….. and they’re not in receipt of lessons paid for by the public purse! Why? To optimise motor control in the face of ageing and injury, according to an article on Science Daily.
What was interesting from the point of view of music cognition is the idea that the birds, like most of us, require audio […]

Is it possible to use a blog to genuinely bring history to life? The answer is a resounding yes as this imaginative blog ably demonstrates.
As many of you may know, as well as being an advocate for all things Web2.0 I’m also a keen student of the Great War. As such, you can probably guess […]

My esteemed colleague across the water Dr. James Frankel, flagged up an interesting story from the NY Times which featured a mobile with a ring tone of such high frequency that people over the age of 30 were unlikely to hear it. This way young owners of the phone could get away with having their […]

Are you born with a musical ear or can it be developed? I’d say both.
Some people are born with boundless talent and often aren’t really aware of how they do what they do. Others are born with good aural ability, which can be improved by study. Others still seem to require a little more graft […]

According to Alex Ross, author of the very interesting blog (and book) on contemporary classical music entitled The Rest Is Noise, Monday 17th of December could be regarded as Worldwide Atonality Day.
Ross argues that the publication of Arnold Schoenberg’s Ich darf nicht dankend (scroll down to Zwei Lieder für Gesag und Klavier op. 14) marks […]

We always hear how kids are ripping off the net for the latest essay, but in the East end of Glasgow it’s kids who are the victims of someone else’s copyright abuse.

The people behind Flickr, the online photo sharing site, have gone into overdrive! They’ve just released some great tools for users which have a multitude of uses in the classroom as well.
I love Flickr. It’s a great source of inspiration and ideas for the classroom teacher, and it also allows me to have the vicarious […]

We previewed the Asus EeePC last month, a tiny computer which is cheap enough for most areas to buy in en masse. They’ve since sold out until January! Bill Kerr carries a great analysis between it and its closest competitor, the ‘One Laptop Per Child’ machine which has been designed for use in the Third […]

The front cover of this weeks New Scientist boasted a promising article about procrastination. Uncharacteristically, I ripped it open and began reading immediately. If anyone in my orbit would like to borrow it, just ask and I’ll bring it in sometime in the next fifteen years.
Seriously though, my mountain of NS back-numbers is quite redundant […]

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Will must have finally ended up with some spare time hunting around YouTube this morning to find this. University researcher Johnny Chung Lee has taken a £34.25 Wiimote, some old ballpoint pens and some infrared buttons you could find in your Physics department to create a system that can turn any surface into […]