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...]
Music for 06-27-06b
Intermezzo in A major by Johannes Brahms, Op. 118, No. 2. I'm still reading the whole way through. I would like to memorize it and just play it. Download: Music for 06-27-06b … [Read more...]
Music for 06-27-06a
Baby I'm a Star by Prince. I took my new Blue Snowball out to the garage today to try it out. I scratched up some vocal tracks for about an hour. It's all first and second take stuff. It turned out pretty good but I need more time to get a feel for … [Read more...]
How Do I Know What’s Real Anymore?
Charlie Chaplin Optical Illusion Want more? You can't help but be deceived by the dragon head. … [Read more...]
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