The mind is like a muscle: it swells with exercise. Gould's and Kozorovitskiy's work reminds us not only how easy it is to hurt a brain, but how little it takes for that brain to heal. Give a primate just a few extra playthings, and its neurons are … [Read more...]
Dave, Way To Do Your Part
Dave Matthews Band "offsetting" its tour pollution: NEW YORK (Reuters) - American rockers the Dave Matthews Band and its fans have been bad for the environment since 1991, and now the group is making amends. … [Read more...]
Net Neutrality Moves To The Senate
The amendment failed by a tie vote of 11-11. All ten Democratic committee members voted in favor with Senator Snowe. The eleven remaining Republican members voted against the amendment. More... … [Read more...]
Triple Your Ability To Rock
Two Canadian mathematicians from the University of Moncton in New Brunswick, have created an entirely new kind of string instrument that exploits a kind of mathematics owing more to Pythagoras's theorem for triangles than to anything he ever thought … [Read more...]
Musicians Seek Tips On YouTube.com
Amateur Musicians, Athletes Seek Tips With Videos On YouTube.com...: When Eric Nguyen, a 20-year-old student in College Station, Texas, needed some help with a Chopin etude he was learning, he didn't turn to his piano teacher. Instead, he went on … [Read more...]
Naked Pitch
This is what happened to me today. I was listening to a piece of music and the first chord was the same as another song I've listened to many times. The voicing, the instrument, everything was the same. I had never made that connection before. To be … [Read more...]
Al Gore Got It Right, AP Reports
The AP is reporting that Al Gore got the science of climate change correct in his 'Inconvenient Truth'. Included are quotations from a number of apparently prominent climate change scientists. This is an interesting counter point to the story we saw … [Read more...]
Turkish-born record producer Arif Mardin dies
Turkish-born record producer Arif Mardin dies: Turkish-born record producer Arif Mardin, who helped shape hit recordings by the Bee Gees, Aretha Franklin, Willie Nelson and Bette Midler among many others, has died at age 74, associates … [Read more...]
Ear Training Software and Freeware for Mac and PC
Ear Training Freeware For Mac Aquallegro Eartraining X - 2.7.1 Pitch Coach Follow Me Ear Training Freeware For Windows Herken Cross Platform and Opensource Tete Ear Trainer EarToner InPitch RPitch hEar Montessori Bells Ear Trainer v2.0 My … [Read more...]
Colorado Senators’ Position On Net Neutrality
From Senate: Where They Stand Now (List Updated 9-15): Talking Points Memo is keeping a tally of where Senators stand as we close in on the vote. (The latest update occurred June 15.) Find your Senators' names. See where they stand. If they … [Read more...]
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