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I just read this fascinating article on CNN.com about some of the latest science on music and it's wide-ranging benefits for people who play and listen to music. Read the whole article here. Some of the article's highlights: Why is music so prevalent and universal amongst the world's cultures? Music helps kids remember basic facts such as the order of letters in the alphabet. When you play music, you are exercising your brain in a unique way. [Music] allows you to think in a way that you used to not think, and it also trains a lot of other cognitive facilities that have nothing to do with music. Why do parts of some songs get stuck in our heads? Songs that get stuck in people's heads tend to be melodically and rhythmically simple. Given how easily song snippets get stuck in our heads, music must be linked to some sort of evolutionary adaptation that helped ...