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The Man Behind Schoolhouse Rock!

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Music holds an extraordinary power for learning and memory. A good earworm can stay with you for a lifetime. If you grew up in the US during 1970s or early 1980s, odds are that reading the phrases “conjunction junction” or “three is a magic number” will start songs playing in your head, complete with useful grammatical or numerical information. Schoolhouse Rock! taught a generation our times tables and our way around a sentence. The short video below takes a looks at Bob Dorough, the man behind those songs.

About David Crotty

I am the Editorial Director, Journals Policy for Oxford University Press. I oversee journal policy and contribute to strategy across OUP’s journals program, drive technological innovation, serve as an information officer, and manage a suite of research society-owned journals. I was previously an Executive Editor with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, creating and editing new science books and journals, and was the Editor in Chief for Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. I received my Ph.D. in Genetics from Columbia University and did developmental neuroscience research at Caltech before moving from the bench to publishing. I have been elected to the STM Association Board and serve on the interim Board of Directors for CHOR Inc., a not-for-profit public-private partnership to increase public access to research.

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