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Reading an article "The #1 Sound Your Brain Desperately Wants to Hear".
The article basically says it turns out the “Mozart effect” truly exists, and you don’t have to be a musician to reap the benefits.
Take dementia patients, for example.
Professional violinist Ayako Yonetani told The Epoch Times that when she performs for people with dementia,
something remarkable happens: they often become more alert, are visibly moved by the music, and at times
experience moments of clarity with their families again.
In one particular case, a gray-haired older woman, whose cognition was degraded to sitting motionless with
her gaze lowered, suddenly had “her eyes brightened” as she tried to follow along with Yonetani’s performance.
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The article basically says it turns out the “Mozart effect” truly exists, and you don’t have to be a musician to reap the benefits.
Take dementia patients, for example.
Professional violinist Ayako Yonetani told The Epoch Times that when she performs for people with dementia,
something remarkable happens: they often become more alert, are visibly moved by the music, and at times
experience moments of clarity with their families again.
In one particular case, a gray-haired older woman, whose cognition was degraded to sitting motionless with
her gaze lowered, suddenly had “her eyes brightened” as she tried to follow along with Yonetani’s performance.
Read More
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Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer. The book is the fourth in a series called The Southern Reach or Area X. (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance are the first three). The books fall into a genre called Cosmic Horror. Some kind of event has taken place on the Southern Coast of the US, and it may be of extraterrestrial origin, however, there are no aliens. The fourth book explores the events prior to the appearance of Area X as well as the disastrous First Expedition into Area X.
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Just about finished with Absolution by Jeff Vander Meer. I plan on reading several sci fi books by Stanislaw Lem. The books are Fiasco, Solaris, and The Invincible. Lem was Polish but he was born in Lviv, Ukraine (USSR) in 1921. He passed away in 2006. The books I plan to read take a philosophical look at potential "first contact" of Humans and aliens and how we likely won't even be able to relate to an alien intelligence and they likely will find us as incomprehensible. Lem's story, His Master's Voice, tells how scientists try to comprehend what they think is a message from an intelligent alien civilization and they fail to do so. I find I tend agree with Stanislaw Lem on the concepts of Humans dealing intelligent aliens (if they even exist). Although I enjoyed Cixin Liu's trilogy Remembrance of Earth's Past (AKA Three Body Problem) I am not completely convinced of the Dark Forest answer to the Fermi Paradox. I also do not agree with the more positive views of first contact Carl Sagan wrote about in his book Contact or Ted Chiang's Story of Your Life (film title Arrival).
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