Haven't we heard this argument before, at least in the context of television violence? Does exposure to violence breed violence? Many people would suggest a connection, but here's a twist: a study that considered the effect of exposure to violent scripture. In the March 8, 2007 edition of Nature (this article…
Many of us remember a scientific paper released back in October 2006. It claimed that more than a half-million Iraqi people had died as a result of the US invasion. The paper, published in Lancet, has been attacked ferociously by the Bush administration. The March 1, 2007 issue of Nature…
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[E]ven though people are spending as much time in their cars as they used to, consumers have been turning off music stations in droves. 27 per cent since 2001, I believe, about on par with the declines of CD sales. You would think this means people are just listening to…
This morning I tried to visit a site called OLGA (on-line guitar archive), a place where I had often gone in past years to check out chord progressions for pop/rock tunes. Many guitarists had worked out tunes as best they could, then posted them at this site. Over the years,…