[Magdalen] also Daniel Levitin

[Jay Weigel]

McGill was one of my brother's final two choices for medical school: the
other was Harvard. He finally chose Harvard. I believe his thinking at the
time was that a U.S. degree might carry more weight. I think he is now not
so sure, but he met his wife there, so it all evens out. :-)

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 12:59 AM, Molly Wolf <lupa at kos.net> wrote:

> McGill is in Montreal; its major rival is the University of Toronto,
> although there are many other first-rate Canadian universities -- Gail
> would know more than I.  McGill is certainly world rank and likely the best
> university in Canada.  And Montreal is gorgeous.
>
> Will check out Levitin, although chemo brain makes thinking difficult.  To
> quote one of my favourite LOL cats, "I cannot brain today. I has the dumb."
>
> I'm sure Cohen was a McGill grad.  He was a Montrealer born and bred.
>
> Molly
>
> The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no
> other way. -- Mark Twain
>
> > On Feb 21, 2017, at 11:46 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2/21/17 7:06 AM, ME Michaud wrote:
> >> Hope you're all familiar with his work.
> >> Cognitive neuroscience and music.
> >> (He's at McGill, I think).
> >>
> >> Anyhoo, he has an editorial in today's Boston Globe.
> >> Can't send the link (firewall).
> >> -M
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Thank you for the name!  I was not familiar with his work, but I googled
> his name, and though I didn't find the Boston Globe article, the results of
> the google caused me to download one of his books for my Kindle, "A Field
> Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age", and I'm loving
> it.  As of now, at least, I plan to get his others, one at a time.
> >
> > McGill is the one in Toronto, isn't it?  If so, did you know that
> Leonard Cohen graduated there?
> >
> > --
> > Sibyl Smirl
> > I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> > mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
>
>