(20 Dec 2022) Here’s the latest for Tuesday, Dec. 20: House committee votes to release Trump’s taxes; a 6.4 earthquake hits California; parade in Argentina called off; “2023” numeral lights arrive in New York.

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The House committee investigating the Capitol riot of January 6th 2021 recommended that the Justice Department charge Donald Trump with four federal crimes.

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(19 Dec 2022) Here’s the latest for Monday Dec. 19: Jan. 6 committee recommends charges against Trump; Sam Bankman-Fried may return to US to face charges; Ohio man sentenced to life for killing eight; Kharkiv’s Christmas tree goes underground.

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Ukrainian officials said that electricity supplies had been restored in Kharkiv, the country’s second-biggest city, and water and heat were back on in Kyiv, the capital, after a wave of Russian missile attacks on the country’s infrastructure on Friday.

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/its-the-bass-that-makes-us-boogie/

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Concertgoers danced more when music was supplemented with low-frequency bass tones.

Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Karen Hopkin.

Hopkin: Ever notice that some music just really makes you want to dance?

Well, a new study shows that it is, indeed, all about the bass. Because researchers have found that, during a concert, boosting the bass bumps up the boogying. The results appear in the journal Current Biology.

Daniel Cameron: Music and musical rhythm have been kind of fascinating to me for a long time, since I was a kid. In particular, the way that they make us feel.

Hopkin: Daniel Cameron is a postdoctoral fellow at McMaster University. He also plays drums.

Cameron: As a drummer, you’re interested in making the crowd want to move and feel good and give a good pleasurable time feel. And this is related to the work I do in science.

Hopkin: Cameron and his colleagues want to understand how music can engender an almost irrepressible urge to feel our bodies in motion. 

Cameron: And we knew from anecdotal evidence and other experimental evidence that there was an association between bass and dancing.

Hopkin: So, people who enjoy electronic dance music, or EDM, report that the thrumming bass produces a sensation that makes them want to move. And some studies have shown that our movements are more fine-tuned when we’re locked onto bass notes.

Cameron: So, for example, if you have people tap along to a sequence of tones, their tapping is slightly more accurate, they’re more synchronized…when those tones are low in frequency compared to high in frequency.

Hopkin: So the researchers set out to determine:

Cameron: If you add more bass to music, will it cause more dancing?

Hopkin: Now, they didn’t want to manipulate the bass line in a way that was obvious. Because then people might consciously decide to step up their stepping out.

Cameron: That might be interesting…

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(18 Dec 2022) U.S. Supreme Court upholds the relocation and detention of Japanese-Americans during World War II; U.S. begins 12 days of heavy bombing of North Vietnamese targets; Steven Spielberg is born; Tchaikovsky's 'The Nutcracker' premieres. (Dec. 18)

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Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, said it had processed $6bn in net withdrawals between Monday and Wednesday, as FTX’s collapse continued to unnerve crypto investors

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Central banks in Europe and Britain followed the lead of the Federal Reserve by raising interest rates by 0.5 percentage points, lower than the previous rises of 0.75.

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(16 Dec 2022) Here are the top stories for Thursday, Dec. 15: Storm damages hospital in southwest Louisiana; Biden plans to visit sub-Saharan Africa soon; Three men sentenced for aiding Governor Whitmer kidnap plotter;Santa prepares for Christmas, receives letter from Ukrainian child.

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