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If making music isn’t the most ancient of human activities, it’s got to be pretty close. Melody and rhythm can trigger feelings from sadness to serenity to joy to awe; they can bring memories from childhood vividly back to life. The taste of a tiny cake may have inspired Marcel Proust to pen the seven-volume novel Remembrance of Things Past, but fire up the Rolling Stones’ “Satisfaction” and you’ll throw the entire baby-boom generation into a Woodstock-era reverie.   From an evolutionary point of view, however, music doesn’t seem to make sense. Unlike sex, say, or food, it did nothing to help our distant ancestors survive and reproduce. Yet music and its effects are in powerful evidence across virtually all cultures, so it must satisfy some sort of universal need — often in ways we can’t begin to fathom. A few years ago, a single composition lifted Valorie Salimpoor almost instantaneously out of a deep funk (it was Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No. 5, to be precise), and from that mo...

YouTube continues to be one of the most popular sites for people who want to make a name for themselves with videos. Every day, thousands of people upload videos of themselves trying to become famous. The problem is, that road is a complicated one and a lot of ups and down. The competition is real… Artists, Singers, Entertainers, Pranksters, Educators etc. All of them trying really hard to not be just a drop in the ocean but to gain as much attention as they can. In fairness, you cannot judge them and you can only understand their goals. YouTube is l iterally one of the easiest ways to make a lot of money once you’ve made a fan base. According to a list of the richest YouTubers from 2019 published on The Richest , it shows us how YouTubers are making from 14 million dollars to 22 million dollars within ONE YEAR. So why wouldn’t thousands of people try and do this themselves? It’s totally understandable. Get a camera, record yourself, make a vlog of you or your kids playing with toys,...

According to a popular view, creativity is a product of the brain's right hemisphere -- innovative people are considered "right-brain thinkers" while "left-brain thinkers" are thought to be analytical and logical. Neuroscientists who are skeptical of this idea have argued that there is not enough evidence to support this idea and an ability as complex as human creativity must draw on vast swaths of both hemispheres. A new brain-imaging study out of Drexel University's Creativity Research Lab sheds light on this controversy by studying the brain activity of jazz guitarists during improvisation. The study, which was recently published in the journal NeuroImage, showed that creativity is, in fact, driven primarily by the right hemisphere in musicians who are comparatively inexperienced at improvisation. However, musicians who are highly experienced at improvisation rely primarily on their left hemisphere. This suggests that creativity is a "right-brain abi...

The fact that you’re reading this right now is an indication that you’re considering investing on your YouTube channel. That’s the first step, congratulations! But way to go… We know the internet is a huge market and sometimes it can get annoying when you’re trying to find something you need but you can’t find it. In this case, we’ll give you some reasons why you should actually invest on YouTube subscribers. More subscribers mean more views and traffic. The more Subscribers you have the more chances that people will find and watch your videos. You get recognized by YouTube itself. When you hit 100k subscribers you’ll have a chance to get recognized by YouTube and receive a 100K ‘Play Button‘ as a gift from YouTube. Apply for monetization. Once you get the first 1,000 Subs, you can apply for YouTube Partner Program and make money from your videos. You can have your own fan base. Your Subscribers can turn into your fans and grow your ...

You can’t just ask someone, who hasn’t offered, whether they are gay or not. Although only clues, here are 10 ways for how to tell if someone is gay. There was a thing in my day called “gaydar.” It was a special ability that some people had for how to tell if someone is gay. But, I was not blessed with gaydar. When it comes to homosexuality, I have no idea who anyone bats for, or maybe I don’t really give it much thought, unless I was into someone and trying to figure out if I had a chance. There have been many instances in my life where someone suggested that my close friends were hitting on me, but I refused to see it. Since my brain isn’t wired that way, the thought never really dawned on me. There are many things that I recognize set straight people apart from gay. It isn’t just about their mannerisms or the way they talk. It is the company they keep and the little clues they give if you’re open to hearing them. Also, the things they don’t say are key to figuring out how to tell if...

 Music and science may seem to inhabit different universes--one of beauty and emotion, the other of logic and reason. But now, neuroscientists are placing them in the same solar system. Norman M. Weinberger, Ph.D., professor of neurobiology and behavior at the University of California at Irvine, explains how new research is beginning to reveal the role of music in brain function--and our lives. Nancy K. Dess: Is music in our genes? Norman M. Weinberger: Music exists in every culture, and infants have excellent musical abilities that cannot be explained by learning. Mothers everywhere sing to their infants because babies understand it. Music seems to be part of our biological heritage. NKD: So our brains evolved to process it? NMW: Not in the sense that a particular chunk of brain is musical. It's complex, because music has many elements--rhythm, melody and so on. For example, certain cells in the right hemisphere respond more to melody than to language. NKD: Music's complex rep...