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Daniel Levitin, the Glossary

Daniel Joseph Levitin, FRSC (born December 27, 1957) is an American-Canadian polymath, cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, writer, musician, and record producer.^[1]

201 relations: A Decade of Steely Dan, A Field Guide to Lies, Absolute pitch, Aja (album), AllMusic, Arsenio Hall, Artifact (film), Artists and repertoire, As Time Goes By (The Carpenters album), Association for Psychological Science, AT&T, Audio coding format, Bachelor of Arts, Banff World Media Festival, BBC Radio 4, Behavioral neuroscience, Ben Sidran, Berklee College of Music, Billboard (magazine), Bizarro (comic strip), Blue Öyster Cult, Bobby McFerrin, Boston Herald, Brain Games (2011 TV series), California, Can't Buy a Thrill, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC Radio One, Chris Isaak, Close to You: Remembering The Carpenters, Cognitive neuroscience, Cognitive psychology, Cognitive science, Colm Feore, Columbia Records, Contemporary Authors, Countdown to Ecstasy, Country music, Daly City, California, Dan Piraro, Dartmouth College, David Byrne, Democratic National Convention, Diane Warren, Diesel and Dust, Directional statistics, Dolby Digital, Donner Prize, Eric Clapton, Eric Clapton albums discography, ... Expand index (151 more) »
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A Decade of Steely Dan

A Decade of Steely Dan is a compilation album by Steely Dan, released in 1985.

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A Field Guide to Lies

A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age is a bestselling book written by Daniel J. Levitin and originally published in 2016 by Dutton (Penguin Random House).

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Absolute pitch

Absolute pitch (AP), often called perfect pitch, is the ability to identify or re-create a given musical note without the benefit of a reference tone.

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Aja (album)

Aja (pronounced "Asia") is the sixth studio album by the American jazz rock band Steely Dan, released by ABC Records on September 23, 1977.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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Arsenio Hall

Arsenio Hall (born February 12, 1956) is an American comedian, actor and talk show host.

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Artifact (film)

Artifact is a 2012 American documentary film directed by Jared Leto under the pseudonym of Bartholomew Cubbins.

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Artists and repertoire (or A&R for short) is the division of a record label or music publishing company that is responsible for scouting and overseeing the artistic development of recording artists and songwriters.

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As Time Goes By (The Carpenters album)

As Time Goes By is the posthumous fourteenth and final studio album by the American music duo The Carpenters.

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Association for Psychological Science

The Association for Psychological Science (APS), previously the American Psychological Society, is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to promote, protect, and advance the interests of scientifically oriented psychology in research, application, teaching, and the improvement of human welfare.

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AT&T

AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered at Whitacre Tower in Downtown Dallas, Texas.

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Audio coding format

An audio coding format (or sometimes audio compression format) is a content representation format for storage or transmission of digital audio (such as in digital television, digital radio and in audio and video files).

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.

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Founded in 1979, the Banff World Media Festival (formerly known as the Banff World Television Festival) is an international media event held in the Canadian Rockies at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, Alberta, Canada.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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Behavioral neuroscience

Behavioral neuroscience, also known as biological psychology, biopsychology, or psychobiology,, Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary is the application of the principles of biology to the study of physiological, genetic, and developmental mechanisms of behavior in humans and other animals.

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Ben Sidran

Ben Hirsh Sidran (born August 14, 1943) is an American jazz and rock keyboardist, producer, label owner, and music writer.

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Berklee College of Music

The Berklee College of Music is a private music college in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Bizarro (comic strip)

Bizarro is a single-panel cartoon written and drawn by American cartoonist Dan Piraro and later by cartoonist Wayne "Wayno" Honath.

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Blue Öyster Cult

Blue Öyster Cult (sometimes abbreviated BÖC or BOC) is an American hard rock band formed on Long Island in Stony Brook, New York, in 1967.

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Bobby McFerrin

Robert Keith McFerrin Jr. (born March 11, 1950) is an American jazz singer, songwriter, and conductor.

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Boston Herald

The Boston Herald is an American daily newspaper whose primary market is Boston, Massachusetts, and its surrounding area.

