Tag: songs

ScienceDaily (Apr. 15, 2011) Humpback whales have their own version of the hit single, according to a study reported online April 14 in Current Biology. At any given time within a population, male humpbacks all sing the same mating tune.
But the pattern of the song changes over time, with the new and apparently catchy versions of the song spreading repeatedly across the ocean, almost always traveling from west to east.

ScienceDaily (June 20, 2010) When zebra finches learn their songs from their father early in life, their brain is active during sleep.

That is what biologists at Utrecht University conclude in a paper published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Their findings are a further demonstration that birdsong learning is very similar to the way that children learn how to speak.

You picked out the songs and paid for them, so why is it so hard to move them from your iPod to your computer ? HowStuffWorks knows how and spills the beans.

NEW YORK, Oct. 30, 2008 (Reuters) MTV Networks announced on Thursday a deal to use songs by The Beatles in a custom video game similar to its popular "Rock Band" video, marking the groundbreaking band's first major plunge into digital music. ... > full story