How” and “why” our brains like music are two separate questions. A recent popular article sheds light on how. Explorations of ...

In February, a pop-up science column, Annals of Inquiry, is appearing in place of Kyle Chayka’s column, Infinite Scroll. Chayka will return in March. Forty years ago, Bill Weiss, a student at Columbia ...

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