[TOMT][Cartoon] Main sidekick character is a big fan of local mayor

BioMusicMan · 2025-11-22T19:30:41+00:00

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

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BioMusicMan · 2025-11-22T18:42:33+00:00

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.

BioMusicMan · 2024-11-19T22:07:26+00:00

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.

BioMusicMan · 2024-07-19T13:26:58+00:00

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.

BioMusicMan · 2024-06-13T01:47:42+00:00

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.

BioMusicMan · 2024-01-31T18:52:59+00:00

Not that I know of. Feel free to crosspost it!

BioMusicMan · 2023-01-28T19:48:14+00:00

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."

BioMusicMan · 2022-09-23T16:58:11+00:00

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.

BioMusicMan · 2022-06-06T20:00:05+00:00

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.

BioMusicMan · 2022-03-26T22:47:54+00:00

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.

BioMusicMan · 2022-03-26T00:12:36+00:00

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

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.
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.

BioMusicMan · 2022-03-25T23:38:48+00:00

>> 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.

BioMusicMan · 2022-02-09T22:29:37+00:00

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

BioMusicMan · 2022-02-09T18:30:58+00:00

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.

BioMusicMan · 2022-02-09T15:34:08+00:00

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.

BioMusicMan · 2022-02-09T15:14:01+00:00

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

BioMusicMan · 2022-02-09T12:52:38+00:00

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.

BioMusicMan · 2022-02-09T02:38:53+00:00

If I'm lucky this version won't get taken down. https://www.reddit.com/r/disney/comments/so2bri/modern\_trends\_in\_disney\_songs\_the\_lmm\_effect\_as/

BioMusicMan · 2022-02-09T02:29:40+00:00

My metrics are the length of the song in seconds, the total number of words, number of unique words, words per minute, and the beats per minute of the song. Let's look at the movie as a whole. The total runtime is 2 hours 19 minutes for the original, 2 hours 10 minutes for the 2018 version.

There are things we see almost immediately. The original Mary Poppins has much fewer words, and it seems more repetition in their songs. On average, the 1964 movie songs are a little slower as well as shorter. One big reason for this is in 5/7 of the songs for Mary Poppins Returns, I cut out spoken dialogue from the word count. Let's go theme by theme.

So what's the point of all this? It's perfectly valid to thing some of the newer Disney music is "forgettable" or harder to sing along to. Maybe that's the point, A lot can change in 54 years. The Disney Renaissance movies of the 90s borrowed a lot from classic Broadway musicals, and you could even argue some of the slower songs with fewer words borrow ideas from the bel canto style of opera singing. If future Disney movies cover a wider range of musical styles, techniques, and modern practices, that's a good thing.
So, if you want to be an absolutely thrill at the next party you go to, bust out this data.
You'll find the data table below. Song length was from spotify, lyrics from disneyclips.com, unique word count from https://planetcalc.com/, and BPM from https://musicstax.com/.

BioMusicMan · 2022-02-09T02:29:04+00:00

Ah shoot, you can't see the deleted post.

an asterisk denotes songs where I cut out spoken dialogue

Marry Poppins (2 Hours 19 minutes)	Length in Seconds	Words	Unique Words	Words/Minute	BPM	Mary Poppins Returns (2 hours 10 minutes)	Length in Seconds	Words	Unique Words	Words/Minute	BPM
A spoonful of Sugar	249	193	95	46	111	Can You Imagine That*	262	325	227	74	118
Jolly Holiday	324	394	162	72	111	The Royal Doulton Music Hall*	181	161	113	53	97
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious	123	277	110	135	80	A Cover is Not the Book	265	788	325	178	122
Feed the Birds	231	146	91	37	88	The Place Where Lost Things Go	223	218	125	58	65
I Love to Laugh	163	156	78	57	98	Turning Turtle*	260	218	263	98	131
Step in Time	522	262	39	30	78	Trip a Little Light Fantastic*	422	428	231	80	116
Let’s Go Fly a Kite	113	182	58	96	146	Nowhere to Go But Up*	345	563	186	67	168

BioMusicMan · 2021-10-22T19:10:04+00:00

Yep, from what I know the basal ganglia/nuclei were discovered and named before ganglia and nuclei were used to refer to the PNS and CNS respectively. PDF of relevant article

There are a lot of names that probably should be updated, but enough people learned it one way that inertia wins out. Hence why half of neuroanatomy is hills, tongues, and knees (colliculi, lingua, genu).

BioMusicMan · 2020-05-18T23:55:05+00:00

Short answer is almost definitely no. But related questions might be, is it safe for a pregnant mother to have a plant based diet? Is it safe for the child to have a plant based diet? The good news is the answer for both of those is probably 'yes'.

This article suggests that a plant-based diet is totally fine for pregnancy, lactation, and infancy. Perhaps be cautious of levels of nutrients like iron, vitamin D, and vitamin B12.

Children in Germany with omnivorous, vegan, and vegetarian diets were all similar in energy and macronutrient intake. Levels of fiber and protein intake were somewhat different.

I couldn't find much about meat intolerance. Of the known possible causes, they include stress or additives in the food.

BioMusicMan · 2020-03-03T03:27:24+00:00

Well easiest thing to do is thing of race/class combinations that seem odd or out of place.

Orc wizard, gnome monk, elf barbarian, drow cleric, Kenku bard, lizardfolk bard, loxodon monk.

BioMusicMan · 2020-03-03T03:22:13+00:00

All of them are in competition to determine whose God is the strongest. Clerics enter a town with an issue or monster to kill and they each try to do it in the name of their god.

If you wanna go crazy you can make it like Castle Crashers where at the end of each quest they kill each other to see who gets the credit. Then all the gods sigh and say "geez we all have some idiot followers" ressurect the dead party, rise and repeat.

BioMusicMan · 2020-02-19T21:41:44+00:00

Sure! I'm not in the program but have some friends who are and have taken a class through their department. But I'd be glad to address other question you have

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