Caffeine Improves Memory In Bees; Beethoven on Speed
slashdot; also on this week's Quirks & Quarks.
Speaking of podcasts, Radio Lab had a recent episode entitled Speed (covering diverse subjects including the speed of nerve impulses/signals, the maniacal drive for faster and faster stock market trading, etc.) and followed up with a short about Beethoven's tempos, previously discussed in this space here and here.
Pulling up from the comments, for those interested in this sort of discussion I recommend this discussion from Benjamin Zander as well as his recording of the 5th and 7th which includes a companion CD discussing all of this, the choices he made, etc.
p.s. to you-know-who-you-are, maybe you should just buy me a replacement copy :-)
Speaking of podcasts, Radio Lab had a recent episode entitled Speed (covering diverse subjects including the speed of nerve impulses/signals, the maniacal drive for faster and faster stock market trading, etc.) and followed up with a short about Beethoven's tempos, previously discussed in this space here and here.
Pulling up from the comments, for those interested in this sort of discussion I recommend this discussion from Benjamin Zander as well as his recording of the 5th and 7th which includes a companion CD discussing all of this, the choices he made, etc.
p.s. to you-know-who-you-are, maybe you should just buy me a replacement copy :-)