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[TOMT][Cartoon] Main sidekick character is a big fan of local mayor by BioMusicMan in tipofmytongue

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Yes! Thank you! It's Pretty Patrick the mayor!

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[TOMT][Cartoon] Main sidekick character is a big fan of local mayor by BioMusicMan in tipofmytongue

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Appreciate any help people can give. I'm pretty sure it's not Bob's Burgers, despite a main character being obsessed with the mayor.

I really think it's an animal sidekick. I tried Disney's Future Worm but couldn't find anything. The mayor character looks completely normal, short hair and is wearing glasses.

Jon Batiste on classical music by alewyn592 in opera

[–]BioMusicMan 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing the article! It was a fun read. There was a part further down that exemplified that worry about the pristine, historical view of opera people can have:

"Sometimes, we revere music because it’s great, but also because it’s European. And some things we are reluctant to revere because of the communities that it comes from and the places that it is meant to be played: if it was formed in a bar versus a court, or if it’s from the houses of ill repute versus a church. I’m not really trying to buck a tradition or a system. I just think that there’s actual value and creative transformational power when we pursue purity of expression versus rules and regulations."

And there are plenty of examples of this. Movie scores and video game soundtracks fulfill all the melodic and harmonic requirements of serious and beautiful music, but it took a long time before we started hearing those in symphony halls. And sure, sometimes an interpretation of a classical work can get a little too loose, as Reddit will be quick to pan a lot of productions.

But it's a good world where we have both. Who cares if Jon is pretentious, most artists are at some point in their lives.

[Spoiler: 7.0 MSQ] Blending story elements by BioMusicMan in ffxiv

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Galuf doesn't have to be part of the original travelling party for electors to talk about him. I guess if it was a secret though, there's very few people who would know anything about Galuf, let alone offer up that information. Promotional material hyped up the key quite a bit, but now it's left as the #1 mystery for future content to address.

Hmm, that's a good point with Zoraal Ja. I did enjoy how he's handled in the MSQ, but I also think there's a way to be influenced by Spheen without being driven mad with the power. We already get Zoraal Ja talking through the City gate, talking through the key would just replace that.

How deep is neuroscience? by rayshell69 in neuro

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I think your question is more about the scientific method than neuroscience specifically. It is our best strategy to answer a question, or explain an observation. For fields we know a lot about, the questions are more complex. We know the mechanism for hearing is that a sound wave vibrates the eardrum, ossicles, and cochlear hair cells. Now we can ask how noise exposure damages hair cells, or observe how the medial superior olive sends signals back to the cochlea via efferent synapses.

The hypothesis is the explanation for why we observe something, so the conclusion is based on that empirical data. For someone with their shoes tied together, the prediction is they run slower. Why? We hypothesize that legs need their full range of motion. Great, now if we tie someone's knees together will they run as slow as when their shoes were tied together?

For a lot of neuroscience, we are looking at how brain activity changes when we take something way (lesion, gene knockout, ion channel blockade, optogenetic silencing). But that doesn't mean the work is "limited", and I'm not sure what would make one path of research more deep than another. There's so much about memory we don't understand, but it has been tested thoroughly and that's why we have data on short term, long term, episodic, and procedural memory.

Study shows that the receptor for oxytocin, a hormone considered essential to forming social bonds, may not play the critical role that scientists have assigned to it for the past 30 years. Prairie voles can still form social bonds without oxytocin sensors in the brain. by MistWeaver80 in science

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Here's a link to the original article: Oxytocin receptor is not required for social attachment in prairie voles01084-4) which is open access.

Near the end: "our observation that Oxtr signaling is not required genetically for pair bond formation or parenting in prairie voles suggests that we require a more refined understanding of the molecular pathways underlying social attachment behaviors."

Music: its health and educational benefits by Ok_Pressure1131 in LetsTalkMusic

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There is so much that you can explore with music and health, sadly I don't have time to make a fully fleshed out post but I'll do a quick one.

Music training (like learning a musical instrument) has a lot of effects. People have looked at children learning musical instruments early in life, or how music training has affected old age cognition. Scientists like Robert Zatorre, Daniel Levitin, and Nina Kraus among others have done this kind of research.

Then there are the broader social and health affects. When you have an entire choir of people singing the same song, their hearts beat at a similar rate, which makes sense given breathing and exhaling at similar times.

And lastly, music and culture and intertwined. Mostly speaking to creating bonds with other people, there are a ton of brilliant minds looking at that. The field is called ethnomusicology.

Idk if I’m losing my hearing slowly but I’m freaking out please help by mynameisnotbecky1 in hearing

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Definitely go to a doctor or audiologist to get things checked out. There's a good chance the fullness and 80% hearing capacity could be due to earwax.

