News tagged with musical taste

Chicks dig certain types of music

(PhysOrg.com) -- What accounts for the sounds we like to hear? Is it something about the properties of our auditory systems or brains? Or are such tastes learned? Two-month-old human infants show a preference for consonant, ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 07, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

'Nature or nurture' study reveals 'musical genes' (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you've ever wondered why a close group of friends might like completely different types of music, blame their genes. A study by Nokia and Kings' College London into the musical tastes of nearly 4,000 twins ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

You Are What You Listen To

(PhysOrg.com) -- It may not be possible to judge a book by its cover, but judging someone by the contents of their iTunes library could be a very different story, new research suggests.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (7) | comments 5




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Spider guitar dazzles with style and sound (w/ Video)

(Phys.org) -- Massey University mechatronics professor Olaf Diegel made his dream come true when he created a series of colourful 3D-printed electric guitars with latticed bodies adorned with spiders and butterflies. ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Facebook buys mobile discovery startup Glancee

Mere weeks from a multi-billion-dollar debut on the stock market, Facebook has ramped up its focus on mobile lifestyles with the purchase of "social discovery" startup Glancee.

Technology / Business

created May 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The ultimate babysitter? iPads for infants stir debate

Twenty-two-month-old George sits on a tiny blue chair, at a baby-sized desk, playing with a grown-up toy -- an iPad, sign of a powerful trend that has set alarm bells ringing among child development experts.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 6

Amazon aims to wring deep discounts from publishers

The bad news came to McFarland & Co. in an email from Amazon.com Inc. The world's largest Internet retailer wanted better wholesale terms for the small publisher's books. Starting Jan. 1, 2012 - then only 19 days away - Amazon ...

Technology / Business

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Microbiotas characterized for 19 traditional Italian sourdough breads

Italy is well-known for aesthetics that play to every sense of the human sensory system: automotive style, espresso, ancient architecture, music, and Fettuccini Alfredo, among much else. Now a team of Italian investigators ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Matching fans to music tops record industry agenda

After a decade-long battle against file-sharing, music and technology giants are now pushing users to share to their hearts' content, with online music recommendations a key issue at the MIDEM trade fair that ...

Technology / Other

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Web app could find out if a song has the X Factor

A new web app that allows budding musicians to score their own songs to find out if they have hit potential has been launched.

Technology / Software

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study of Facebook patterns suggests interests in music, movies unlikely to spread among friends

Using data collected from Facebook, Harvard sociologists have addressed one of the great unsolved puzzles of social science — do we form friendships with people because we share similar interests, or ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Google search gets more personal, raises hackles (Update)

Google is sifting through the photos and commentary on its blossoming social network so its Internet search results can include more personal information.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Over 65 million years North American mammal evolution has tracked with climate change

Climate changes profoundly influenced the rise and fall of six distinct, successive waves of mammal species diversity in North America over the last 65 million years, shows a novel statistical analysis led ...

Biology / Evolution

created Dec 26, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (17) | comments 16 | with audio podcast


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