On the one hand, I would like to hear Robert Johnson, the godfather of blues guitar, cover Smells Like Teen Spirit. On the other hand, no

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NEW — I spoke to Tom, the guy at the South Carolina Trump rally who compared the president's supporters to the Jonestown Massacre. We talked about his loathing for Trump, his love of death metal, and where he learned his impeccable comedic timing. Read our full chat here:

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Excited our new paper is out in Science! We compared the songs of many birds to both speech and song in humans, finding that many fundamental sequence patterns are broadly shared. Check out the data explorer here: wavelengthscience.org/birdsong and the paper here: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

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Study of 367 bird species (74k elements, 5.9k songs) including vocal learners (oscines. hummingbirds) & nonlearners (suboscines, nightjars) + 52 human languages (15k elements, 800 speech/song phrases) suggests convergent motor mechanisms in bird & human vocalizations, independent of vocal learning.🧪

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