Evidence Shows Musicians Have Better Memory, Smarts as They Age

Many of you are musicians, and that is looking like a good thing. There is evidence that there is a long-term payoff, as it keeps the brain sharp as you age. A quick summary article can be found here. I need to break out the trumpet again!

The Music of CERN

Thanks to Nathan:

This short audio clip was composed by taking particle data from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and formatting it so that it could be played through a computer. Each sound is made up of three pieces of data, which could correspond to a particles size, energy, the length of its life. This kind of music can be made with any sort of spectroscopy.

The full story from NPR