[Magdalen] also Daniel Levitin

[Sibyl Smirl]

OOOooooooops!

Sorry, Molly! I shouldn't have mixed the city names into a post 
basically about something else entirely, and my ignorance about Canadian 
cities.  I think I misplaced the college, and my fairly recent reading 
about Cohen's alma mater. I was just struck by the mention of McGill, in 
the context about discerning truth from lies, something the recent 
election and Facebook has had on my mind for some months now.

On 2/21/17 11:59 PM, Molly Wolf 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?



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