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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Neurology
Ongoing History Daily: Can music affect your eyesight?
A study by American scientists from the late aughts seems to indicate that music can affect your eyesight. When you’re
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Researchers analyzed hundreds of songs that give people chills. Here’s the playlist that resulted.
We’ve all had the experience of getting chills and goosebumps from hearing a piece of music. Neuroscientists love studying these
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Ongoing History Daily: Dance monkey(s)
Here’s some medical news directed at people like me who just can’t dance. According to a psychologist at the University
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Random music news for Thursday, April 8, 2021
Great. Now we’re on the CDC’s shit list. WHERE ARE OUR VACCINES? COME ON, GOVERNMENTS! Now that my rant is
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There are scientific benefits to listening to new music.
[Stuck listening to the same old songs over and over? You might want to treat your brain to music you’ve
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Music syncs the brains of audiences with the performers
We all know the feeling that comes over us during a great gig when the audience and the performer(s) seem
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Random music news for Friday, April 10, 2020
I completely forgot that we had a long weekend this week. Frankly, EVERY weekend for the last month has been
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Digging deeper into music’s effect on the mind and the body
We’re all familiar with how music fan affects from both physical and mental points of view. No one is denying
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[This is my weekly music column for Global News. -AC] As far as evolutionary biologists can determine, there was no
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The Ongoing History of New Music Encore Presentation: 9 Things About the Brain and Music
There is absolutely no need for music—speaking in terms of evolution, anyway. As far as scientists can tell, there’s no
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