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The Gist

The Science of Song

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, are children growing horns?  In the interview, how does Pandora know what music I want to hear? That's all thanks to the work of Nolan Gasser, musicologist and the architect of Pandora's Music Genome Project. He's here to talk the origins of the project, the classification of music species, and why Sarah McLachlan fans might be in for a surprise. Gasser's new book is Why You Like It: The Science & Culture of Musical Taste.  In the Spiel, the most ambitious climate deal the world has ever seen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This show may contain words that would offend the sensibility of certain habituaries of monasteries.

0:12.4

It's Thursday June 20th, 2019, from Slated to the Gist I, Mike Pasca,

0:17.1

and the news watch never stops.

0:18.8

We have new details of a strange new development in the field of children's heads.

0:24.6

A study of 1,200 people conducted by researchers at the University of the Sunshine Coast

0:30.2

found 41% of participants aged between 18 and 30 had developed a bony lump on the back of their

0:38.5

skull. We suspect that the reason for this bond's performance is because they carried their head

0:45.2

forward, but not just carrying their head forward. They carried their head forward for a long period

0:50.0

of time. Now what's much concerning about the findings is the horn-like spurs typically

0:56.6

don't present until far later in adulthood. It is unclear why that would be the most disturbing

1:03.0

and also unclear why an Australian university would name itself after a casino, but there you have it,

1:08.8

teens. Oh those teens, those crazy teens, what are they getting up to next?

1:14.3

The answer is they're growing horns. We now have a youth so afflicted.

1:18.4

He has to be called Alex and that his voice be disguised. Alex, how are you adopting to your life

1:25.0

with horns? Oh my god guys, you swore you disguised his voice, Alex. I am so sorry. I hope being

1:34.2

identified like that doesn't cause you too much difficulty in school. Yeah, I know kids can be cruel.

1:43.2

So these are in horns in the musical sense. They're not horns in the calumny against the

1:49.5

Jews sense. They're not horns in the Shakespearean sense of being a cuckold. They're not horns in

1:54.8

the animal sense. Kids aren't getting horny in the sense that you know kids are always horny

1:59.9

and we all know how kids get horny. They reach Shakespearean descriptions of cuckoldery. No,

2:04.7

if anything, these are tiny fragments of spurs. They're not spurs in the opposite of a loop-road

2:12.2

sense. They're not spurs in the cowboy boot sense and they're not spurs in the San Antonio sense.

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