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A Universal Property of Musical Scales Print E-mail
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Saturday, 26 March 2011 15:00
Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti ?Amsterdam, The Netherlands. There is a universal property of musical scales that makes it possible to recognize the music in very different groups of sounds produced by many different cultures around the world.

Scientists find patterns throughout nature, but biology shows that humans are themselves part of nature and produce artifacts, such as poetry and music, that can be examined in view of their fundamental and universal patterns. Music lovers often cite the universality of music as a means by which disparate cultures can find a basis for common understanding.

Last Updated on Sunday, 27 March 2011 00:13
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Experimental Philosophy and Free Will Print E-mail
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Sunday, 20 March 2011 03:00
Dr. Strangelove considers the matter of free will.Tucson, AZ, USA. Shaun Nichols examines the notions of free will and determinism by applying experimental methods commonly used by developmental psychologists and other social scientists.

On the one hand, it seems like everything that happens has some kind of causal explanation. On the other hand, when we make decisions, it seems to us like we have the free will to make different decisions.

Last Updated on Saturday, 19 March 2011 20:08
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Joanne Proctor, Noted IS/TS Advocate, Passes Away Print E-mail
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Thursday, 10 March 2011 12:30
Joanne ProctorAotearoa (New Zealand). Joanne Proctor, noted authority and activist for intersex and transsexual rights, passed away at home on or about Sunday, 27 February 2011. Known as "Jo" to her friends, an extensive medical history included chronic hypertension and angina. Hospitalizations had become more frequent in recent years, leading her to move away from her beloved rural location so she could be closer to urban medical care.

The funeral arrangements remain uncertain, but are expected to be held in the town of Te Kuiti, part of the rural Waikato region in New Zealand.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 March 2011 08:32
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The Odd Couple: Money and Happiness Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 22 December 2010 10:00
The Odd Couple: Money and HappinessLos Angeles, CA, USA. A new collaborative paper by economist Richard Easterlin — namesake of the Easterlin Paradox and founder of the emergent field of happiness studies — offers the broadest range of evidence to date demonstrating that a higher rate of economic growth does not result in a greater increase of happiness.

Across a worldwide sample of 37 countries (encompassing rich and poor, ex-Communist and capitalist), Easterlin and his co-authors document strikingly consistent results: over the long term, a sense of well-being within a country does not go up with income.

In contrast to shorter-term studies that have shown a correlation between income growth and happiness, this paper, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), examined the happiness and income relationship in each country for an average of 22 years and at least ten years.
Last Updated on Monday, 20 December 2010 22:41
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Can Tragedy Give Meaning to a Victim's Life? Print E-mail
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Thursday, 16 December 2010 16:00
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Seeing bad things happen to other people is scary. One way to respond to this is to blame the victim — to look for some reason why it happened to them. But there’s another common response, according to a new study published in Psychological Science. The researchers found that people who believe in justice in the world also believe that a tragedy gives the victim’s life more meaning.

“A lot of the time when people see someone else suffering, and helping them isn’t an option, people will instead justify the fact that something is negative is happening to them.

Because it’s scary for something negative to happen to a good person — that means it could happen to you,” says Joanna E. Anderson of the University of Waterloo, who cowrote the study with her colleagues Aaron C. Kay and Gráinne M. Fitzsimons. Anderson suspected that there was another way to feel better about someone else’s tragic experience: to believe that the negative experience is balanced by positive outcomes.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 December 2010 21:18
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