nightingale
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He laid out the "hard problem" of working out how and why any of the complex operations of brains give rise to conscious experience, such as our emotional response when we hear a nightingale sing.
From BBC ● May 25, 2025
Just as the familiar tune “In the Hall of the Mountain King” gradually builds speed “accelerando,” as the compositional notation is known, some birdsong does too, like that of the nightingale.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
The nightingale gives its lifeblood to create a perfect red rose.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2020
Face masks made of nightingale faeces, used by elite Japanese women for centuries, are one of the stranger beautifying techniques currently resurgent in western salons.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 19, 2019
He was a pale, thin man in early middle age; his name was Teukros Basilides, and his dæmon was a nightingale.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
This will be beneficial for a host of wildlife and rare species, including nightingales.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2025
In their 2020 study, Dr. Roeske and Dr. Tchernikovski compared recordings of thrush nightingales across Europe with examples from musical genres all over the world, including Western classical piano, Persian drumming and Tunisian stambeli.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
Grasshoppers, sand lizards, nightingales, and skylarks that are declining or threatened elsewhere have been found thriving in the city’s green spaces.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 2, 2022
Do nightingales shoot magic out of their cloacas?
From The Guardian ● Nov. 19, 2019
From there you can see the golden hills of Toledo and hear the nightingales sing.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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