Teaching Modern Production and Songwriting Techniques: What Makes a Hit Song?

What makes a good teacher? Lessons from teaching medical students.

“Double hit” makes the difference

Multiple structural, biochemical and in vivo studies have solidified the role that histone acetyltransferases (HATs) play in regulation of the p53 pathway. 1 HATs are known to modulate p53 functions in many ways, from regulating its stability to promoting acetyla-tion-dependent interactions with DnA as well as various co-factors and chromatin modi-fiers. 1 Of these, p300, CBP, PCAF and Tip60 ar...

Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?

What Makes a Revolution

Although property rights are the cornerstone of capitalist economies, throughout history existing claims have been frequently overturned and redefined by revolution. A fundamental question for economists is what makes revolutions more likely to occur. A large literature has found contradictory evidence for the effect of income and income inequality on revolt, possibly due to omitted variable bi...

Hit Song Science Is Not Yet a Science

We describe a large-scale experiment aiming at validating the hypothesis that the popularity of music titles can be predicted from global acoustic or human features. We use a 32.000 title database with 632 manually-entered labels per title including 3 related to the popularity of the title. Our experiment uses two audio feature sets, as well as the set of all the manually-entered labels but the...