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...brain science since then, particularly in magnetic resonance imaging scans, mean that neurologists can now actually see what happens when we hear or even compose music. Scans show that, neurally, the experience of imagining music is much the same as listening to it. Also, that the corpus callosum, the mass of nerve fibers that wire the two hemispheres of the brain together, is enlarged in professional musicians. "Anatomists today would be hard put to identify the brain of a visual artist, a writer or a mathematician," Sacks writes, "but they could recognize the brain of a professional musician without...
...Another Inconvenient Truth As a grandson of survivors of the Armenian genocide, I was intrigued to read Samantha Power's compelling Commentary "Honesty Is the Best Policy" [Oct. 29]. I've been alarmed by congressional opposition to the resolution to hold Turkey responsible for the mass killing of Armenians during the last days of the Ottoman Empire. Political expediency should play no role in this debate; the facts overwhelmingly support what many in the world recognize as the 20th century's first genocide. Denial only perpetuates the suffering of the families affected by this horrific tragedy and discredits...
...art”. The self-described weaver, bookmaker, journal-keeper, poet, doodler, dancer, and teacher doesn’t have a cell phone or e-mail address, but FM was able to catch up with the multi-talented guru—but only after he attended to a mass of adoring fans, the last of which presented Berensohn with an apple in thanks. Clad in a flowing white outfit and sporting a snowy ponytail (but no shoes), Berensohn was finally free to enlighten...
...Conway, one of several Canadians on the team, helped her Toronto-based team to a league title in 2007. DEPTH AT ‘D’Coskren and Stephens are only picking up where they left off. Both 2007 graduates of Noble and Greenough School in nearby Dedham, Mass., are looking to translate the defensive skills that they honed together in high school to the Harvard blue line.Coskren—a quick, adept defender whose two older brothers currently play on the men’s hockey team—should slide right into the defensive rotation with...
...objects that form when massive stars collapse at the end of their lives. They are so dense that nothing, not even light, can escape from them. “It’s really hard for a single star to make a black hole of more than 20 solar masses,” Prestwich said. “My best guess is that this guy really is more massive than 20 solar masses. And that’s why he’s interesting,” she added. Conventional theory says that black holes formed by collapsing stars cannot...