Six songs seems a small repertoire to address so grandiose a theme. Yet Daniel Levitin contentiously argues for six classes of song in his quickly published follow-on from This Is Your Brain On Music.

If you stand on a busy street corner in a city and close your eyes, you’re bound to hear lots of noise. The cars are honking, people are chattering, and the roar of construction never fades — it’s a ...

On March 14, a Russian SU-27 fighter brought down a US MQ-9 Reaper drone over the Black Sea. The exact details of where and how remain a mystery even after the release of drone video showing what ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union leaders are trying to overcome the cacophony of different opinions and voices over the Israel-Hamas war into one single political hymn in an attempt to have a bigger ...

In 1931 a Boston newspaper reported that the University was "hunting for someone who can lure harmony from 30 tons of metal." According to eight current members of Lowell House, the search has ended.

You could call it cacophony meeting sweet harmony. There was no other way to describe the sounds bouncing around the lobby of Lancaster's Marriott at Penn Square Saturday night, where hundreds of ...

In this Sunday’s responsorial psalm, the psalmist cries out, “O that today you would hear God’s voice!” Listening for the divine voice and seeking out true prophets are the topics of this Sunday’s ...

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