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You can incorporate these science-backed activities into your evening routine tonight.
Over 67,000 trials by the Color Guard can’t be wrong.
Did you know? Looped music has been used a means of torture.
Really puts the whole “don’t give up until you’re dead” thing to shame.
Carl Sagan liked to smoke weed. His essay on why is fascinating.
Saudade: the untranslatable Portuguese word that names the presence of absence and takes melancholy delight in what’s gone.
The money will go to her foundation, but is the tour really in the ‘Back to Black’ chanteuse’s best interest?
There’s a reason you can’t stop you head boppin’ to block-rockin’ beats, and why you can’t get a song’s hook out of your head.
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How does music influence behavior?
Does what kind of music you play alter the benefits you get by playing it?
A new study find a connection between having more testosterone and not liking classical, jazz, or avant-garde music.
America today has normalized crimes, both physical and spiritual, says Cornel West—and being indifferent to that is the worst of all evils.
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Musical savants have “enhanced pitch discrimination” and “increased auditory perceptual capacity.” But why?
New research shows how studying music helps the brain create new connections.
Carl Sagan was one of the people who helped shape this recording that might just end up in the hands of some other beings, somewhere out there.