Is our response to music hard-wired or culturally determined? Is the reaction to rhythm and melody universal or influenced by environment? Join host John Schaefer, Jamshed Barucha, scientist Daniel Levitin, Professor Lawrence Parsons and musical artist Bobby McFerrin for live performances and cross cultural demonstrations to illustrate music’s note-worthy interaction with the brain and our emotions.
There are billions of galaxies in the observable universe And each of them contains hundreds of billions of stars In one of these galaxies Orbiting one of these stars Lies a little blue planet And this planet is run by a bunch of monkeys
Now these monkeys don’t think of themselves as monkeys They don’t even think of themselves as animals In fact, they love to list all the things that they think separate them from the animals: Opposable thumbs Self-awareness They use words like Homo Erectus and Australopithecus
You say Toe-mate-o, I say Toe-motto They’re animals all right They’re monkeys Monkeys with high-speed digital fiber-optic technology But monkeys nevertheless
I mean, they’re clever You’ve got to give them that The Pyramids, skyscrapers, phantom jets, the Great Wall of China That’s all pretty impressive For a bunch of monkeys
Monkeys whose brains have evolved to such an unmanageable size that it’s now pretty much impossible for them stay happy for any length of time
In fact, they’re the only animals that think they’re supposed to be happy All of the other animals can just be
But it’s not that simple for the monkeys
You see, the monkeys are cursed with consciousness And so the monkeys are afraid So the monkeys worry The monkeys worry about everything but mostly about what all the other monkeys think Because the monkeys desperately want to fit in with the other monkeys
Which is pretty hard to do because a lot of the monkeys hate each other This is really what separates them from the other animals These monkeys hate They hate monkeys that are different Monkeys from different places Monkeys who are a different color
You see, the monkeys feel alone All six billion of them
Some of the monkeys pay another monkey to listen to their problems
The monkeys want answers and the monkeys know they're going to die So the monkeys make up gods and then they worship them Then the monkeys start to argue over whose made-up god is better Then the monkeys get really pissed off and this is usually when the monkeys decide that it’s a good time to start killing each other
So the monkeys wage war The monkeys make hydrogen bombs The monkeys have got their entire planet wired up to explode
The monkeys just can’t help it
Some of the monkeys play to a sold out crowd of other monkeys
The monkeys make trophies and then they give them to each other Like it means something
Some of the monkeys think they've all figured out Some of the monkeys read Nietzsche The monkeys argue about Nietzsche without given any consideration to the fact that Nietzsche was just another monkey
The monkeys make plans The monkeys fall in love The monkeys have sex and then they make more monkeys
The monkeys make music and then the monkeys dance Dance, monkeys, dance
The monkeys make a hell of a lot of noise
The monkeys have so much potential if they would only apply themselves
The monkeys shave the hair off of their bodies in blatant denial of their true monkey nature
The monkeys build giant monkey hives that they call "cities"
The monkeys draw a lot of imaginary lines in the dirt
The monkeys are running out of the oil which is what fuels their precarious civilization
The monkeys are polluting and raping their planet like there's no tomorrow
The monkeys like to pretend that everything is just fine
Some of the monkeys actually believe that the entire universe was created for their benefit
As you can see . . . these are some messed up monkeys
These monkeys are at once the ugliest and the most beautiful creatures on the planet
And the monkeys don’t want to be monkeys They want to be something else But they're not.
Esse cara produziu um rap sobre transmissão sináptica e foi um dos selecionados ente os melhores videos de divulgação cientifica promovido pela revista The Scientist.
Inacreditável. Me diverti até com isso, não preciso dizer.
Jacob e Esaú? Quem é o anti-Jacob? Seriam eles os jogadores que brincam com o tempo e o destino dos que visitam a ilha? Jacob, o que acredita na humanidade e nas mudanças que os visitantes possam trazer a ilha? Anti-Jacob (Esaú?) o cético que só vê a destruição que o novo trás sem aceitar o que pode renascer disso? Na minha opinião Anti-jacob era o monstro da fumaça e o persoonagem da cabana, que Ben achava que seria Jacob (que ele nunca viu). Preso por Jacob, esperando Locke o "libertar". Locke foi o "loophole", a ambiguidade das regras do jogo. O pedido de socorro a Locke me é sugestivo. "Me ajude a matar Jacob", seria a real intenção, que Locke nunca suspeitou. mas ao mesmo tempo Lock foi ressucitado e levado a ilha por Jacob. Estaria Jacob tramando seu próprio destino trágico? Porque? Seria sua morte necessária para sua libertação? Porquê Jacob traçou a vida dos 6 para levál-los a ilha. Porque ressucutar Locke, mas deixaá-lo paralítico para fazê-lo andar novamente na ilha, se isso foi tudo que seu inimigo precisava? Nem tudo é tão simples, tão preto-e-branco talvez. Creio que os persongems principais da série só foram introduzidos agora. A série é sobre a ilha e seus habitantes. Os 'losties" são apenas peões no jogo que eles jogam. E o que é a ilha? Um lugar capaz de se movimentar nas quatro dimensões, um lugar onde o futuro pode ser o passado e o presente qualquer época? Meu maior palpite: a ilha de Lost seria Atlantida. Porque? Pelas referencias mitológicas e pelo fato de Atlantida ter sumido no mar, como ocorreu no final da quarta temporada. Será? A ver. Adão e Eva? Rose e Bernard? Não. Muito óbvio. Não me surpreenderia que fossem Jack e Kate. Mas em que circunstancias eles teriam acabado lá eu não sei, mas seria irônico e no espírito da série.
