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Music promotion can be a hell for independent musicians. This article clarifies a few concepts to make our lives a little bit easier.The “E” factor
What is the "E factor"? The E Factor is a hypothetical construct, made to measure the evolutionary fitness of an organism and predict its survival probability.Types of EQ. A little tutorial
This is a tutorial about the basic types of equalizers. Beginning musicians will find it quite useful, as it clarifies some very fundamental concepts.Inside the amazing brain of an autistic savant
This article analyzes savantism, an amazing condition where autistic people possess extraordinary capabilities, beyond human norms, drawing from an interview of Daniel Tammet, a world-known savant.A few basic things about music theory: Pitch-class set theory and its uses
Pitch-class set theory is a music theory that encompasses all western music theory. This article discusses why it is useful and how you can use it.Using Absynth to understand harmonics
In this article we use Native Instruments' Absynth to understand what is the relationship between harmonic content and waveforms.Raskolnikov's Dream
Raskolnikov's Dream from crime and punishmentRaskolnikov's Dream
Raskolnikov's Dream is a melodic electronica project from Greece. Ethereal analog and digital melodies from the outer realms of sound.A few things about audio waveforms and fourier-transform
What is fourier transform and what it has to do with harmonics, waveforms and spectrum analysers? This article clarifies all these problems for beginners.Synthesizer basics
Synthesizers cause much confusion to beginners. This article outlines the most basic elements of synthesizers and their uses.Talking about MIDI: What is it and why it’s useful
MIDI is a protocol that allows the communication between all sorts of musical devices. There is some confusion about what it really is.What is audio? Discussing sample rate and bit depth
This article discusses the fundamentals of audio: sample rate and bit depth. We delve into the subject with a clarifying and simple way.What is a DAW and which one should I choose?
What is a DAW and which one should a new computer musician choose? This article deals with all the major DAWs helping you to choose the best one.What’s going on with evolutionary psychology?
What the hell is going on with evolutionary psychology? Every people out there seems to have an opinion on the subject.Can computation be the answer? The violation of the second law of thermodynamics
Stephen Wolfram proposed in his book A New Kind of Science that cellular automata can be the answer to all our questions.Agent based models in social sciences
Agent based models have recently arisen as a new way of thinking in social sciences. Can this novel approach be the answer to many problems concerning our way of thinking about social sciences?The death of Alexandros Grigoropoulos (drugs, guns, cops and tasers part II)
In 6/12/08 Alexandros Grigoropoulos was murder by a greek cop. Following this event, a series of violent riots and protests started in all of Greece.Free will revisited in the face of quantum physics
Free will is an ancient problem that has buffled philosophers and scientists alike.Deductive indeterminism - The case for a science of history
What is history? What are the mistakes that historians perform preventing history from becoming a true science and which is the solution?Behavioral economics revisited in the face of the recent economic crisis
Behavioral economics is a merge of psychology and economics. This discipline becomes even more important in the events of the recent financial crisis: the credit crunch of 2008.Logic
Logic and philosophy, despite what many people think, can have their applications in everyday life and science. This article discusses some of them.A new paradigm in cognitive science
The current paradigm is cognitive science, based on lab experiments has started to show its age. Maybe what we really need is a new trend called Cognitive Ethology.Dealing with the informational overflow
The flow of information is becoming faster as information increases in volume. How can our cognitive system cope with this rythm and what can we do ourselves?School sucks (you know it does!) and there’s a reason why
School sucks and there is scientific evidence why! This article studies the problems of the current educational system and offers some proposals as to how to solve them.Some thoughts on a new micro-economic model and paradigm, throug...
Various thoughts on the science of economy, its relation with psychology and its current paradigm with the goal of the...Lotteries, poverty AND credit cards this time
Why credit cards make us lose money? Why lotteries are a losing game? Why neurons can be the future of economic and political research?Seed agrees that video games make you smarter ;-)
Video games can make you smarter and Seed magazine has proof on that :)Near-Death experiences, the meaning of life, life after death etc…
Surely death is a matter that concerns us all. Since the dawn of time man has created any kind of crazy theory about what goes on after death. Is there an after-life?How a single neurotransmitter can provide the basis for the explanation of all social phenomena
The article speaks of Read Montague and how his discoveries concerning dopamines can provide the explanation of all things psychological, economic and social.The biggest crap I’ve ever read: The road to freedom of expression?
Nagasaki and Hiroshima were described as acts of compassion by the author of Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters.
