Okay, so this post touches on several things I’m deeply interested in.
1.) If you want to extricate a song from your head, listening to the last 15 seconds or so can help. It’s thought that the loop is your brain wanting to end the song g but can’t precisely remember how, so hearing it will end it for you.
2.) He is right, it is the best Madonna song. Also, it was co-written by Hoosier phenom, Babyface!
3.) Your stand mixer is leaking oil because the model you have is not rated for bagel dough. I have this knowledge from experience. Repeated strain may have cracked a seal. Mine smells like it’s about to catch fire if I use it for that purpose.
4.) Math and Music are wonderfully similar, and both can be passed genetically. Check out Bach’s formulas. He used a lot of different methods to do it, but his music is FULL of his own name, converted to numbers, then converted to notes. It’s fascinating!
5.) There’s a whole bunch of science suggesting that certain forms of math (geometry in particular) which are genetically intuitive to humans, possibly to help identify food, predators, safe shelter, etc. Brain scans show that being shown a number on a screen (no equations, just a numeral) lights up non-linguistic processing centers. And some people on the more interesting parts of the mental spectrums do this very very intensely. They’re still processing the equations, it’s just happening at a deeper level and *much* faster. It’s like being asked a question and the answer comes to you before the sentence is finished.
What a delight this is. And I loved the kittens essay. If there is a hell (probably not) and I go there ( probably not) I will divide my time between grading and writing syllabi for all eternity.
Lovely sentence this: "[Music can] Create collective effervescence."
Okay, so this post touches on several things I’m deeply interested in.
1.) If you want to extricate a song from your head, listening to the last 15 seconds or so can help. It’s thought that the loop is your brain wanting to end the song g but can’t precisely remember how, so hearing it will end it for you.
2.) He is right, it is the best Madonna song. Also, it was co-written by Hoosier phenom, Babyface!
3.) Your stand mixer is leaking oil because the model you have is not rated for bagel dough. I have this knowledge from experience. Repeated strain may have cracked a seal. Mine smells like it’s about to catch fire if I use it for that purpose.
4.) Math and Music are wonderfully similar, and both can be passed genetically. Check out Bach’s formulas. He used a lot of different methods to do it, but his music is FULL of his own name, converted to numbers, then converted to notes. It’s fascinating!
5.) There’s a whole bunch of science suggesting that certain forms of math (geometry in particular) which are genetically intuitive to humans, possibly to help identify food, predators, safe shelter, etc. Brain scans show that being shown a number on a screen (no equations, just a numeral) lights up non-linguistic processing centers. And some people on the more interesting parts of the mental spectrums do this very very intensely. They’re still processing the equations, it’s just happening at a deeper level and *much* faster. It’s like being asked a question and the answer comes to you before the sentence is finished.
Thanks for all the thoughts this morning!
What a delight this is. And I loved the kittens essay. If there is a hell (probably not) and I go there ( probably not) I will divide my time between grading and writing syllabi for all eternity.