Music can take on many forms in cultures across the globe, but Yale researchers have found in a new study that some themes are universally recognizable by people everywhere with one notable exception — love songs.
“All around the world, people sing in...
How does architecture affect the way we live? Does it influence our health — and our healing? Fatima Naqvi, the Elias W. Leavenworth Professor of German and Film Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, explores these questions in a forthcoming book...
In late 2008, author Cynthia Ozick received a letter from author John Updike, who reported having pneumonia.
“I returned from Russia with sniffles that wouldn’t go away and now we have unleashed all the diagnostic hounds of Mass. General Hospital,” wrote...