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Brain Games (2011 TV series)

Brain Games is an American popular science television series that explores cognitive science by focusing on illusions, psychological experiments, and counterintuitive thinking.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Can't Buy a Thrill

Can't Buy a Thrill is the debut studio album by American rock band Steely Dan, released by ABC Records in November 1972.

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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television.

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CBC Radio One

CBC Radio One is the English-language news and information radio network of the publicly owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Chris Isaak

Christopher Joseph Isaak (born June 26, 1956) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional actor.

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Close to You: Remembering The Carpenters

Close to You: Remembering The Carpenters is a 100-minute-long documentary that was released on DVD by MPI Home Video.

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Cognitive neuroscience

Cognitive neuroscience is the scientific field that is concerned with the study of the biological processes and aspects that underlie cognition, with a specific focus on the neural connections in the brain which are involved in mental processes.

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Cognitive psychology

Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning.

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Cognitive science

Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary, scientific study of the mind and its processes.

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Colm Feore

Colm Joseph Feore (born August 22, 1958) is a Canadian actor.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the American division of multinational conglomerate Sony.

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Contemporary Authors is a reference work that has been published by Gale since 1962.

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Countdown to Ecstasy

Countdown to Ecstasy is the second studio album by American rock band Steely Dan, released by ABC Records in July 1973.

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Country music

Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest.

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Daly City, California

Daly City is the second most populous city in San Mateo County, California, United States.

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Dan Piraro

Daniel Charles Piraro (born October 1958), is a painter, illustrator, and cartoonist best known for his syndicated cartoon panel Bizarro.

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Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire.

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David Byrne

David Byrne (born 14 May 1952) is a Scottish-American musician, writer, visual artist, and filmmaker.

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Democratic National Convention

The Democratic National Convention (DNC) is a series of presidential nominating conventions held every four years since 1832 by the United States Democratic Party.

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Diane Warren

Diane Eve Warren (born September 7, 1956) is an American songwriter.

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Diesel and Dust

Diesel and Dust is the sixth studio album by Australian rock band Midnight Oil, released in August 1987 by SPRINT Music label under Columbia Records.

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Directional statistics

Directional statistics (also circular statistics or spherical statistics) is the subdiscipline of statistics that deals with directions (unit vectors in Euclidean space, Rn), axes (lines through the origin in Rn) or rotations in Rn.

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Dolby Digital

Dolby Digital, originally synonymous with Dolby AC-3 (see below), is the name for a family of audio compression technologies developed by Dolby Laboratories.

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Donner Prize

The Donner Prize is an award given annually by one of Canada's largest foundations, the Donner Canadian Foundation, for books considered excellent in regard to the writing of Canadian public policy.

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Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton (born 1945) is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Eric Clapton albums discography

British guitarist and singer-songwriter Eric Clapton's recording career as a solo artist began in 1970, with the release of his self-titled debut, Eric Clapton.

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Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (FAAAS) is an honor accorded by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to distinguished persons who are members of the Association.

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Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Canada judges to have "made remarkable contributions in the arts, the humanities and the sciences, as well as in Canadian public life".

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Folk rock

Folk rock is a fusion genre of rock music with heavy influences from pop, English and American folk music.

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Freestyle (radio program)

Freestyle was a radio program on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio One network, which aired from 2005 to 2007.

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Gary Lucas

Gary Lucas (born June 20, 1952) is an American guitarist, songwriter, and composer who was a member of Captain Beefheart's band.

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Gaucho (album)

Gaucho is the seventh studio album by the American rock band Steely Dan, released by MCA Records on November 21, 1980.

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Gemini Awards

The Gemini Awards were awards given by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television between 1986–2011 to recognize the achievements of Canada's English-language television industry.

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Gold (Steely Dan album)

Gold is a compilation album by Steely Dan, released in 1982.

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Golden ear

A golden ear is a term used in professional audio circles to refer to a person who is thought to possess special talents in hearing.

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Good News About Mental Health

Good News About Mental Health was the first and only studio album by the San Francisco-based skate punk band the Afflicted.

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Good Will Hunting

Good Will Hunting is a 1997 American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.

