NewsBlog: Music in the genes Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 14th March 2006 10:56 PM GMT] I caught wind of a study at Newcastle Upon Tyne on musicality the other day. Take a brief internet test to determine whether you can tell brief snippets of midi fashioned melodies apart. The goal, presumably, is sussing out people with amusia. It?s no secret that some can?t carry a tune. Some folks are simply terrible, off-key singers and don?t recognize it no matter what anyone tells them, but a small percentage of folks actually can?t distinguish... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Old mice wanted Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 7th March 2006 09:43 PM GMT] Interested in getting in on some big cash prizes but don?t have the sequencing capacity or rocketry experience to compete in the more well known X-prize competitions If you?re good with mice, all you might need is time. In putting together the March feature on aging by S. Jay Olshansky and colleagues we came across the Methuselah Mouse Prize... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Hooray for boobies Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 1st March 2006 09:57 PM GMT] I went to the Franklin Institute last night to watch a test screening of Galapagos a 1999 IMAX film that may be returning to the screen in Philadelphia. The movie is gorgeous, presenting the Galapagos islands as a ?little world within themselves? quoting Darwin, and one ?still in the process of creation,? marking the only time the c-word gets used. From the sparse, seemingly uninhabitiable volcanic lava floes, to shorelines teeming with... Click to continue Comment on this blog

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