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The AMH Island Classic charity golf tournament, under the patronage of His Majesty King Hamad is all set to tee off at His Majesty’s private golf course in Safriya.
A friend of the Whisperer has a cute-looking canine with a split personality. Whilst he can cuddle it, turn it upside down, roll it a ball and be covered in loving licks for his troubles there are certain people that cannot even wander into the family garden without getting bitten.
How many times does the chorus repeat in your favourite song? How many times have you listened to that chorus? Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, professor and director of the Music Cognition Lab at the University of Akansas, has conducted extensive research on the topic, and has discovered that the ‘mirroring effect’ is a major factor in our love for repetition.
When you catch a new song on the radio, listen to it while shopping, hear it again in a restaurant … all of a sudden, you have a new favourite song. To investigate this, researchers asked participants to listen to classic 20th Century pieces by renowned artists which did not have repetition, and then a digitally-altered version which incorporated several repeats in the music.
