{"id":823,"date":"2012-08-15T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=823"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:27:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:27:35","slug":"podcasts-and-rhythmic-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/podcasts-and-rhythmic-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcasts and rhythmic power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/08\/promo-quirks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-830 alignright\" title=\"Quirks &amp; Quarks\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/08\/promo-quirks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/08\/promo-quirks.jpg 220w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/08\/promo-quirks-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a>Podcasts are a great way to pass the time while commuting to campus and an opportunity to learn something new.\u00a0 I admit that I got hooked on NPR&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/archives\/archive.php?thingId=129472378\">Pop Culture Happy Hour<\/a> podcast and fell a little behind on my sci\/tech favourites, but yesterday I caught up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/quirks\/\">Quirks &amp; Quarks<\/a> from CBC Radio. In the last episode of the season, Bob McDonald interviews McGill&#8217;s famous cognitive neuroscientist, <a href=\"http:\/\/daniellevitin.com\/publicpage\/\">Dr. Daniel Levitin,<\/a> who discusses how a 1\/f power law can be used to predict musical rhythms across genres and composers. You can read Dr. Levitin&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/109\/10\/3716.abstract?sid=8db22129-0b84-49bd-ae9f-01662da3f904\">paper<\/a> in PNAS.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many podcasts to explore from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/podcasting\/\">CBC<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/rss\/podcast\/podcast_directory.php\">NPR<\/a> alone but let me know if you have favourites to recommend.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/quirks\/podcasts\/\">Quirks &amp; Quarks<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Podcasts are a great way to pass the time while commuting to campus and an opportunity to learn something new.\u00a0 I admit that I got hooked on NPR&#8217;s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast and fell a little behind on my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/podcasts-and-rhythmic-power\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[90,7,89],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-music","tag-people","tag-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3106,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions\/3106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}