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...quick answer to see what the end point would be like,” said Winner. “If we found no result then the longitudinal study would have no purpose.” Since the smaller study only tested a cross section of the age range—only those who are the oldest—its purpose was to pin point the specific skills which might be enhanced by musical training, Schlaug said. The longitudinal study examines whether playing a musical instrument enhances children’s abilities or simply serves as an indicator of natural talent...
...flying cars are coming, what’s taking so long? In the book “Where’s My Jetpack?” published last spring, roboticist Daniel H. Wilson demands, “The time has come to hold the golden age of science fiction accountable for its fantastic promises.” Wilson’s tongue-in-cheek remark sums up the unspoken feelings of a generation of Americans who were told they would ride a jetpack to work, eat a whole meal in a pill, and vacation on the moon by the year...
...mystic. In the years since, Chopra has steadily enlarged his reputation from that of healer to philosopher-at-large. East and West, mind and body, science and spirit: Chopra's smiling, ever more confident face has become an icon of the hope that the world is entering a new age of synthesis and understanding where all such rifts will become mere memories...
...Ptolemy Tompkins' recent books include The Beaten Path: Field Notes on Getting Wise in a Wisdom-Crazy World and Paradise Fever: Growing Up in the Shadow of the New Age...
Gale Perkins, another tuberculosis survivor featured in the film, spent 12 years in a hospital, from the age of three...