The Virtual Reality (VR) Treatment Program at the Duke Faculty Practice offers a new human-computer interaction form of therapy for individuals with anxiety disorders due to fear of heights, elevators, thunderstorms, public speaking and flying.
Widely recognized as a pivotal figure in early jazz, Morton is perhaps most notable as jazz's first arranger, proving that a genre rooted in improvisation could retain its essential spirit and characteristics when notated. His composition Jelly Roll Blues was the first published jazz composition, in 1915.
Eddie Vedder, right, and Matt Cameron of Pearl Jam performed at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony after David Letterman hailed the band as âa true living cultural organism.â Credit Chad Batka for The New York Times.