With all of this talk about Sting's music becoming muzak, I thought I'd share this one to balance things out: A group of Danish scientists at the Center for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience under the Danish National Research Foundation (http://www.cfin.au.dk/) have conducted a study about music in the brain. Basically, they had a group of expert musicians and a group of non-musicians, and they studied which parts of their brains were active when they listened to music that contained a "a non-musical break in the rhythm". What does this have to do with Sting? The song that they used in the experiment was The Lazarus Heart. The study has resulted in a paper entitled "Keep The Rhythm! Polymetrics in StingÂ’s music activate BrocaÂ’s area and its right hemisphere homologue". You can read about the project here: http://www.cfin.au.dk/index.php?menu=192 and those who understand Danish can check out a tv programme about the study here: http://www.dr.dk/Videnskab/viden_om/Programmer/Musik+pa+hjernen/0214125839.h... (click the link "Se udsendelsen" in the top box). Mikkel -- "At first just a rustle of canvas And the gentlest breath on my face But a galloping line of white horses Said that soon we were in for a race" Sting - The Wild Wild Sea http://www.mzh.dk