Brilliant State Senator Attaches Rectal Exam to Anti-Abortion Bill. Music: It's in your head, changing your brain. Bassist Victor Wooten says you don't need to start with the rules of music in order to play an instrument.
When you can't get a song out of your head, it means neural circuits are stuck in a loop Music, like sex, drugs and food, release the brain chemical dopaminePeople tend to agree on the emotions they hear in musicVictor Wooten, a famous bassist, approaches music as a language (CNN) -- Michael Jackson was on to something when he sang that "A-B-C" is "simple as 'Do Re Mi.'" Music helps kids remember basic facts such as the order of letters in the alphabet, partly because songs tap into fundamental systems in our brains that are sensitive to melody and beat.
That's not all: when you play music, you are exercising your brain in a unique way. "I think there's enough evidence to say that musical experience, musical exposure, musical training, all of those things change your brain," says Dr. Making music sound 'better' Ear worms Scientists think of these annoying sound segments as "ear worms. " 'Rasputin Was My Neighbor' And Other True Tales Of Time Travel : Krulwich Wonders...
He was old, but not ancient, the man next to us at the delicatessen.
It was 1973. My then girlfriend (now wife) and I had ordered dinner and this old guy, sitting by himself, seemed lonely, so we got talking and he told us how he had grown up in St. Petersburg, Russia, and that when he was a boy, his next-door neighbor was a famous man, a really famous man. We asked, "Who was it? " And he said, "Have you ever heard of the mad monk, Rasputin? " I knew of Rasputin. How could somebody talking to me in a diner on 7th Avenue have also talked to somebody that ancient? I thought about it. Human Wormholes There are people who live long enough to create a link — a one-generation link — to figures from what feels like a distant past, and their presence among us shrinks history.
There are many examples of people who shrink history this way. 1. In 1956, on the game show I've Got A Secret, host Garry Moore brought on 96-year-old Samuel Seymour. Human wormholes and the Great Span. At the end of last week's post about John Tyler's grandsons still being alive (and indeed, NY Mag did an interview with one of them), I provided a couple of other examples of living personals bridging distant historical periods and asked: Someone needs to come up with a term for this sort of thing (history bridges?
No.) Faith in humanity. Battle of the Drugstore Lipsticks. Jethro Tull Tour History, annotated Passion Play and blog, at the Ministry Of Information. Old Man In Nursing Home Reacts To Hearing Music From His Era. Ase.tufts.edu/polsci/faculty/portney/studentGross.pdf. My Father Was a Polygamist - Read More on ELLE. I've been in courtrooms before, during three trials of the polygamous radicals led by the infamous Ervil LeBaron who murdered my father, Rulon Allred.
They saw him as an obstruction to LeBaron's ambition of establishing himself as "the One Mighty and Strong," who, according to early Mormon prophecy, will come to set God's house in order. One of those trials took place in the same Salt Lake City federal courthouse where I now sit. LeBaron died 30 years ago in Utah's state prison, but for the past two weeks, I've come to watch another tormentor, Brian David Mitchell, cross the courtroom in a gray cloud of piety. Mitchell keeps his eyes closed as he passes his victim, the elegant and courageous Elizabeth Smart, whom he abducted when she was 14 from the bedroom of her family's upscale Salt Lake City home in the wee hours of the morning on June 5, 2002, "married" in a ceremony witnessed only by his actual wife, Wanda Barzee, and then abused in every imaginable way. Block.opendns.com/?url=88888815707777701568807816457471701445808770165280687470859014366683707083144980887083164690143966857370831456668414661449807790726678748485328483683084707807786672307077780769807830808685&ablock&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fpaid%2Eoutbrain%2Ec.
Digital Creatives. Scott Rickard: The beautiful math behind the ugliest music. Paul Gilding: The Earth is full. Iain McGilchrist: The divided brain. Kony2012.