The broken rhythms of ragtime, jazz and the blues fostered fresh tunes in common measure that blew the malingering European waltzes back to Vienna.
If it sounds excessive, consider that for nearly 70 years, the residents of White Springs and the rest of Florida have had Foster's river tune -- "Old Folks at Home," better known as "Way Down Upon the Swanee River" -- as their state song.
The air conditioning blows cool on the back of your neck; you tap your foot to the Foster the People tune playing softly on the loudspeaker.
But another idea is to use VR to foster mindfulness by tuning out the day-to-day and tuning into some calming VR vistas.
Those games are eternal not because I can make my rook look like a slavering alien or because David Beckham occasionally sprouts wings, but because their basic dynamics and rules are perfectly tuned to foster an almost infinitely interesting variety of tactics, strategies and results.
There are approaches that can be learned, skills that can be mastered, and environments can be tuned to foster increased creativity.
ITZKOFF: Foster the People picks up the tune for "Wouldn't It Be Nice".
Listen to Sam's selection of his favourite running tracks, featuring tunes from the likes of Foster the People, Phoenix and Grizzly Bear.
Foster's catalog of more than 200 tunes have been recorded by everyone from opera singers to bluegrass artists to alternative rock acts.
The size-dependent characterization of the materials has fostered the band gap tuning of semiconductor materials.
