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Are the Sounds You Hear Harmful or Beneficial?

Last week I talked about how sound travels and about how sound travels through your body. Some of these sounds are beneficial and some are not. Do you know how to tell the difference? Here is an experiment that offers you a physical experience of two contrasting...

Can You Speak Dolphin?

It has long been a focus of scientific research to decode the language of dolphins. Having a brain about the same size as a human being, it is believed that learning how to understand their language will give us an opportunity to communicate with another species...

Amazing Grace

A few months ago, I shared with you a video of the great vocalist, Bobby McFerrin, demonstrating how easy it is for people to predict a melody created with the pentatonic scale. It was one of the special moments of the World Science Festival in 2009. The brain...

Applied Psychoacoustics

In last week’s blog, I described aspects of the field of psychoacoustics in general. This blog focuses more specifically on applied psychoacoustics. The term, applied psychoacoustics has been used to describe music that has been created using psychoacoustic knowledge...

Sound Healing in Your Hip Pocket

In a recent interview, Dr. John Beaulieu, who was among the first to work with the Perfect Fifth Tuning Fork set, stated that the use of these forks train the nervous system to return to balance. He developed the ability to identify specific sounds of his nervous...