Aaron Saenz:

Rihanna's Umbrella was still dominating, but Kam’s song is infinitely more related to this blog than efforts to romantically share meteorological defenses. I am the Very Model of a Singularitarian is a catchy parody of Ray Kurzweil’s description of the Technological Singularity in his book The Singularity is Near set to the tune of I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General. Charlie Kam, who is one of the forces behind the LifeBoat Foundation, SIAI, and other future-minded institutions, sings the song himself.

Via Singularity Hub.

The New York Times:

Three years ago, when Oxford University Press published “Music, Language, and the Brain,” Oliver Sacks described it as “a major synthesis that will be indispensable to neuroscientists.” The author of that volume, Aniruddh D. Patel, a 44-year-old senior fellow at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, was in New York City in May. We spoke over coffee for more than an hour and later by telephone. An edited and condensed version of the conversations follows.

Via KurzweilAI.net.