I’m going to start by giving you five words to remember: stale, bring, instant, hanger, move. Memorize them and keep reading. Have you ever blanked on the words to a song in the middle of a ...

To learn a song, young white-crowned sparrows don’t need to hear the entire tune straight through. Hearing it in two-phrase bits will do. If the order of phrases in a pair is reversed—BA and DC ...