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GQ

GQ (which stands for Gentlemen's Quarterly and is also known Apparel Arts) is an international monthly men's magazine based in New York City and founded in 1931.

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Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.

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Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California, known for their eclectic style that fused elements of rock, blues, jazz, folk, country, bluegrass, rock and roll, gospel, reggae, and world music with psychedelia.

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Haas School of Business

The Walter A. Haas School of Business (branded as Berkeley Haas) is the business school of the University of California, Berkeley, a public research university in Berkeley, California.

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Heart Shaped World (Chris Isaak album)

Heart Shaped World is the third album by Chris Isaak.

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Hugo Award

The Hugo Award is an annual literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year, given at the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) and chosen by its members.

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Ingénue (album)

Ingénue is the second solo album by Canadian singer k.d. lang, released in 1992.

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Interpretations (video)

The Carpenters' DVD Interpretations: A 25th Anniversary Celebration was originally released as a cassette tape and VHS tape in 1995 until 2003, with an updated release on DVD.

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Interval Research Corporation

Interval Research Corporation was founded in 1992 by Paul Allen and David Liddle.

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Jared Leto

Jared Joseph Leto (born December 26, 1971) is an American actor and musician. Daniel Levitin and Jared Leto are record producers from California.

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Jay Leno

James Douglas Muir Leno (born April 28, 1950) is an American television host, writer and comedian.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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Jessie Farrell

Jessie Farrell is a Canadian country music singer.

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Jimmy Page

James Patrick Page (born 9 January 1944) is an English musician and producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin.

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Joe Satriani

Joseph Satriani (born July 15, 1956)Prato, Greg.

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John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (officially known as the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, and commonly referred to as the Kennedy Center) is the United States National Cultural Center, located on the eastern bank of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. It was named in 1964 as a memorial to assassinated President John F.

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John R. Pierce

John Robinson Pierce (March 27, 1910 – April 2, 2002), was an American engineer and author.

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Jonathan Richman

Jonathan Michael Richman (born May 16, 1951) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist.

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Joni Mitchell

Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell (née Anderson; born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and painter.

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K.d. lang

Kathryn Dawn Lang (born November 2, 1961), known by her stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress.

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Karl H. Pribram

Karl H. Pribram (February 25, 1919 – January 19, 2015) was a professor at Georgetown University, in the United States, an emeritus professor of psychology and psychiatry at Stanford University and distinguished professor at Radford University. Daniel Levitin and Karl H. Pribram are Stanford University Department of Psychology faculty.

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Katy Lied

Katy Lied is the fourth studio album by American rock band Steely Dan, released by ABC Records in March 1975; reissues have been released by MCA Records since ABC Records was acquired by MCA in 1979.

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Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968.

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Lenny Kaye

Lenny Kaye (né Kusikoff; born December 27, 1946) is an American guitarist, composer, and writer who is best known as a member of the Patti Smith Group, led by vocalist and poet Patti Smith. Daniel Levitin and Lenny Kaye are American music journalists.

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Levitin effect

The Levitin effect is a phenomenon whereby people, even those without musical training, tend to remember songs in the correct key.

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Lloyd Levitin

Lloyd A. Levitin (born 1932) is an American businessman, former business executive and currently professor of clinical finance and business economics at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business.

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Los Angeles Times Book Prize

Since 1980, the Los Angeles Times has awarded a set of annual book prizes.

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Maclean's

Maclean's, founded in 1905, is a Canadian news magazine reporting on Canadian issues such as politics, pop culture, and current events.

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Margaret Boden

Margaret Ann Boden (born 26 November 1936) is a Research Professor of Cognitive Science in the Department of Informatics at the University of Sussex, where her work embraces the fields of artificial intelligence, psychology, philosophy, and cognitive and computer science.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Master of Arts

A Master of Arts (Magister Artium or Artium Magister; abbreviated MA or AM) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries.

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MC Hammer

Stanley Kirk Burrell (born March 30, 1962), better known by his stage name MC Hammer (or simply Hammer), is an American rapper, dancer, record producer and entrepreneur; known for hit songs such as "U Can't Touch This", "2 Legit 2 Quit" and "Pumps and a Bump", flashy dance movements, extravagant choreography and his eponymous Hammer pants.

