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Found while foraging (September 23, 2013)

23 Monday Sep 2013

Posted by sedeer in Foraging

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Accumulating Glitches, biology, links, microbiome, music, Popular science, science, science and society, Science communication, Science in Society, Scitable, sexism, Species, street art, video, World War Z

It’s been a while since my last Found while foraging.  I guess I’ve been busy for the past few months and these posts have somehow fallen by the wayside.  They seem to be popular, though, so I’ll make an effort to keep them up and post link collections more regularly.  I’m also happy to get interesting links from readers, so send me anything you think is interesting and worth sharing.  And as always, though, feel free to add more links in the comments!
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Music, Memory, and Voices

18 Wednesday Sep 2013

Posted by sedeer in Humans

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biology, evolution, Human, Melody, music, Musical instrument, Popular science, science, Singing, Vocal music

Photo credit: Hannele Luhtasela-el ShowkHumans are remarkably talented musicians. We can recognize a tune despite changes like being slowed down or sped up or even if all of the notes are shifted to a higher or lower pitch. Though these may seem like trivial feats, most other animals can’t manage them. Experiments have shown that six-month old human babies can already distinguish musical pitch and recognize shifted melodies. These exceptional abilities suggest that humans might have some innate capacity to perceive and understand music, something like our hypothetical language faculty. Given that we’ve been able to sing for much longer than we’ve had musical instruments, it seems reasonable that any music capacity we evolved would be more attuned to vocal than instrumental music. Continue reading →

Found while foraging (May 28, 2013)

28 Tuesday May 2013

Posted by sedeer in Foraging

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Accumulating Glitches, ants, dinosaurs, Dyson sphere, evolution, music, neuroscience, Popular science, science, science and society, Science in Society, Scitable, Species, synesthesia, vampire

It’s time for another Found while foraging!  I’m going to do things slightly differently this time.  Instead of just sharing various tidbits I’ve come across online since last time, I’m going to focus on science-related stuff to celebrate the recent launch of my new blog, Accumulating Glitches, as part of Nature’s Scitable network.  I’d also like to take the opportunity to also point you towards some of my favourite posts from the other new blogs in the relaunched network.  I hope you’ll find them enlightening and entertaining!  As always, though, feel free to add more links in the comments!
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