Jazz Improvisation Changes Brain Functions

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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

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“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?

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Charlie the Unicorn

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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?

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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?

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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.

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