists important criteria by which to judge media bias, ranging from ownership to labeling, false objectivity and sensationalism, omission, outright lies and the denial of causality with the famous theory of "stuff happens".
Michael Parenti (1935-2026) wrote and lectured on the mainstream media for decades. His key book on this topic is "Inventing Reality - The politics of the News Media." With roots in a working class Italian district of New York and a Ph.D. in political science from Yale Michael Parenti became an internationally known writer and lecturer. He was the author of twenty books.