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CD Album Covers Wallpaper

Opinion: Musical genres are out of date – but this new system explains why you might like both jazz and hip hop

05 Aug 2016

David Greenberg (Department of Psychology) discusses the problems of labeling music by genre.

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Hank The Cat Eating Tuna Fish

Opinion: Why cats are fussy eaters but dogs will consume almost anything

13 Nov 2015

Hannah Rowland (Department of Zoology) discusses why different animals have different tastes when it comes to food.

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I Giovani e la Musica

The musical ages of modern man: how our taste in music changes over a lifetime

15 Oct 2013

New research charting broad shifts in changing personal music tastes during our lifetimes finds that - while it’s intrinsically linked to personality...

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Crowd

Substance over style? That’s entertainment

14 Mar 2011

Whether they affect the films we watch, the books we read or the music we listen to, our choices about entertainment often appear to have as much to...

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