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McGill University

McGill University (French: Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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MDC (band)

MDC is an American punk rock band formed in 1979 in Austin, Texas, subsequently based in San Francisco, and currently Portland, Oregon.

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Mel Tormé

Melvin Howard Tormé (September 13, 1925 – June 5, 1999), nicknamed "the Velvet Fog", was an American musician, singer, composer, arranger, drummer, actor, and author.

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Michael Brook

Michael Brook (born 1951) is a Canadian guitarist, inventor, music producer, and film music composer.

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Michael Posner (psychologist)

Michael I. Posner (born September 12, 1936) is an American psychologist who is a researcher in the field of attention, and the editor of numerous cognitive and neuroscience compilations.

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Midnight Oil

Midnight Oil (known informally as "The Oils") are an Australian rock band composed of Peter Garrett (vocals, harmonica), Rob Hirst (drums), Jim Moginie (guitar, keyboard) and Martin Rotsey (guitar).

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Minerva University

Minerva University (formerly Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute) is a private residential university headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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Montreal

Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America.

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MoodLogic

MoodLogic was a software company founded in 1998 by Tom Sulzer, Christian Pirkner, Elion Chin and Andreas Weigend, and was one of the first online music recommendation systems.

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Moraga, California

Moraga is a town in Contra Costa County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Music

Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content.

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Music psychology

Music psychology, or the psychology of music, may be regarded as a branch of both psychology and musicology.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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National Business Book Award

The National Business Book Award is an award presented to Canadian business authors.

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National Geographic

National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners.

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National Lampoon, Inc.

National Lampoon, Inc. is a company formed in 2002 in order to use the brand name "National Lampoon" in comedy and entertainment following the tradition of its magazine predecessor, The National Lampoon.

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Neil Young

Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian and American singer and songwriter.

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Neuroanatomy

Neuroanatomy is the study of the structure and organization of the nervous system.

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Neuroscience of music

The neuroscience of music is the scientific study of brain-based mechanisms involved in the cognitive processes underlying music.

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Neuroscientist

A neuroscientist (or neurobiologist) is a scientist who has specialised knowledge in neuroscience, a branch of biology that deals with the physiology, biochemistry, psychology, anatomy and molecular biology of neurons, neural circuits, and glial cells and especially their behavioral, biological, and psychological aspect in health and disease.

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New wave music

New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles from the 1970s through the 1980s.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Oregon Health & Science University

Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) is a public research university focusing primarily on health sciences with a main campus, including two hospitals, in Portland, Oregon.

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Orlando Julius

Orlando Julius Aremu Olusanya Ekemode, known professionally as Orlando Julius or Orlando Julius Ekemode (22 September 1943 – 14 April 2022) was a Nigerian saxophonist, singer, bandleader, and songwriter closely associated with afrobeat music.

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Palos Verdes High School

Palos Verdes High School (PVHS) is one of three public high schools on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Los Angeles County, Southern California, USA (the others being Palos Verdes Peninsula High School (formerly Rolling Hills High School) and Rancho Del Mar High School).

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Palos Verdes Peninsula

The Palos Verdes Peninsula (Palos Verdes, Spanish for "Green Sticks ") is a peninsula and sub-region of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, located within southwestern Los Angeles County in the U.S. state of California.

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Paul Allen

Paul Gardner Allen (January 21, 1953 – October 15, 2018) was an American businessman, computer programmer, researcher, film producer, explorer, sports executive, investor and philanthropist.

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Peter Case

Peter Case (born April 5, 1954) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Peter Himmelman

Peter Himmelman (born November 23, 1959, in St. Louis Park, Minnesota) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and film and television composer from Minnesota, who formerly played in the Minneapolis indie rock band Sussman Lawrence before pursuing an extensive solo career.

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Philips

Koninklijke Philips N.V., commonly shortened to Philips, is a Dutch multinational conglomerate corporation that was founded in Eindhoven in 1891.

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Polymath

A polymath (lit; lit) or polyhistor (lit) is an individual whose knowledge spans many different subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems.

