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Author: Bob Arney
Date: 2002-06-17 21:00
To show you how this works, go to the url site listed above. Call it up. You will find the interesting article from a British publication. Look on the left hand column and find the listing under UK of "Crime." Click on it. Then look down the list of articles until you come to the one concerning exploding cell-phones on command.Read this. Now put your more "sensitive brains" to work.Think of all the wonderful possibilities this miracle plastic/chip has.
1. Install one in a plastic student level clarinet with instructions to explode when certain out of tune conditions are present:(Your choice of options).
2. Being "Professionals" you will undoubtedly find many better uses than this poor beginner thought of. Expand the thread. Enjoy.
Bob A
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Author: Dr. Jacob Mathias UNB
Date: 2002-06-18 01:20
Don't believe everything you read.
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Author: Dr. Jacob Mathias
Date: 2002-06-19 16:22
As an ontolaryrinologist I have no doubt the implicit need to explain away certain tendencies I believe we all possess. The study above shows two positively disdainful things: 1) No quote on source material stated and, when the study under what conditions was done, and 2)an inept lack of understanding of the meaning of verifying data by also doing analysis of the brain in a phony control group as well....as an ears nose and throat man such shoddy writing without a listing of source material would be considered circumspect null and void. But it makes for hopeful reading for such unmusical lot as myself.....
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-06-19 16:28
Well, it <b>was</b> a newspaper report, not something published in <i>Nature</i> (at least not yet), so we don't really know anything about the realities of the study. There may have been a control group, but unfortunately just because someone writes for the Science section of a newspaper doesn't mean they're qualified to write for the Science section ...
Unfortunately I'm now seeing that in the new, revised, (dumbed-down for the last 6 or 7 years) <i>Scientific American</i> biographical sketches.
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Author: HAT
Date: 2002-06-19 16:59
My experience as a professional musician suggests that there may be something to this. Musicians are, as a group, consistently intelligent people (at least instrumental musicians in both classical and jazz).
David Hattner, NYC
www.northbranchrecords.com
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Author: Dr. Jacob Mathias
Date: 2002-06-19 18:30
I am in complete accord with the above two statements. In my former line of work as well I began to conclude quite early on in my career that no two people are alike, and, soon found much to my disdain that I was working 60 hours a week. Mr. Charette deserves an accolade for the statement of "dumbing down", and this has been happening in medicine for a good long time. I will certainly agree that musicians are keenly intelligent, or ealse I would have become one! I also cancelled about 2 years ago my subsciption to the sceintific american , and because the fact that it lost alot of content that I used to enjoy. I have also been in charge of various studies scietifically regarding inner ear research, and, found most musicians tend to lose quite a bit of hearing. Of course maybe this article above does have sources and we will get to the bottom. Until then, I will wait hoping I am part of that group! There is always hope alas!
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Author: DLE
Date: 2002-06-25 22:52
BUT, intelligence isn't everything. I know a lot of musicians who I can talk with for days non-stop about the history of music or the art of performance, but have absolutely no clue as to the social aspects and stereotypes of society, not to mention COMMON SENSE.
(I count myself among that list)
Anyway, 'grey matter' - don't remember that in my Biology class years ago. What are they reffering to?
DLE.
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Author: Todd W.
Date: 2002-06-25 23:55
DLE --
Welcome back (from wherever); I see your posts popping up at the end of a number of threads today.
Grey matter = gray (spelling variant) matter = "The brownish-gray nerve tissue of the brain and spinal cord, consisting principally of nerve cells and fibers." -- Webster's II New Riverside Dictionary, revised ed.
Or, as Hercule Poirot says: (insert Belgian accent here) "The little grey cells."
Todd W.
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