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...these reasons, it is unsurprising to find statistical evidence that men and women reason differently. While men excel at spatial tasks and mathematical reasoning, women tend to perform better on tests of perceptual speed and mathematical calculations. This is not to say one gender is smarter than another—or that one can accurately predict the behavior or ability of individuals—but rather that sex differences correlate with differences in the means of the respective populations...
Nevertheless, biology is not destiny. Women are not doomed to a life of inadequate spatial reasoning skills as a function of the existence of their second X chromosome; similarly, men can learn to ask for directions, despite their competitive drive and instinctive compulsion to appear invulnerable. The truth of the “inherent” differences between men and women is that they are subtle and by no means universal. Because of the immense overlap of ability between men and women, variations between the human genders are more a matter of degree than kind...
...disputed - recent claim is that Mozart can enhance your brain power. That notion was first given scientific support in a 1993 article in Nature, which found that college students who listened to the first movement of Mozart's Sonata in D Major for Two Pianos performed better on a spatial reasoning test that involved mentally unfolding a piece of paper. The study's main author, Frances Rauscher, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin who is also a cellist, went on to do a similar test using laboratory rats. They were exposed to the same piano sonata in utero...
...least somebody managed to make money out of it," she says. But she bristles at the way her findings are misrepresented. "Nobody ever said listening to Mozart makes you smarter," she complains, pointing out that her research showed only a temporary and limited improvement in the student's spatial reasoning, rather than a sustained and general increase in IQ. Today, she's even revising her own initial conclusions in the light of subsequent research by others, working on a book tentatively titled Music and the Mind Beyond the Mozart Effect. Listening to Mozart, she now reckons...
...Wrestling with the challenge of creating a big enough space amid spatial and monetary restrictions, Endoh struck on the idea of using a balloon shape for the building. The result: a surprisingly spacious two-family house with just 335 sq. ft. of floor space...