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A New CD With Songs On HIV/AIDS Prevention Launched

A CD intended to spread the message of HIV/AIDS prevention among young people has been produced by group of musicians as a part of the AIDS Responsibility Project.// The CD launched at this month's International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada was put together by volunteer singers and producers and is called 'What Are We Living For.' The CD contains songs, which emphasize on hope,...

Songs Could Help to Overcome Flood Trauma

Can a song help overcome flood trauma? Yes, say psychiatrists here who have come up with innovative ways of helping people to recover from the trauma caused by weeks of flooding.// A team of psychiatrists is urging people to get back to their daily routines and hum a motivational song when they can. While the song is being repeatedly broadcast on FM radio stations, the psychiat...

Heavenly Notes from a Life Etched With Disability: The Strangest Song

Aged 51, Gloria Lenhoff, struggles to do simple arithmetic or to make change for a dollar. She is incapable of pointing out which is left or right. //She can’t write down her name clearly, nor can she cross a road all by herself. She is a differently abled person. She can sing like a nightingale although her IQ is only 55. Trained well as a classical lyric soprano, she knows hundreds of s...

Gere Jives To Bollywood Songs To Spread AIDS Awareness

Hollywood icon Richard Gere Wednesday evening swayed to the tunes of catchy Bollywood numbers at a glittering event aimed at spreading AIDS awareness// that saw participation of over 10,000 sex workers in India's entertainment capital. Gere, dressed in a pair of black trousers, matching shirt and a brown jacket, danced to Bollywood actress Bipasha Basu's "Beedi Jalaile" to the delight...

Bird Song Study Provides Clues to Human Speech Disorders

A recent research has found that songbirds have a distinct right-brain response to the sound of songs, and can provide clues to human speech disorders . Researchers at the Methodist Neurological Institute (NI) in Houston and Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City used functional MRI to find out the results. The study has created base for a foundational study for futu...

Digital Music Project Aims to Save Tibetan Folk Songs from Extinction

An international team of anthropologists have embarked on a project to save Tibetan folk songs from extinction. Led by anthropology professor Gerald Roche, the volunteer-run Tibetan Endangered Music Project (TEMP) aims at digitalizing and archiving all the songs collected online, and return them back to the community. "The goal is to digitalize the songs we record and...

Use of Song in Disposable Diaper Campaign Enrages Beatles Fans

Some Beatles fans are furious over the latest use of a Fab Four song in a nappy commercial . The legendary bands 1967 peace anthem "All You Need Is Love" has been used to underline a new disposable diaper campaign, and devotees are enraged about the step. "For people who feel that political connection, it comes off as kind of a callous action. You've got the Beatles, w...

Researchers Developing smart Wardrobe' to Download Songs to smart Shirts

Australian scientists are developing a smart wardrobe that can download songs to smart shirts. Smart clothes contain battery-run electronics to monitor the heart rate or transmit music to wireless headphones . Now, Professor Bruce Thomas and his team at the University of South Australias Wearable Computer Laboratory have developed a prototype wardrobe with a computer in its base, wh...