An introduction to different types of theater layouts. Proscenium, alley, thrust, in the round and environmental.
Jazz Improvisation Changes Brain Functions
 
Here’s something I never thought of: Put a jazz piano player in a brain scan tube with a plastic keyboard and compare his bran scans when he plays pre-determined music and when he improvises freely to a track.
That’s exactly what Dr. Charles Limb and Dr. Allen Braun at the National Institutes of Health did. And their findings are…..brain tickling.
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Albert Einstein on Religion and Science
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
– Albert Einstein
This oft used quote of Einstein usually stands by itself, out of context from his full text. So here is the full text that quote comes from as well as three other writings by Albert Einstein on science and religion.
In “The God Delusion” book by Richard Dawkins he asserts that Albert Einstein was an atheist. I have been round and round reading about this on forums. Albert Einstein himself very clearly said he did not believe in a “personal God”, he also said that he did not like atheists claiming he supported them. So where did Einstein stand on his beliefs?
Marilyn Manson Interview with Bill O’Reilly
httpv://youtube.com/watch?v=G6n5Oi4714o
Marilyn Manson interviewed by Bill O’Reilly. I had never seen Marilyn Manson in an interview before. Thought it was interesting.
Charlie the Unicorn
 httpv://youtube.com/watch?v=Q5im0Ssyyus
Yes, it’s back AGAIN. My all time favorite YouTube.com video. I used to not have any friends. Then I watched this video. Now I have lots of them. You should watch it too.
Do Lemmings Commit Suicide?
Quite a fiesty debate amongst the musicians this morning on whether Lemmings commit suicide or not. I said no, that the general public only thought they did because of a Disney fiasco. Someone else who lives by lemmings said yes they do. Someone else said I shouldn’t disagree with someone who lives near lemmings because they would know best.
So thanks to my friend Google, here’s the ultimate information page to answer the big question: DO LEMMINGS COMMIT SUICIDE?
Maximum DNS TTL
A sample DNS (Domain Name Server) setting for TTL (Time to Live) might be 86400. TTL settings are entered as seconds and the max TTL time could be entered as one day like this: 60x60x24 = 86400.
Music Joke for Theory Geeks
This has got to be the most exhausting music joke I have ever heard…
How to Embed YouTube.com Videos in WordPress
Find out how to type just ONE LETTER and get your favorite YouTube videos embedded into your WordPress blog. And no, you don’t even have to turn off the rich text editing feature (who wants to do that anyway?).
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