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This week it’s all about Jesper, the Zemeni sharpshooter in #SixOfCrows by lbardugo. He’s always lightening the mood with a joke or two. He thrives in high risk situations, but may love being reckless a little too much. He’s got style, and isn’t afraid to whip out those pearl revolvers slung around his hips. Look for him in Six Of Crows, out September 29th!
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One of the most unique shawls/scarves’ patterns I’ve seen. Sign up is free and easy at Ravelry. You get access to free and pay patterns, ratings of patterns, forum posts, comments and you can see what others have knit with the patterns you are interested in.
Suitable for adventurous beginners, techniques include: simple short rows, picking up stitches, simple increases and decreases.
So I got a speeding ticket, went online to pay it, looked up my name… and it wasn’t coming up. So I tried just my last name, thinking it would work and…
link is a highly versatile adventurer who wears light armour and consistently plays an instrument and usually has access to magic items and occasionally some spells
link is a bard
this makes him one of only a handful of bards with the ability to shut the fuck up
How do you get to Carnegie Hall? New research on the brain’s capacity
to learn suggests there’s more to it than the adage that “practise
makes perfect.” A music-training study by scientists at the Montreal
Neurological Institute and Hospital -The Neuro, at McGill University and
colleagues in Germany found evidence to distinguish the parts of the
brain that account for individual talent from the parts that are
activated through training.
The research involved brain imaging studies of 15 young adults with
little or no musical background who were scanned before and after they
underwent six weeks of musical training. Participants were required to
learn simple piano pieces. Brain activity in certain areas changed after
learning, indicating the effect of training. But the activity in a
different set of brain structures, measured before the training session
had started, predicted which test subjects would learn quickly or
slowly.
“Predisposition plays an important role for auditory-motor learning
that can be clearly distinguished from training-induced plasticity,”
says Dr. Robert Zatorre, a cognitive neuroscientist at The Neuro who
co-directs Montreal’s International Laboratory for Brain, Music and
Sound Research (BRAMS) and is lead author of the study in Cerebral
Cortex. “Our findings pertain to the debate about the relative influence
of ‘nature or nurture,’ but also have potential practical relevance for
medicine and education.”
The research could help to create custom-made interventions for
students and for neurological patients based on their predisposition and
needs.
Future cognitive neuroscience studies will explore the extent to
which individual differences in predisposition are a result of brain
plasticity due to previous experiences and to people’s genetics.
I’m sorry but if education turns into “we must scan your kid’s brain to determine their best life course,” then I’m homeschooling and moving away from civilization. While the science is fascinating and worth applauding, I’m always going to think the human mind is too complex to believe it’s possible to predict a person’s abilities.
