“This layered process of figuring out what someone else is thinking – of mind reading – is both a common literary device and an essential survival skill. Why human beings are equipped with this capacity and what particular brain functions enable them to do it are questions that have occupied primarily cognitive psychologists. Now English professors and graduate students are asking them too.”
Tag: 04.01.10
Tom Dixon, 94, L.A.’s Voice Of Classical Radio
“Dixon already was a seven-year broadcast veteran in 1946 when he became a host on the classical station KFAC. It remained his home for the next 40 years. Fired from KFAC by its new owners along with other hosts in early 1987, Dixon presided over a nighttime classical music program at KUSC from 1987 to 1988 before moving to KKGO-FM … When he retired in 1998 at 82, Dixon was known as the Southland’s longest-running radio host.”