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Electronic music reduces host attack and mating success in dengue mosquitoes

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Fuck you to elsevier link to full text: http://sci-hub.tw/https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/p...

Do you have a general technique for finding full papers? I often find myself at such a crossroad

Copy url to sci hub, simple as that. Or contact one of the authors.

Thank you for the direct link submitted.

And yes, I admit: yeah - fck else virus

Im not much into the kids music these days, but I looked this one up on Youtube and I'll admit, if i had to listen to it, I'd reconsider coitus as well.

If you think that's something, try the Noisia remix. The Noisia remix makes the original sound like elevator music. It's a shame the paper didn't mention whether the Noisia remix had any effect on Aedes aegypti compared to the original :-)

I wonder how well Knife Party would do.

a mosquito walks into a bar and goes home alone

loool: I shouted out loud laughing and all the kids and wife are around me, sleeping so well. Ok, i managed to cool down. Phew. One mosquito is still lone, bloodless and trying hip-hop tomorrow or 90s rave parties, At least the chicks wore fat heeled boots instead of converse chucks and the guys took amphetamine instead of opoids. Neverless most have always gone home alone.

I am into good (read that, musical, non-repetitive, not mindlessly derivative) electronic music, and can't agree more. I tried to like Skrillex. I don't get it.

You should be into Venetian Snares then. Pretty much non-repetitive, mindlessly derivative and fairly musical.

I prefer dancy and melodic electronic music, and tend to dislike drum-and-bass and dubstep, yet there was a short (several month) period where Skrillex caught me. In the 7 minute songs, it had just enough of the qualities that fit me

I would love some recommendations.

Relaxing: Emancipator, Phaeleh, Submotion Orchestra

Worldly: Thievery Coporation, Thunderball

Midtempo Pretty Lights, The Polish Ambassador, Defunk, most people who were on a PLMovement podcast (https://soundcloud.com/plmovement)

Melodic DnB: High Contrast, Nu:tone, Calibre

Trippy Bass: Tipper, AtYya

These artists have been highly influential back in the day (and still are), and covered/defined a wide spectrum of electronic music:

* Tangerine Dream

* Jean-Michel Jarre

* Kraftwerk

* Vangelis

* Klaus Schulze

Start there, explore. The Last.FM "similar to Jarre" page has a ton of great music and directions[1].

One-off recommendation: Tomáš Dvořák aka Floex. He wrote the Machinarium soundtrack, which is one of my most favorite electronic music albums of all time[2].

One sub-genre of electronic music that I've been enjoying lately is the growing synthwave (retrowave, chillwave, outrun, etc - they are not that different) scene, with artists like Timecop 1983, FM 84, Kavinsky, Miami Nights 1984, Mitch Murder, Le Matos, Dance with the Dead, Carpenter Brut, Gunship, Magic Sword, Power Glove, etc.

[1]https://www.last.fm/music/Jean+Michel+Jarre

[2]https://innerfx.bandcamp.com/album/machinarium-soundtrack

Above and Beyond, Odesza, Axwell, Steve Roach (if ambient is your thing), Kaskade, Daft Punk, Armin Van Buuren, Ferry Corsten.

By the way, by "non-repetitive" I don't mean no repetition at all, but that there is movement in the music. It may carry the same theme and beat, but it's evolving and going somewhere, and not just the same exact bar repeated 15 times in a row.

Good recommendations and I'd add an additional upvote for Above and Beyond. I feel like it's a good entrance into EDM.

Thank you (and colecut) for responding. I'm loading 'em up right now :-)

Amon Tobin

It's official, mosquitos rather face extinction than listen to "Brostep"[1]... I heard ya little guys..

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubstep#Brostep_and_American_d...

The article didn't mention anything about the volume at which they played the music. It'd be interesting to know because I live next to a lake and could benefit from less feeding mosquitoes!

Yeah this whole thing depends on volume. Obviously mosquitoes don't "listen" to music the same way we do. So effectively electronic dance music at a large volume becomes pulsating waves of air pressure. Relative to their size this could be quite disturbing if not destructive. A similar article written for humans might be "large scale detonations at close range results in blast waves which reduce reproduction in humans"

Your neighbors will hate Scary Monsters Nice Sprites as much as mosquitos do.

T. tested the concept in college

Solar power this, and it would be even more environmentally friendly!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEsQ4_KiBWQ

Not from a noise pollution perspective :)

In the city, I find the noise of a fan relaxing.

Weird, it causes the same reaction in humans...

You seem to be ignoring the rave scene

Always a smart move.

> The observation that such music can delay host attack, reduce blood feeding, and disrupt mating provides new avenues for the development of music-based personal protective and control measures against Aedes-borne diseases.

And what about the effects of noise pollution on insect populations?

Never mind that. How about the effects of noise pollution on the human populations?

Not the best day to post a headline like this one :)

Why?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day

Because it sounds like an April fools joke

Man im so out if it. Had flu all week, barely know the date.

April's fool

April fool's day

Link to the music in question (Skrillex - Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSeNSzJ2-Jw

You know, for science.

Maybe this is the real reason they moved the Ultra Music Festival to Virginia Key haha

I don't always look for the publication date before I skim the abstract, but...

On the other hand, earworms reproduction is explosive in presence of electronic music. You can't have all.

Dancing is better than sex

Having sex in the rave-family from the electronic scene in berlin of the 90s is still worth a minute to remember (at 250bpm), of course.

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