it doesn’t hurt reblogging one simple post about GOD,for he gave his life for us .
A scientist learns not to be afraid of the things he does not understand.
– Dr. Bloch, “It Crawled Out of the Woodwork” The Outer Limits (1963) Via strangers come and violate youLight travels faster than sound—isn’t that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak?
– Steven Wright (via vitallinks) Via Vital LinksIf listening to your favorite song feels as satisfying as a good meal or a romp in the hay, that’s because it probably is.
According to a study published in January by neuroscientist Valorie Salimpoor at the Montreal Neurological Institute, music can activate the same reward circuits in the brain as food and sex.
He [Hudson] proposed that one key difference might be found through lossless compression, which exploits repetition and redundancies in music to encode audio data in fewer bits without losing content. When Hudson compared contemporary hits and enduring classics that had been compressed, he found that pop, rock, and techno boiled down to 60 or 70 percent of their original size, while classics such as Beethoven’s Third Symphony shrank much further, to just 40 percent. He suspects that great works’ appeal may stem from a hidden simplicity: “They seem complicated but can be distilled to surprisingly basic terms.” Composers who want to make their mark might do well to create a piece that sounds complex but is actually built on a foundation of simple patterns.
When participants listened to their songs of choice while in a PET scanner, listeners experienced a rush of dopamine near the frontal striatum, a brain region associated with anticipating rewards, followed by a flood of dopamine in the rear striatum, the brain’s pleasure center just before feeling enjoyable chills in response to the music. This is like craving the next note, which the researchers say could be why music lovers come back for more.
