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Music is the perfect workout for your brain

Music is the perfect workout for your brain

If you want to train your body you should go to the gym. Do you want to exercise your brain? Then you should listen to music. Music impacts multiple parts of the brain. Did you know that music acts on the brain similar to cocaine? Listening to music increases dopamine...

Outsmarting Spotify with complete silence

Outsmarting Spotify with complete silence

In March 2014, an American band named Vulfpeck released the album Sleepify. With the money raised by this album they did a Sleepify tour across America with shows that people could attend free of charge. Nothing too special so far, what’s the catch? Well, Sleepify...

All the music in the world

All the music in the world

Won’t you stay with me. The words of this 2015 hit single were directed to a beloved one-night-stand. However, soon they involuntarily got a different meaning for writer Sam Smith, begging the money he earned with the song to stay with him. Without much success, as...

Musical roads

Musical roads

Rumble strips are small bumps in the side of the road to alert drivers when they stray away from the middle of the driveway. Especially for people driving long roads at night, such a strip can be a life-saving instrument. If a tired driver slowly drowses away, he or...

Perfectly out of tune

Perfectly out of tune

Almost everybody enjoys some nice piano music, at least occasionally. Although some more keen of the instrument than others, many would claim being able to diagnose an out-of-tune piano. Fact is, however, that a piano is never in perfect tune. I’ll tell you why....

Euclidische ritmes

Euclidische ritmes

Lang geleden vereeuwigde Euclides in zijn boek Elementen een algoritme. Tegenwoordig blijkt dit algoritme niet alleen zijn toepassingen te kennen in de wiskunde – Jorrit Visser

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