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Welcome to the Science Podcast for May 8, 2015.

I'm Suzanne Bard, filling in for Sarah Crespi.

In this week's show, we have David Grimm up first with some online news stories,

and then we hear from Michael Minna about the role of the measles virus in increasing childhood mortality from other infectious diseases.

Support for the science podcast is provided by AAAAS, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, advancing science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all people.

AAAS, the Science Society.

Now we have David Grimm, editor for a daily news site.

He's here to talk about some recent online stories.

I'm Suzanne Bard.

It's been a hard day and night, sweet talk about some recent online stories. I'm Suzanne Bard. What was the biggest pop music revolution of the last 50 years? Was it when the Beatles came on

the scene in the 60s or hip hop in the 90s? Rather than leaving the question to the subjectivity

of human perception, researchers have turned to big data to analyze changing trends in melody,

rhythm, and harmony through time. Reducing a deeply human experience to algorithms sounds like a daunting

undertaking, Dave.

Yeah, well, you know, when you think about it, actually, though, music is pretty mathematical.

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