Melissa Locker @woolyknickers Dec. 16, 2014 Actively learning to play an instrument can help a child’s academic achievement. There’s little doubt that learning to play a musical instrument is great for developing brains. Science has shown that when children learn to play music, their brains begin to hear and process sounds that they couldn’t otherwise hear. This helps them develop “neurophysiological distinction” between certain sounds that can aid […]
A seminal article on advances in our understanding of playing music and the developing brain: View Original Remember “Mozart Makes You Smarter”? A 1993 study of college students showed them performing better on spatial reasoning tests after listening to a Mozart sonata. That led to claims that listening to Mozart temporarily increases IQs — and to a raft of products purporting to provide all sorts of benefits to […]
By Christopher Bergland, www.psychologytoday.com View Original November 13th, 2013 Neuroscientists are discovering multiple ways that musical training improves the function and connectivity of different brain regions. Musical training increases brain volume and strengthens communication between brain areas. Playing an instrument changes how the brain interprets and integrates a wide range of sensory information, especially for those who start before age 7. These findings were presented at the […]
Benghazi is still a live issue in American politics:
…the law is not at any time completed but is always being modified in the process of judicial decision. Not only is the common law what the judges have made it but this is also largely the case with our statutory law, of which constitutional law is a special instance. (p. 81) The law …is a self correcting system. (p. 82) The end of law, the administration of […]
Bassem Eid was born in the Jordanian-occupied Old City in East Jerusalem, whose place of residence became the United Nations Refugee Works Agency (UNRWA) refugee camp of Shuafat. Bassem Eid spent the first 33 years of his life in Shuafat. He rose to prominence during the first Intifada, the Palestinian uprising, as was a senior field researcher for B’Tselem,[1][2] the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the […]
First Publish: 1/18/2004, 3:46 PM / Last Update: 1/18/2004, 5:32 PM The spiritual leader of the Druze community in Israel, Sheikh Mowafak Tarif, this weekend signed a declaration calling on non-Jews in Israel to observe the Seven Noahide (Bnei Noach) Commandments, as laid down in the Bible and expounded upon in Jewish tradition. Several weeks ago, the mayor of the primarily Druze city of Shfaram, in the Galilee, […]
Retired USAF Lt. General Thomas McInerney speak of Benghazi as a Constitutional Crisis:
DR. Barry Schwartz speaks on Choice and Freedom in the modern world of Technology:
Important panel discussion with former Michigan Congressman, Peter Huekstra, Daniel Greenfield, Daniel Pipes, and Dr. Bruce Thornton. Bruce S. Thornton (born August 2, 1953) is an American classicist at California State University, Fresno, and research fellow at Stanford University‘s Hoover Institution.[1] (speaks 40 minutes into the video)