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Pray for Rain (band)

Pray for Rain is a San Francisco, California-based music production company and recording group specialising in film soundtracks, led by St. Louis, Missouri musician Dan Wool.

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Pretzel Logic

Pretzel Logic is the third studio album by American rock band Steely Dan, released by ABC Records on February 20, 1974.

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Psychology

Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior.

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Psychonomic Society

The Psychonomic Society is an international scientific society of over 4,500 scientists in the field of experimental psychology.

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Pundit

A pundit is a learned person who offers opinion in an authoritative manner on a particular subject area (typically politics, the social sciences, technology or sport), usually through the mass media.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s.

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Quebec

QuebecAccording to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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Quebec Writers' Federation Awards

The Quebec Writers' Federation Awards are a series of Canadian literary awards, presented annually by the Quebec Writers' Federation to the best works of literature in English by writers from Quebec.

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Quill Award

The Quill Award was an American literary award that ran for three years, from 2005 to 2007.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the music recording industry in the United States.

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Regina Nuzzo

Regina Nuzzo is a professor of statistics at Gallaudet University in Washington D.C., a liberal arts school for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.

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Renée Fleming

Renée Lynn Fleming (born February 14, 1959) is an American soprano, known for performances in opera, concerts, recordings, theater, film, and at major public occasions.

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Repo Man (film)

Repo Man is a 1984 American science fiction black comedy film written and directed by Alex Cox in his directorial debut.

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Robin Williams

Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian.

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (RRHOF), also simply referred to as the Rock Hall, is a museum and hall of fame located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States, on the shore of Lake Erie.

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Rodney Crowell

Rodney Crowell (born August 7, 1950) is an American musician, known primarily for his work as a singer and songwriter in country music.

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Roger Shepard

Roger Newland Shepard (January 30, 1929 – May 30, 2022) was an American cognitive scientist and author of the "universal law of generalization" (1987). Daniel Levitin and Roger Shepard are American music psychologists and Stanford University Department of Psychology faculty.

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Rosanne Cash

Rosanne Cash (born May 24, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter and author.

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Royal Society of Canada

The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; Société royale du Canada, SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences of Canada (French: Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada), is the senior national, bilingual council of distinguished Canadian scholars, humanists, scientists, and artists.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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San Rafael, California

San Rafael (Spanish for "St. Raphael") is a city and the county seat of Marin County, California, United States.

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Santana (band)

Santana is an American rock band formed in San Francisco in 1966 by Mexican-born guitarist Carlos Santana.

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Seed (magazine)

Seed (subtitled Science Is Culture; originally Beneath the Surface) is a defunct online science magazine published by Seed Media Group.

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Shine (Joni Mitchell album)

Shine is the 19th studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, released on September 25, 2007, by Hear Music.

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Signal separation

Source separation, blind signal separation (BSS) or blind source separation, is the separation of a set of source signals from a set of mixed signals, without the aid of information (or with very little information) about the source signals or the mixing process.

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Song Review: A Greatest Hits Collection

Song Review: A Greatest Hits Collection is a double-disc compilation album by Stevie Wonder.

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Sonia Levitin

Sonia Wolff Levitin (born August 18, 1934) is a German-American novelist, artist, and producer.

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Sony Music

Sony Music Entertainment (SME), commonly known as Sony Music, is an American multinational music company owned by Sony Entertainment and managed by the American umbrella division of multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation.

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Sound design

Sound design is the art and practice of creating soundtracks for a variety of needs.

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Stairway to Heaven

"Stairway to Heaven" is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, released on 8 November 1971 on the band’s untitled fourth studio album (commonly known as Led Zeppelin IV), by Atlantic Records.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Stanford University School of Medicine

The Stanford University School of Medicine is the medical school of Stanford University and is located in Stanford, California, United States.

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Start the Week

Start the Week is a discussion programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 which began in April 1970.

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Steely Dan

Steely Dan is an American rock band formed in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York in 1971 by Walter Becker (guitars, bass, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals).

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Steely Dan discography

The discography for the American jazz rock band Steely Dan consists of nine studio albums, twenty one singles, two live albums, one live set on DVD, seven compilations and one box set in the United States.

