Bench Talk | Strange Intelligence: Thinking in Unusual Organisms - Mozart Effect | August 14, 2023

Jade Coxon, a Biological Engineering junior at Purdue University (Indiana) discusses 'Strange Intelligence: Thinking about Thinking in the Most Unusual of Organisms'. Her passion about the evolution of intelligence stems from her fascination with the behavior of organisms as varied as squirrels, bees, and slime molds. Then, Dave Robinson discusses 'The Mozart Effect'. Does listening to Mozart make us smarter?

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Featured is a public-domain recording of the 'Sonata for Two Pianos in D major, K448; 1st Movement' written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1781, when he was just 25 years old.