The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 955: Amazing facts about music, the brain, and the body
The most powerful and strangest lump of organic material in the known universe sits inside your skull. The human brain
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Biology
Fun with music and official scientific nomenclature (you’ll see what I mean).
[This extremely nerdy piece was my column for GlobalNews.ca over the weekend. I regret nothing. – AC] The rule in
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Some newly-discovered spiders have been named after some metal musicians
Outside of certain Latin-based nomenclature requirements, the rule in science is that if you discover it, you name it. Christina
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Yes, the Brains of Artists ARE Different
After having done thousands of interviews, I can tell you that artists are wired differently from you and me. The
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Joe Strummer Now Has a Namesake Snail
The scientific rule is this: you discover it, you get to name it. As long as some basic tenets of
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New Book on Sex, Drugs and Rock’n’Roll Entitled “Sex, Drugs and Rock’n’Roll”
I’m fascinated by how our brains work as we listen to music. Canadian biologist Zoe Cormier (the daughter of Toronto
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