Why music makes us feel, according to AI

Summary: Artificial intelligence helps shed light on how people's brains, bodies, and emotions react to listening to music. Music influences parts of the auditory cortex, including the Heschl's gyrus
Read more: https://neurosciencenews.com/ai-music-emotion-15151/?source=Snapzu

Here are New Yorkers’ most checked-out library books by borough

New Yorkers love nonfiction, and that’s a fact. The bestselling memoir “Educated,” by first-time author Tara Westover, was the most read book throughout all New York Public Library’s 88 branches in…
Read more: https://nypost.com/2019/10/26/here-are-new-yorkers-most-checked-out-library-books-by-borough/?source=Snapzu

Pamela Anderson calls on Canadian prisons to go vegan as cost-cutting measure

Actress Pamela Anderson is asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to take meat and milk off prison menus to help the planet and the health of federal inmates – and save taxpayers some cash, to boot.
Read more: https://globalnews.ca/news/6108291/pamela-anderson-calls-on-canadian-prisons-to-go-vegan-as-cost-cutting-measure/?source=Snapzu

Find Out What Words Were First Used in Print The Year You Were Born

The year I was born was the year that “fist bump” was first used in print. Other year highlights include “boom box,” “autocorrect,” “sleazebag,” and “buffalo wing.” Is this information I need to know? Probably not. Is it information that’s fun to know? Absolutely.
Read more: https://lifehacker.com/find-out-what-words-were-first-used-in-print-the-year-y-1839211547?source=Snapzu

One of America’s Largest Publishers Is Screwing Over Libraries

Libraries are fighting Macmillan Publishers over an ebook embargo that would make borrowing new ebooks much harder for folks.
Read more: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa78wv/one-of-americas-largest-publishers-is-screwing-over-libraries?source=Snapzu

Inside Hot Ones, the wildly popular and violently spicy YouTube show

Behind Hot Ones’ ambitions to be the future of late-night TV
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/31/20938739/hot-ones-sean-evans-youtube-guests-gordon-ramsey-idris-elba-late-night-tv?source=Snapzu

Lightfoot’s decision to eliminate library fines triggers 240% increase in book returns

Library Commissioner Andrea Telli says hundreds of long-overdue books have been returned in the three weeks since Chicago became the nation’s largest major city to jump on the no-fine bandwagon.
Read more: https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2019/10/30/20940677/chicago-public-library-no-fines-book-returns-increase-lightfoot?source=Snapzu