A really fantastic tribute to Carl Sagan, done as a song, using clips from his Cosmos television series.  I love the technology used to make him ‘sing’.  It’s quite effective when used in this way, and has produced a haunting melody and given his already wonderful way of speaking an interesting twist.  You can download the mp3 version by visiting the webpage listed at the end of the video.

I’ve always thought, as I suspect many of you have, that animals in general (and our pets in particular) will respond to human music, even like it.  It turns out that this idea may be wrong.  A recent study has revealed that monkeys don’t like human music, but will listen and respond to music based on the vocalizations they make.  This article from Wired explains the details.  I listened to both samples of music and found the fearful monkey music very irritating.  The happy monkey music wasn’t much better!