Millions of people are caring for someone with severe memory loss, trying to find ways to connect. One of the best ways anyone has found is music. We examine the unexpected power of song to supercharge the human mind.

Original Air Date: August 17, 2019

Guests:

<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/shannon-henry-kleiber" target="_blank">Shannon Henry Kleiber</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/oliver-sacks" target="_blank">Oliver Sacks</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/francine-toder" target="_blank">Francine Toder</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/anne-basting" target="_blank">Anne Basting</a>

Interviews In This Hour:

<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/power-music-and-memory-music-was-waking-something-within-each-them" target="_blank">The Power Of Music And Memory: 'Music Was Waking Up Something Within Each Of Them'</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/deep-connections-our-brains-make-music" target="_blank">The Deep Connections Our Brains Make To Music</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/its-never-too-late-learn-play" target="_blank">It's Never Too Late To Learn To Play</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/macarthur-fellow-anne-basting-asking-people-dementia-beautiful-questions" target="_blank">MacArthur Fellow Anne Basting On Asking People With Dementia 'Beautiful Questions'</a>

Millions of people are caring for someone with severe memory loss, trying to find ways to connect. One of the best ways anyone has found is music. We examine the unexpected power of song to supercharge the human mind. Original Air Date: August 17, 2019 Guests: Shannon Henry Kleiber — Oliver Sacks — Francine Toder — Anne Basting Interviews In This Hour: The Power Of Music And Memory: 'Music Was Waking Up Something Within Each Of Them' — The Deep Connections Our Brains Make To Music — It's Never Too Late To Learn To Play — MacArthur Fellow Anne Basting On Asking People With Dementia 'Beautiful Questions'

Millions of people are caring for someone with severe memory loss, trying to find ways to connect. One of the best ways anyone has found is music. We examine the unexpected power of song to supercharge the human mind.

Original Air Date:&nbsp;August 17, 2019

Guests:

<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/shannon-henry-kleiber" rel="noopener noreferrer">Shannon Henry Kleiber</a>&nbsp;—&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/oliver-sacks" rel="noopener noreferrer">Oliver Sacks</a>&nbsp;—&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/francine-toder" rel="noopener noreferrer">Francine Toder</a>&nbsp;—&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/anne-basting" rel="noopener noreferrer">Anne Basting</a>

Interviews In This Hour:

<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/power-music-and-memory-music-was-waking-something-within-each-them" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Power Of Music And Memory: 'Music Was Waking Up Something Within Each Of Them'</a>&nbsp;—&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/deep-connections-our-brains-make-music" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Deep Connections Our Brains Make To Music</a>&nbsp;—&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/its-never-too-late-learn-play" rel="noopener noreferrer">It's Never Too Late To Learn To Play</a>&nbsp;—&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/macarthur-fellow-anne-basting-asking-people-dementia-beautiful-questions" rel="noopener noreferrer">MacArthur Fellow Anne Basting On Asking People With Dementia 'Beautiful Questions'</a>

Music on Your Mind

Wonder Cabinet is an independent podcast from Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson, Peabody Award-winning creators of public radio's To The Best Of Our Knowledge. For 35 years, that show brought long-form conversations to 200+ stations nationwide; its interviews are <a href="https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/ttbook">now archived in the Library of Congress</a>. Episodes feature intimate, long-form conversations with scientists, philosophers, writers, and artists who are re-imagining our relationship with the planet. Some study black holes or quantum entanglement; others map mycelial networks or count ancient tree rings. And some explore dream worlds, myths, and fairy tales to revive ways of knowing that challenge what we think we understand about the nature of reality. The name references Enlightenment-era cabinets of curiosities—private collections of shells, fossils, astronomical instruments, and saints' relics that existed at a moment when the scientific revolution was still in conversation with older ways of knowing the world. Today, another shift is taking place, as mechanistic models give way to more holistic, relational understandings of life on a sentient planet. Wonder Cabinet lives at that threshold. About the hostsAnne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson co-founded To The Best Of Our Knowledge. Steve hosts Luminous, a podcast about the science and philosophy of psychedelics, and is the author of <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/atoms-and-eden-9780199743162?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;">Atoms and Eden</a>. Learn more at <a href="http://wondercabinetproductions.com">wondercabinetproductions.com</a>.

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Wonder Cabinet is an independent podcast from Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson, Peabody Award-winning creators of public radio's To The Best Of Our Knowledge. For 35 years, that show brought long-form conversations to 200+ stations nationwide; its interviews are now archived in the Library of Congress. Episodes feature intimate, long-form conversations with scientists, philosophers, writers, and artists who are re-imagining our relationship with the planet. Some study black holes or quantum entanglement; others map mycelial networks or count ancient tree rings. And some explore dream worlds, myths, and fairy tales to revive ways of knowing that challenge what we think we understand about the nature of reality. The name references Enlightenment-era cabinets of curiosities—private collections of shells, fossils, astronomical instruments, and saints' relics that existed at a moment when the scientific revolution was still in conversation with older ways of knowing the world. Today, another shift is taking place, as mechanistic models give way to more holistic, relational understandings of life on a sentient planet. Wonder Cabinet lives at that threshold. About the hosts Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson co-founded To The Best Of Our Knowledge. Steve hosts Luminous, a podcast about the science and philosophy of psychedelics, and is the author of Atoms and Eden. Learn more at wondercabinetproductions.com.

Wonder Cabinet is an independent podcast from Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson, Peabody Award-winning creators of public radio's To The Best Of Our Knowledge. For 35 years, that show brought long-form conversations to 200+ stations nationwide; its interviews are <a href="https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/ttbook" rel="noopener noreferrer">now archived in the Library of Congress</a>. Episodes feature intimate, long-form conversations with scientists, philosophers, writers, and artists who are re-imagining our relationship with the planet. Some study black holes or quantum entanglement; others map mycelial networks or count ancient tree rings. And some explore dream worlds, myths, and fairy tales to revive ways of knowing that challenge what we think we understand about the nature of reality. The name references Enlightenment-era cabinets of curiosities—private collections of shells, fossils, astronomical instruments, and saints' relics that existed at a moment when the scientific revolution was still in conversation with older ways of knowing the world. Today, another shift is taking place, as mechanistic models give way to more holistic, relational understandings of life on a sentient planet. Wonder Cabinet lives at that threshold. About the hostsAnne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson co-founded To The Best Of Our Knowledge. Steve hosts Luminous, a podcast about the science and philosophy of psychedelics, and is the author of <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/atoms-and-eden-9780199743162?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;" rel="noopener noreferrer">Atoms and Eden</a>. Learn more at <a href="http://wondercabinetproductions.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">wondercabinetproductions.com</a>.

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