So You Think You Can Dance?: PET Scans Reveal Your Brain's Inner Choreography

To explore that question, we conducted the first neuroimaging study of dance movement, in conjunction with our colleague Michael J. Martinez of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, using amateur tango dancers as subjects. We scanned the brains of five men and five women using positron-emission tomography,

clipped from www.sciam.com Recent brain-imaging studies reveal some of the complex neural choreography behind our ability to dance Dance is a fundamental form of human expression that likely evolved together with music as a way of generating rhythm. It requires specialized mental skills. One brain area houses a representation of the body’s orientation, helping to direct our movements through space; another serves as a synchronizer of sorts, enabling us to pace our actions to music. So natural is our capacity for rhythm that most of us take it for granted: when we hear music, we tap our feet to the beat or rock and sway, often unaware that we are even moving. But this instinct is, for all intents and purposes, an evolutionary novelty among humans. Nothing comparable occurs in other mammals nor probably elsewhere in the animal kingdom. using amateur tango dancers as subjects. We scanned the brains of five men and five women using positron-emission tomography,

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A wiki for audio related issues

clipped from www.readwriteweb.com WikiAudio - A Premier Audio Wiki We weren't kidding when we said Wikis are now serious business. For music, WikiAudio is providing a new way to educated music fanatics. While music fans visit sites like Last.fm, Imeem, and Myspace for their music fix, musicians and producers can head over to one of the largest and most comprehensive audio wiki's ever. WikiAudio does a great job of combining both social networking and "Wiki" landscapes to create a hybrid that incorporates articles, videos, audio files, tutorials, user profiles, forums, blogs, RSS feeds, and more. Producers, musicians, and music majors will find WikiAudio to be a candy store full of free and useful sweets. There are plenty of tutorials available and veterans of audio production are encourage to help the beginners of the site by creating tutorials of their personal productions and techniques.

Lost Treasures of Tibet" watch online 3 hour-long program !!!

1
Sacred 500-year-old paintings are crumbling off the walls of a Buddhist monastery, and a Tibetan monk sets off on a pilgrimage to see them.
2 Journey to Lo Monthang
On his way to the monasteries of Lo Monthang, Lama Guru Gyaltsen encounters a hidden cave where deities are said to emanate from the walls.
running time 7:04
3 Restoring a Temple's Glory
British architect John Sanday and art conservator Rodolfo Lujan from Rome contemplate how to resurrect a temple and its murals.
running time 7:28
4 Traces of the Masters
An infrared camera detects the original drawings under the painted murals, revealing the intentions of the master artists.
running time 7:31
5 The King's Approval
The King of Mustang arrives to pass judgment on the work of the conservators.
running time 5:27
6 An Uncertain Future
Mustang's holy temples may still be in peril as the kingdom makes way for roads and automobiles.
running time 4:59

clipped from www.pbs.org Tour Mustang Journey through this hidden Tibetan kingdom in northwest Nepal. Creating a Wall Painting  Conservation experts and local people revive Mustang's age-old artistic traditions. Before and After Watch as centuries of grime are removed from nine stunning paintings in Lo Monthang's Thubchen monastery. Deciphering Buddha Imagery  What you need to know to recognize an image of Buddha. The hour-long program is available to view online here. TV Program Description NOVA News Minute Watch a news clip related to NOVA's "Lost Treasures of Tibet" program. Links & Books Teacher's Guide Program Transcript Buy the Video Credits Don't miss upcoming NOVA broadcasts and companion Web sites—subscribe to our e-mail bulletin.

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6 Degrees of Wikipedia

clipped from chronicle.com 6 Degrees of Wikipedia A researcher at Trinity College Dublin has software that lets users map the links between Wikipedia pages. His Web site is called “Six Degrees of Wikipedia,” modeled after the trivia game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.” Instead of the degrees being measured by presence in the same film, degrees are determined by articles that link to each other. Stephen Dolan, the researcher who created the software, has also used the code to determine which Wikipedia article is the “center” of Wikipedia—that is, which article is the hub that most other articles must go through in the “Six Degrees” game. Not including the articles that are just lists (e.g., years), the article closest to the center is “United Kingdom,” at an average of 3.67 clicks to any other article. “Billie Jean King” and “United States” follow, with an average of 3.68 clicks and 3.69 clicks, respectively. More detailed information can be found on Mr. Dolan’s Web site.—Catherine Rampell

Top Sixty Music Websites

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clipped from www.webupon.com Music Rules 2: Top 60 Music Websites That Deliver the Greatest Free Music Delivering the best of the best free music on the Internet is what these Top 60 Music websites are best known for and now, they are presented to music lovers the world over as an easy reference guide to bookmark. After careful research and reading thousands of comments, blogs and forum entries these free music websites were the most talked about on the Internet. Each website was visited and reviewed to make sure that they were actual websites with working website addresses. The order that the free music websites appear in is the order that has received the most hype from Internet chatter that has been collected during the research sessions. This way the actual order of the top music sites appear in has been predetermined by thousand of users across hundreds of chat platforms.