AskScience AMA Series: We are the Vanderbilt Music Cognition Lab, studying the biological basis of musical and language abilities. Ask Us Anything about musicality, language, brain and genetics! AMA! |
- AskScience AMA Series: We are the Vanderbilt Music Cognition Lab, studying the biological basis of musical and language abilities. Ask Us Anything about musicality, language, brain and genetics! AMA!
- Solar panels directly convert sunlight into electricity. Are there technologies to do so with heat more efficiently than steam turbines?
- Why is Tritium radioactive?
- What is the largest animal alive today that lives exclusively in rivers?
- Is there a way to know if a piece of information (document/file) was created at certain point, but not in a future time?
- Do plants have immune systems?
- What is the youngest (most recently formed) a piece of granite could be? I just read that they can be as old as 4 billion years, but it’s mind-boggling to think that I’m putting rocks that could be millions — let alone billions — of years old in the bottom of pots for my houseplants.
- Why do do electrons pair up in carbon ground state 2s orbital but don't pair up in the sp2 hybridised orbitals?
- How is it that 3 quarks together (in a proton) happen to have the exact opposite charge of a totally different type of unitary particle (an electron)?
- How does the COVID-19 virus affect apes, especially chimps?
- How do astronauts avoid harmful rays from the sun or get sunburn while in space?
- Would it actually be possible to create the most stable possible isotopes of elements heavier than einsteinium?
- Why is there so much concern about flu season this year, given that anti-COVID measures also work against flu?
- How do we know if herd immunity has been developed against a certain strain of virus/infection? Any examples in history?
- What are the most common ways for Covid to be spread?
- Covalent bonds are stronger than ionic?
- What distinguishes time from the other 3 spatial dimensions? Couldn't time just be seen as a 4th spatial dimension?
| Posted: 21 Sep 2020 04:00 AM PDT We are the Vanderbilt Music Cognition Lab, a research team dedicated to studying the relationship between musical skills and communication skills. We use tools from psychology, neuroscience, genetics, medicine, and engineering to better understand how and why humans engage with music and to what degree musicality interacts with language and social communication. Many of you readers probably have intuitions about how people with a more "musical ear" might have a leg up while learning a new language, or about how musical talent runs in families, or that children's music skills may be affected by the musical environment to which they are exposed. But did you know that what scientists are learning about music, genetics, and the brain may even be important for our understanding of childhood speech-language development? In 2015 we showed that children's rhythm skills are predictive of their spoken language skills. Many studies have also found that people with reading disability and speech problems are more likely to have difficulty with music rhythm. Our recent paper reviewed evidence for a new framework about rhythm and speech-language development. Discoveries in this emerging area could help solve an urgent public health problem, which is that many children with language problems are not getting identified or treated! Alongside this AMA, there is an opportunity to participate in research. Do you have good rhythm? Or is rhythm hard for you? All skill levels are welcome! Our new study examines the biological basis of musical rhythm, with an online rhythm test and optional mail-in saliva collection. Participants can choose to receive their rhythm scores at the end of the survey! Participation takes 10-20 minutes. Participants can choose to be entered in a raffle to win a $100 Amazon gift card. Click here https://redcap.vanderbilt.edu/surveys/?s=HWJKEPTXJE to learn more. Feel free to contact our team at VanderbiltMusicalityResearch@gmail.com with questions. Principal Investigator: Reyna L. Gordon, Ph.D. Let's talk about the scientific study of music and language in the brain - Ask Me (us) Anything! Bios
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| Posted: 20 Sep 2020 10:00 AM PDT I find it interesting that turning turbines has been the predominant way to convert energy into electricity for the majority of the history of electricity [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 21 Sep 2020 06:36 AM PDT Since radioactivity is caused by electromagnetic force outweighing the strong force, how is Tritium radioactive, since it only has one proton and therefore no repulsion? [link] [comments]  |
| What is the largest animal alive today that lives exclusively in rivers? Posted: 20 Sep 2020 09:12 AM PDT |
| Posted: 21 Sep 2020 04:29 AM PDT Besides something like carbon dating, if I create a piece of information or document, is there any mathematical or computer science way to prove that it was made, for example, on a Monday, and not on Tuesday by someone and put in Mondays date? [link] [comments]  |
