Experience Magazine

The judges included Mike Adams, the CEO of Moog Music — a company that had created another paradigm-shifting instrument — and Alfred Darlington, also known as electronic musician Daedelus, who raved about the possibilities that Singh’s invention opened up. But what it’s able to do defies the held beliefs of what an instrument should express.” Today, Singh is poised to release Infinitone DMT, a software based on the eponymous instrument, which will allow anyone to access notes they’ve only dreamed of. Western music teachers usually indoctrinate their students with Western notions about what is acceptable and what sounds good, says Anthony De Ritis, a composer and a music professor at Northeastern University. Indian music also divides each octave into 12 swaras, which roughly correspond to the Western chromatic scale, but there are only seven notes per octave, as opposed to 12 in the West.

Family Link uses location tracking technology that informs Steve of the kids’ locations at all time, so long as they’re carrying their phones. Cars can now come equipped with surveillance systems that not only share a teen driver’s location, but alert parents to how fast the car is going or even limit the speed a car can attain. Cellphone apps come with family subscription services that bundle options — location tracking, Internet monitoring, texting-while-driving alerts — into one system that parents can access at any time. The app, which launched in 2008, integrates what you might call “perpetual check-in” features, enabling parents to check on a teen’s driving speed in real time and get detailed reports on any high-speed or hard-braking events.

Neurogastronomy, an interdisciplinary field, brings together neuroscientists, chefs, food technologists, and agriculture professionals with the aim of deciphering the human brain and people’s behavior toward food. If they can do that, they could help great numbers of people: junk food addicts, cancer patients whose taste and smell receptors have been damaged by chemotherapy, and people with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and head injuries who have lost their ability to enjoy food. Neurogastronomy’s goal is to find “the most non-invasive ways to a heightened food flavor perception, without introducing unhealthy ingredients,” says Dan Y. Han, a professor of neurology at University of Kentucky who co-founded the International Society of Neurogastronomy. The only reason why we perceive foods that are high-fat, high-sugar, and high-salt as tasty is because we evolved in an environment where these things were extremely hard to come by,” Brenhouse says.

An oft-cited 2015 analysis of studies on millions of subjects, performed by Brigham Young University neuroscientist Julianne Holt-Lunstad, found that loneliness increased rates of early death by 26%, and social isolation increased mortality rates by 29% — regardless of outside factors like age, gender, and geographic location. “Crowds are a source of positive social support,” says Chris Cocking, a professor at the University of Brighton in the U. K. who studies group behavior and collective resilience. Uncertainty, like isolation, affects us on a physical level, taxing our brains and the rest of our nervous systems as we learn and anticipate a new set of social behaviors, according to Lisa Feldman Barrett and Karen Quigley, psychology professors who run Northeastern University’s Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory. whatever tragedy we’re facing in the moment.” Tabaque, the playwright and actor, predicts that a drive for meaningful contact will influence the types of theater people want to see, the spaces that patrons will want to visit, and the stages where artists will want to perform.