Just the Fact: Sex and Music
Daniel Levitin is the author of The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature.
In a new feature, non-fiction authors tell The Daily Beast about the most surprising factoid unearthed by their research. This week, Daniel J. Levitin on the link between sex and singing, as described in his new book, The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature.
How Empathy Can Save the Economy
Maia Szalavitz writes about the intersection between mind, brain and society for publications like Time online, the New York Times, Elle and MSN Health. She is co-author, most recently of Lost Boy, the first memoir by a young man raised in Mormon fundamentalist polygamy, Brent Jeffs. She is Senior Fellow at Stats.org, a media watchdog organization.
It may be the Supreme Court's buzzword du jour, but empathy's emotional conclusion-trust-is the underpinning of our economy. Post-crash and post-Madoff, how will America restore this complicated neurological function?
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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