--- Reggie Bautista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Debbi wrote: > >I thought this was fun: > > > > > NASA Science News for September 4, 2003 > > > A surprising number of astronauts are also > > > musicians--and they love to play in space. > >http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/04sep_music.htm?list818490 > > That isn't so surprising, really. I read somewhere > that all of the > astronauts > up through the end of the Apollo program, every > single one of them, took > elective music classes in college. Music helps > develop spatial reasoning, > which I imagine would be particularly useful to > pilots and engineers, and > there are many other cognitive benefits to learning > music as well. I'll see > if I can either pull up an old rant of mine on this > topic, or maybe pull > together some links, if anyone is interested.
Vote one for aye! (and does anyone have a link to 'pirate speak,' as I'm going to a Pirate Party this weekend? All I know is "arrrgh!" and "ahoy matey" and "avast ye bilge rat!"...) > It has been a while, but I > was up on most of the latest research as of four or > five years ago. (I > just realized I've been saying that a lot lately. I > got married four years > ago... Hmm, I wonder if there is any connection :-) <snip> I'm not gonna touch that one... ;} Debbi Whaddaya Mean No Horses On Board!? Maru __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
