Duke MagazineFeature articles from Duke University's bimonthly alumni magazineIn Search of Music's Biological Roots- May 12, 2008 Seeking to understand the universal appeal of music, neuroscientist Dale Purves has discovered surprising similarities between the twelve-note chromatic scale and the universal tones found in speech.http://dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/050608/music1.html Speaking Libertarian Lingua Franca- May 12, 2008 Ron Paul engaged voters in ways no other Republican dared and no Libertarian had thought to try. Will Paul's campaign mark the end of a revolution or just the beginninghttp://dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/050608/ronpaul1.html Everyone Wanted an El Greco- May 12, 2008 Art historian Sarah Schroth tracks down the lost collection of a powerful nobleman, reclaims a forgotten chapter in seventeenth-century spanish art, and helps launch an exhibit of astonishing power-the nasher museum of art's first blockbuster.http://dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/050608/elgreco1.html Why We Do the Things We Do- May 12, 2008 According to behavioral economist Dan Ariely, our lives are a series of ill-considered choices; his quest is to figure out the forces that make us, time after time, irrational decision-makershttp://dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/050608/ariely1.html |