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A gold record album with a label that reads "The Sounds of Earth" at top and "United States of America / Planet Earth" on the bottom.

President Carter, Voyager, and UFOs

The other night we hosted a dinner party and one of our guests worked at JPL. I brought out my copy of Murmurs of Earth, published by Time Warner about 20 years ago to document the contents of the Voyager Golden Record. It’s one of the box sets I saved… 

A profile drawing of a person's head in gray, against a black, yellow, and white background with lines of sheet music. A large musical note and white swirls are drawn in the area of the brain.

Music and the Brain: An Enduring Partnership

Ever since I became entranced by Coltrane’s song “India” in my bedroom when I was sixteen, living at home, I’ve been aware of the power of music to affect the heart, soul, and spirit. Music has always exerted a powerful force on me, even before I could really put its magic powers into words….