Hemingway, Bach, Led Zeppelin: Neuron Culture’s Musical October

Posted on November 8, 2011 by David Dobbs · Leave a comment

‘Twas an aural month at the blog. Here are October 2011’s biggest hits at Neuron Culture: Listen: Hemingway’s Short, Moving Nobel Prize Speech I have read the speech a few times before. Yet when I listened to it today for the first time, at a time when I am re- reading his stories now and […]

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How Led Zeppelin + Franz Schubert = Writing

Posted on October 20, 2011 by David Dobbs · Leave a comment

Can you use the music of Led Zeppelin or Franz Schubert as models for writing? Of course you can! So I argued this past Saturday in a talk about structuring long nonfiction pieces at ScienceWriters 2011, the meeting of the National Association of Science Writers, held this year in Flagstaff. I hope to post a […]

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