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When People Are Deaf to Music
When People Are Deaf to Music A small but significant proportion of the population are unable to perceive music as most people do -- and their condition is revealing new …
When people are deaf to music
Music has long been considered a uniquely human concept. In fact, most psychologists agree that music is a universal human instinct. Like any ability, however, there is g…
When the senses mix together
A. What is the colour of five? What is the sound of blue? To most of us such questions are either meaningless or suitable only for poetry. But for some people these are q…
Who Wrote Shakespeare's Plays?
A. Even today, almost 400 years after his death, the works of the famous English dramatist William Shakespeare have lost none of their appeal, nor have questions about th…
Why Good Ideas Fail
Why Good Ideas Fail How promising innovations are lost — and what organisations can do to stop it happening istory is full of good ideas that failed not because they were…
Why Should We Study History?
In this paper, I shall present a number of people's opinions on why we should study history. Let me point out at the outset that many of these views overlap, with differe…
Why We Need Silence
A. Humans are finely attuned to noise, and for good reason. From an evolutionary perspective, sounds give us vital information, helping us navigate the world and avoid da…
Why do we need the arts?
Sometimes people question why we need 'the arts': what functions do art, music, dance and literature serve? A. Imagine a world in which people spend hours working in offi…
Why do we need the arts?
A. Imagine a world in which people spend hours working in offices or factories, and then go home in the evening to sit down to dinner, after which they sleep until it's t…
Why don't we sleep?
A. Fifty-six million prescriptions for sleeping medication were handed out by doctors in America last year. Yet remarkably little is being done to understand insomnia's r…
Why good ideas fail
TF became a retail success in the 1970s when it succeeded in spotting homeware trends and meeting the needs of its then trendy young customers. However; by 2004, the IF s…
William Gilbert and Magnetism
A The 16th and 17th centuries saw two great pioneers of modern science: Galileo and Gilbert. The impact of their findings is eminent. Gilbert was the first modern scienti…
Willpower
Willpower What science reveals about self-control -- why some people have more of it, and how anyone can strengthen it A Willpower -- the capacity to resist short-term im…
Yawning
How and why we yawn still presents problems for researchers in an area which has only recently been opened up to study. When Robert R Provine began studying yawning in th…