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It’s Raining Awesome YouTube Videos!

March 28, 2011

Ever hear the saying “when it rains, it pours”? Well, it was raining awesome YouTube videos for me last week!
Below are three videos I highly recommend you watch. The first is an interview between Ellen (yes, THAT Ellen) and Jodi Picoult, author of the music therapist’s favorite new book, Sing You Home. They don’t chat [...]

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Musings on a Dancing Bird

May 14, 2009

It went viral. Millions of people have watched it. I posted links to three separate articles about it. It’s Snowball the dancing bird.
I listened to the following podcast this morning. Irena Schultz from NPR’s On Science did a more in-depth story on the science (and research) of dancing animals. To summarize:

It seems that Snowball adapts [...]

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Stop the Sensationalism

April 27, 2009

Two stories I read recently really ticked me off:

Composing Concertos in the Key of Rx.
Can internal “brain music” be used in therapy?

You may be wondering “Why Kimberly? Why did these articles make you mad? Don’t you want to world to know the power of music? How it can help others?”
Well, yes, I do. But not [...]

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