‘This is Your Brain on Music’: How human mind and body respond to the beat

‘This is Your Brain on Music’: How human mind and body respond to the beat

Music and dance are so deeply embedded in the human experience that we almost take them for granted. They’re distinct from one another, but intimately related: Music — arrangements of sound over time — causes us to move our bodies in space. Without knowing it, we track pulse, tempo and...

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Yippies or disgusting yobs: Spectre of drunk and disorderly Kenyan yodellers

Yippies or disgusting yobs: Spectre of drunk and disorderly Kenyan yodellers

The arrest of 20 teenaged children in Nairobi’s Kahawa Sukari and at least 40 others in Webuye, western Kenya in just one week, sheds more light on a phenomenon that began unfolding since schools closed indefinitely following the outbreak of coronavirus more than nine months ago. The story despondent youth...

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Like it or not, Trump’s election attacks end December 14

Like it or not, Trump’s election attacks end December 14

Despite the Trump campaign’s fight to overturn the election, the wheels of American democracy keep turning. In the weeks since his loss to Joe Biden, President Donald Trump and his re-election campaign have attempted to cast doubt on the validity of the 2020 election and filed numerous unsuccessful lawsuits in...

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