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

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 "Florida," Nick Kroll on the Big Mouth theme, pediatric endocrinology, and the science of puberty, Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock and famed mycologist Paul Stamets on mushrooms, plus Margo Price, Alec Benjamin, Weezer's Rivers Cuomo, Korn's Jonathan Davis and Rhiannon Giddens on reproductive healthcare, psychiatry, computer programming, biology and ethnomusicology, respectively.

You can listen to the Jeff Tweedy's episode, looking at Wilco's "Less Than You Think" through Dr. Edelman's theory of human consciousness, in which it is entirely the product of a virtual reality simulation created by our brain: HERE.

While new episodes of Sing For Science continue to be released weekly on Wednesdays, Matt Whyte will also bring the show to a number of live events this fall - details will soon be revealed for a special series of tapings at the MIT Science Museum in Cambridge, MA, and on October 25th, the podcast will present Richard Reed Parry and Susie Ibarra at Public Records in Brooklyn NY, in a live conversation about cardiology. Maybe they'll play Heart Of Glass by Blondie.