This is Your Brain on Jazz
What do you get when you cross a science nerd with a jazz saxophonist? Apparently, a researcher with enough curiosity, talent and intelligence to actually video, in real time, the brain functions of people at their most creative.
A friend of mine recently pointed me to the story of Charles J. Limb, M.D., a researcher and jazz musician at Johns Hopkins University.
Using advanced MRI scans, Limb and his pals have recently taken some pretty cool pictures of the human brain during intense periods of creativity. Their mission: To measure the difference between a brain in a normal state and one rocking out during a jam session.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
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Me: (filling the dishwasher) Take your vitamins.
Nora: Yes dad. (mumbles singsong nonsense but makes no move toward vitamins–of course I don’t notice this because it takes everything I’ve got to [...]
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