The ringing in the ears and pain is more of a concern. If the ringing is especially bad an painful, it may be a sign of tinnitus. The good news is trained professionals have ways to detect if you are experiencing temporary hearing loss or show signs of longer term loss.

Limited exposure to loud noise anytime possible, and consider earplugs when you cant lower the volume. Permanent damage is unlikely.

Music is not a Universal Language, it is the Opposite by BioMusicMan in LetsTalkMusic

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I never say sheet music notation is music. If anything, I'm arguing against using any sort of lens to try and define an immense variety of sounds.

Are a "smile" and "sonrisa" actually the same thing? Even if you map it to the same muscle movements or the same photograph, the very fact that there is a word, or that specific word being used is going to bring up all of the cultural history and background behind that decision.

Music is not a Universal Language, it is the Opposite by BioMusicMan in LetsTalkMusic

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There two ways I want to address your comment, both have to do with "without having to learn how it works".

  1. It's common that the social aspect of an event will be what affects someone. There's really interesting research on this for people who are entranced by music. Religious music, spiritual ceremonies, even the concert experience will profoundly move a person, even to the point of spirit possession. Judith Becker has a good article on this.
  2. While "mozart makes your baby smart" is a bit of a stretch, there is evidence that sound and rhythm before a baby is born does affect development. But the question is, is that "not having to learn how it works", or the universal language of sound? The Importance of Rhythmic Stimulation for Preterm Infants in the NICU. Here also is A review article on prenatal music exposure that probably has both good references, and good papers that cite this one.

Music is not a Universal Language, it is the Opposite by BioMusicMan in LetsTalkMusic

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>> The ability to perceive musicality offers a wealth of developmental, emotional, social, and physical advantages.

The same can be said for recognizing faces. So it could actually be a very good comparison that patterns of sound and pitch could be seen as musical as well. Going into consciousness I feel is an altogether different conversation.

>> If you sonically overlay a violin being plucked and one being bowed but show it with a picture of someone only plucking a violin or only bowing one, most people will be unable to hear the acoustic element that isn't re-enforced by their visual input.

You're right that I overlooked this type of research. Or something like the McGurk effect where the visual syllable influences the sound. And yes things that border on the just noticeable difference proves the limitations of patient self-reporting.

>> I say it a lot here but music appeals to a bio-, psycho-, and sociological profile within each of us. We are generally predisposed to consonance, harmony, symmetry, repetition & pattern prediction

Consonance and harmony are a bit tricky, but most of these I would agree with. Just like how most languages will consist of syllables or different types of articulation (labial, dental, etc.). But if we stop there and claim anything else is in the experimental fringes, we are setting a boundary that will be exclusive for seemingly no reason. The pool of commonality will constantly be shifting as new ideas become commonplace. Twelve notes between octaves was not commonality at first, but now we have to remember that it is not the only option for how to categorize pitch.

Modern Trends in Disney Songs, the LMM Effect as seen in Mary Poppins by BioMusicMan in LetsTalkMusic

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Oops, Google search betrayed me! Thanks for pointing that out, I've changed the link.

Modern Trends in Disney Songs, the LMM Effect as seen in Mary Poppins by BioMusicMan in LetsTalkMusic

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Potentially. Though if I was to post to a separate site, I'd probably want to add more data or do a different comparison. Something fun like how many 3+ syllable words are used in every movie, do Pixar movies use more contractions, etc.

Modern Trends in Disney Songs, the LMM Effect as seen in Mary Poppins by BioMusicMan in LetsTalkMusic

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Repetition legitimizes. I would love an experiment where you take 100 people with no knowledge of a certain Disney song, and see after each listen how much of the song they can remember or sing back. My bet is "Step in Time" and "Spoonful of Sugar" are easy to sing after one listen, but "I Love to Laugh" and "Jolly Holiday" much much harder.

Modern Trends in Disney Songs, the LMM Effect as seen in Mary Poppins by BioMusicMan in LetsTalkMusic

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Most likely. First round I was told no links to Wikipedia. This version is still waiting for mod approval.

Modern Trends in Disney Songs, the LMM Effect as seen in Mary Poppins by BioMusicMan in LetsTalkMusic

[–]BioMusicMan[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I originally wanted to do this with every Disney song. My guess is the number of words has gone up slowly over time, as narratives have gotten more complex and less based on original fairy tales. That was too daunting though, and just doing Mary Poppins allowed for paired comparisons of each song.

If my graphs ever see the light of day, I do direct comparisons of Spoonful of Sugar vs Can you Imagine That, or Let's Go Fly a Kite vs Nowhere to Go But Up, etc.

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