Richard Gross, a geophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California says that the earthquake in Chile on Feb. 27 probably shifted the Earth’s axis and shortened the day, 1.26 microseconds
There is a million microseconds in a second. So you lost more time reading about this than you did because of the shorter days.

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Is a bit afraid of large red exercise balls

Here's an article where a Northwestern University neuroscientist links music to everyday listening task enhancement

By Wendy Leopold

EVANSTON, Ill. --- At a Feb. 20 press briefing at the American
Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) annual meeting, a
Northwestern University neuroscientist argued that music training has
profound effects that shape the sensory system and should be a
mainstay of K-12 education.

“Playing an instrument may help youngsters better process speech in
noisy classrooms and more accurately interpret the nuances of language
that are conveyed by subtle changes in the human voice,” says Nina
Kraus, Hugh Knowles Professor of Neurobiology, Physiology and
Communication Sciences at Northwestern University.

“Cash-strapped school districts are making a mistake when they cut
music from the K-12 curriculum,” says Kraus, director of the Auditory
Neuroscience Laboratory in Northwestern’s School of Communication.

http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2010/02/kraus.html

Wendy Leopold is the education editor. Contact her at
w-leopold@northwestern.edu

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