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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