tingilinde

on the douglas adams number

More than you probably imagined.

 

lobachevsky

Yesterday was the birthday of the mathematician Lobachevsky.  I first heard of him in a Tom Lehrer song, later learning he was a great mathematician.  Lehrer later said he didn't want to slight him, but the name just worked out for a song.  The song is a lot of fun.

a completely arbitrary ranking

Of Christmas songs so you don't have to.  Seriously I dislike most of the genre - perhaps online shopping is one of the few silver linings of the pandemic.

 

 

if your audience is made up of competent musicians

multiphone

A 1950 era jukebox in the cloud

a tip of the hat to Sukie

 

music the heart and more..

An interesting SciAm piece.

snip

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This is but one of multiple reasons music should be part of every heart physician’s toolkit. Music and the heart have been romantically linked in popular consciousness due to their shared connections to human emotions and the brain. History is replete with examples of emotionally charged events followed almost immediately by the death of the person. The surgeon John Hunter famously pronounced, “My life is at the mercy of any scoundrel who should put me in a passion,” before collapsing and dying after a heated board room meeting.

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stairwell singing

yasmin williams

Some rather nice work.  NPR's tiny desk Concerts piece on her.

 (This version won't go full screen in some browsers.  Go to the NPR link above if that's an issue)

rhythmic lemurs

Very cool, 

snip

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Indri songs may seem chaotic at first, but University of Turin biologist Chiara De Gregorio says they begin to sound less so the more one hears them. “When you get used to them you can really recognize a pattern in those songs,” she says. “When they start a phrase, you know what to expect, note after note.” In a study published Monday in Current Biology, De Gregorio, Ravignani and their colleagues analyzed recordings of 636 individual indri songs collected from 20 different familial groups to determine whether these booming lemurs do, in fact, possess rhythm.

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on the iPod 1

Twenty years and a few day ago the iPod 1 was announced.  Here's a bit on the event. 

a tip of the hat to Om