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Enriching musical minds
In music, there can be more behind a melody than just
how good it sounds. A piece can capture an emotion or tell
a narrative. In 2005, Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters
released the opera Ca Ira (There Is Hope), which
recounts the early days of the French Revolution. How do
you go about glorifying a revolution in music?
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'Afro' archives to be unlocked by new
grant
The Johns Hopkins University has been awarded $476,000
to collaborate with the Baltimore-based Afro-American
Newspapers to open the 115-year-old newspaper company's
historic archives to access by scholars and others.
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Grant to fund intersiciplinary study of
language
Which of the human brain's biological and
computational structures make language possible? What can
the recent advances in computer processing of human
language tell us about the nature of language and the
process by which children learn it? Is there a precise,
mathematical science of human language and, if so, what is
it?
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