| Do plants have immune systems? Posted: 20 Sep 2020 11:49 AM PDT |
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| Posted: 20 Sep 2020 08:06 AM PDT For example, with a CC triple bond, an electron configuration for carbon goes from 2s[2] and 2px[1] 2py[1] to sp[1]sp[1] and then 2px[1] 2py[1] but why don't the new sp hybrid orbitals fill up fully (i.e sp[2]sp[2] and 2p[0]) before the 2px and 2px orbitals like the 2s does in the ground state? I could probably better explain it in diagram format but I hope I get it across lol [link] [comments]  |
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| How does the COVID-19 virus affect apes, especially chimps? Posted: 20 Sep 2020 08:22 PM PDT If it affects them too, how do we take precautions we don't spread it to them? If it doesn't, is there something in their dna, that could help us cure it too? [link] [comments]  |
| How do astronauts avoid harmful rays from the sun or get sunburn while in space? Posted: 20 Sep 2020 07:18 PM PDT |
| Posted: 20 Sep 2020 07:36 AM PDT The isotopes of fermium and heavier elements that are the most stable would most likely have magic numbers of neutrons (2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 126, 184, 196, 236, 318). I've been focusing on the magic numbers 126 and 184, since they're the closest to the neutron amounts we have now. I've been trying to figure out what isotopes you could fuse together to create these magic number isotopes, but I don't think it would actually be possible, at least with current technology. This is because the isotopes we have now have neutron numbers that are kind of in between 126 and 184, and reducing or increasing the neutrons would require fusing isotopes that are simply too unstable. Therefore, creating those isotopes would require either multiple rounds of fusion in a single particle accelerator, which would need to be done at speeds that I don't think we've reached yet, or firing two beams of elements like lanthanides at each other, which would require much stronger magnets. Anyway, I'd love to see that technology developed, since it could create isotopes with half-lives of years, possibly enough to produce macroscopic amounts that we can study the properties of. My question is, how long would it take for experiments like this to begin being performed? I feel like doing multiple rounds of fusion wouldn't take more than 20 years to accomplish, but using two beams of elements half the mass of the desired product would probably take longer. As for what isotopes we would start with, I think it would be most efficient to make a magic-number isotope of fermium, then fire protons at it to get heavier elements, but I'm not sure how well that would work. I haven't been able to find answers with my own research, so what are your answers? I'll let you do the work. Thanks. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 20 Sep 2020 10:32 AM PDT The front page of the San Francisco Chronicle today says that flu cases are starting to hit the hospitals here and that this is a concern given COVID. We have relatively good mask-wearing compliance here. Why is there so much concern about flu this year given that anti-COVID measures generally work against flu transmission? I understand that anything that strains hospital capacity is bad, but why wouldn't we be expecting a milder than usual flu season? Is influenza more transmissible than Covid? is it transmitted through a different size of aerosol for instance, or more easily transmitted through eye mucosa or something like that? [link] [comments]  |
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| What are the most common ways for Covid to be spread? Posted: 20 Sep 2020 10:30 AM PDT Even though we're so deep into the pandemic I'n still hazy. Talking to people? Singing to people? Breathing close to people? Touching a surface that someone with Covid touched? Walking through contaminated air? Would appreciate someone clearing it up for me. [link] [comments]  |
| Covalent bonds are stronger than ionic? Posted: 19 Sep 2020 09:21 PM PDT " Unlike ionic bonds formed by the attraction between a cation's positive charge and an anion's negative charge, molecules formed by a covalent bond share electrons in a mutually stabilizing relationship. Like next-door neighbors whose kids hang out first at one home and then at the other, the atoms do not lose or gain electrons permanently. Instead, the electrons move back and forth between the elements. Because of the close sharing of pairs of electrons (one electron from each of two atoms), covalent bonds are stronger than ionic bonds. " https://opentextbc.ca/anatomyandphysiology/chapter/2-2-chemical-bonds/ Can someone please explain this better. I was always taught that ionic was stronger. My university textbook also says that covalent bonds are stronger [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 19 Sep 2020 04:21 PM PDT |
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