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“Sing For Science” Podcast Releases Season Three: Science +Music=Magic

Frank Racioppi
2 min readOct 5, 2022
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Jeff Tweedy is an American musician, songwriter, author, and record producer best known as the singer and guitarist of the band Wilco. The band found critical and commercial success, most notably with Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost Is Born, the latter of which received a Grammy for Best Alternative Album in 2005.

Now team up the musically skilled Tweedy with a computational psychologist, and what do you get? I don’t know, but you can find out by listening to the season three opening episode of the Sing For Science podcast.

Talkhouse has just launched season three of the Sing For Science podcast with a brand-new episode that brings together Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy and Cornell University computational psychologist Dr. Shimon Edelman.

Sing For Science was created and hosted by New York musician Matt Whyte, each installment of the groundbreaking, multidisciplinary series pairs an acclaimed recording artist with a specially-chosen scientist, using a beloved song as the launching pad for a deeper conversation about a connected field and the world we live in.

Future guests for season three include folk legend Arlo Guthrie exploring nutritional anthropology and how it relates to his masterpiece “Alice’s Restaurant,” mxmtoon discussing ethnobotany and her song…

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Frank Racioppi
Frank Racioppi

Written by Frank Racioppi

I am a South Jersey author who manages Ear Worthy on several websites, newsletters, and social media. You can find my books on Amazon by searching my name.

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