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The Music-Language Connection
Originally posted on The Broad Spectrum Life:
Language likely plays a very significant role in music; both its composition and performance. In early or pre-human communications, phonic utterances could have been musical in nature. This is hard to say, but…
Winners and People’s Choice of the 2018 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year – Colossal
After sifting through nearing 13,000 submissions National Geographic has announced the winners, honorable mentions, and people’s choice of their 2018 Travel Photographer of the Year Contest (previously). This year’s grand prize was awarded to photographer Reiko Takahashi for her close-up image of … Continue reading
New neurons archive old memories – ScienceBlog.com
The ability to obtain new memories in adulthood may depend on neurogenesis — the generation of new neurons in the hippocampus — to clear out old memories that have been safely stored in the cortex, according to research in male rats … Continue reading
Sticks, Seeds, and Petals From the American Southwest Inspire New Insect-Shaped Arrangements by Raku Inoue
Raku Inoue (previously)recently look an extended road trip to several destinations in the American Southwest. During his journey he created a scorpion-shaped arrangement from seeds, sticks, and a pepper found at Antelope Canyon in Arizona, and utilized a fallen cactus segment near Horseshoe … Continue reading
Brazilian Culture: The Wild Northeast
Originally posted on Best of Brazil Blog:
Brazil’s vast rural northeastern region, or nordeste, has been compared to the Wild West of the US, or to Australia’s Outback. It has its own distinctive way of life, different from the rest of…
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How food — yes, food — can be a tool for social change — ideas.ted.com
Chef David Hertz is trying to build a movement that uses food to create jobs, increase empathy, and even address inequality. via How food — yes, food — can be a tool for social change — ideas.ted.com
Manchester Comics and Reading Festival 2018
Originally posted on SideFest blog:
Manchester Comics and Reading Festival has just been added to the convention list on our sister site! Comic Conventions – a SideFest site listing Comic Conventions in the UK and Ireland The MCR festival organisers introduce the event…
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Humans did not stem from a single ancestral population in one region of Africa
Originally posted on Thenewreports:
Source: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human HistorySummary: A scientific consortium has found that human ancestors were scattered across Africa, and largely kept apart by a combination of diverse habitats and shifting environmental boundaries,…
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