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Steve Bailey

Steve Bailey is an American bassist.

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Stevie Wonder

Stevland Hardaway Morris (Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known professionally as Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer.

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Stevie Wonder discography

American musician Stevie Wonder has released 23 studio albums, three soundtrack albums, four live albums, 11 compilations, one box set, and 91 singles.

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Stewart Copeland

Stewart Armstrong Copeland (born July 16, 1952) is an American musician and composer.

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Sting (musician)

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known professionally as Sting, is an English musician, activist and actor.

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Subwoofer

A subwoofer (or sub) is a loudspeaker designed to reproduce low-pitched audio frequencies, known as bass and sub-bass, that are lower in frequency than those which can be (optimally) generated by a woofer.

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Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute.

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Susan Carey

Susan E. Carey (born 1942) is an American psychologist who is a professor of psychology at Harvard University.

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Susan Rogers

Susan Rogers (born August 3, 1956) is an American professor, sound engineer, and record producer best known for being Prince's staff engineer during his commercial peak (1983-1987), including on albums like Purple Rain, Around the World in a Day, Parade, Sign o' the Times, and The Black Album.

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Tenor saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.

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The Big Bang Theory

The Big Bang Theory is an American television sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, both of whom served as executive producers and head writers on the series, along with Steven Molaro.

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The Carpenters

Carpenters, also known as The Carpenters, were an American vocal and instrumental duo consisting of siblings Karen (1950–1983) and Richard Carpenter (born 1946).

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The Crow: City of Angels

The Crow: City of Angels is a 1996 American superhero film directed by Tim Pope from a screenplay by David S. Goyer, and sequel to the 1994 film The Crow in addition to the second installment in ''The Crow'' film series.

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The Crow: City of Angels (soundtrack)

The original soundtrack of The Crow: City of Angels, the sequel to the 1994 film The Crow, was released on July 29, 1996, by Hollywood Records.

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The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Listener (TV series)

The Listener is a Canadian fantasy drama television series created by Michael Amo.

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The Mentalist

The Mentalist is an American drama television series that ran from September 23, 2008, until February 18, 2015, broadcasting 151 episodes over seven seasons, on CBS.

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The Modern Lovers

The Modern Lovers were an American rock band led by Jonathan Richman in the 1970s and 1980s.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Organized Mind

The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload is a bestselling popular science book written by the McGill University neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, and first published by Dutton Penguin in the United States and Canada in 2014.

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The Royal Scam

The Royal Scam is the fifth studio album by American rock band Steely Dan, released by ABC Records in 1976; reissues have been released by MCA Records since ABC Records was acquired by MCA in 1979.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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The World in Six Songs

The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature is a popular science book written by the McGill University neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin, and first published by Dutton Penguin in the U.S. and Canada in 2008, and updated and released in paperback by Plume in 2009, and translated into six languages.

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This Is Your Brain on Music

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession is a popular science book written by the McGill University neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin, and first published by Dutton Penguin in the U.S. and Canada in 2006, and updated and released in paperback by Plume/Penguin in 2007.

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Tom Brosseau

Thomas Anderson Brosseau is an American musical storyteller and guitarist from Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States.

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True West (band)

True West is a guitar band, often considered part of the Paisley Underground.

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Twin/Tone Records

Twin/Tone Records was an independent record label based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which operated from 1977 until 1994.

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Two Against Nature

Two Against Nature is the eighth studio album by American rock band Steely Dan.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of Oregon

The University of Oregon (UO, U of O or Oregon) is a public research university in Eugene, Oregon.

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Unplugged (Eric Clapton album)

Unplugged is a 1992 live album by Eric Clapton, recorded at Bray Studios, England in front of an audience for the MTV Unplugged television series.

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Venice Film Festival

The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival (Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy.

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Venture capital

Venture capital (VC) is a form of private equity financing provided by firms or funds to startup, early-stage, and emerging companies, that have been deemed to have high growth potential or that have demonstrated high growth in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, scale of operations, etc.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Levitin

Also known as Dan Levitin, Daniel J. Levitin, Daniel Joseph Levitin, Levitin, Daniel.

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