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An Occasional Look at Research Results That Didn't Surprise Us

Smells like dead rock star: In case you needed another reason to skip this year's American Idol tryouts, researchers from Liverpool John Moores University, in England, have concluded that successful musicians tend to die at a much earlier age than those of us who strum air guitars in the living room and...

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