Numbers can explain everything, even music, the Greek mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras believed. His 6th-century-BCE experiments of plucking stretched strings of different lengths ...

India is now a testing ground for whether demagoguery or deteriorating living conditions exert a greater sway on voters.

For him, it was not only theory, but also praxis. He treated Plato’s work ... Fascinated with the sects of Pythagoras (the creator of the word ‘philosophy’), Lutosławski decided to establish similar ...

While Greek philosophers like Pythagoras and Aristotle eventually proved the Earth was spherical, some cultures held onto the flat Earth view for centuries. The “flat Earth” theory content re ...

If you’ve ever wondered why your tracks don’t have that extra exuberance, it could just all be a matter of groove.

For a lucky few, writing music for a theme song can rake in millions of dollars and be, as one songwriter puts it, "the gift that keeps on giving." ...

We have long suspected that music has restorative qualities, but Daniel Levitin is now providing rigorous evidence that it ...

Pythagoras, the ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician ... These sayings, along with the phrase “Souls cannot ascend without music,” highlight an important aspect of Pythagorean eschatology: the ...

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