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Daniel Levitin on our musical brain
Music activates neurons in more regions of the brain than almost anything else scientists know of and causes the release of neurochemicals in our brains.
January 4, 2012
70,000+ EarthSky friends on Facebook!
With 18,000 friends on Facebook for EarthSky en Espanol and 52,000 friends on our English-language Facebook page ... the party is just starting.
January 3, 2012
Jean Auel on painted caves and writing about stone age life
Jean Auel talked to EarthSky about writing her bestselling novel, The Land of Painted Caves.
January 3, 2012
GRAIL spacecraft will use lunar gravity to peer inside moon
The GRAIL mission will study the moon's gravitational field via minute differences in the distance between the two craft as they orbit above the moon's surface.
January 3, 2012
2011 was a year of tornadoes
Here's a look at the amazing and record-breaking year for tornadoes - 2011 - in the United States and the world. Many videos in this post.
January 3, 2012
Rebecca Costa on thinking our way out of extinction
Costa warns that the accelerating complexity of our world problems - global recession, climate change, and pandemics - is outpacing our brain’s ability to solve them.
January 3, 2012
Humble people are more helpful, study shows
Past studies said the decision to help depends on things like time pressure, and the number of bystanders. But self-identified humility trumps these other factors.
January 2, 2012
Turn down the sound on your iPod or risk early hearing loss
One in four teens might be at risk of early hearing loss due to too many hours listening - at too high a volume - to music on their iPods and other MP3 devices.
January 2, 2012
Wild chimps sound alarms for unaware friends
Chimps are more likely to make alarm calls when snake is near when other chimps are unaware of the danger, the new evidence shows.
January 2, 2012
18,000+ EarthSky en Español Facebook friends!
As of early January 2012, EarthSky en Espanol had earned 18,000 friends on Facebook ... and counting!
January 2, 2012
