Thanks to the good people at the World Science Festival for posting this fantastic talk by Bobby McFerrin, demonstrating the power of the human brain to instinctively grasp the pentatonic scale.
About This Video: From WSFtv:
We don’t know much about the human brain on music. Do people instinctively know the sound patterns of the pentatonic scale? [...]
When it comes to heeding your spirit’s call, you can listen and move slowly and gracefully towards it, or you can bury it down deep and hope it’ll give way to some other thing. In the case of many creative minds, we often hope that gut calling will yield something society labels more “practical” or [...]
I’ve been working on this post awhile, not able, it seems to get it totally “right.” But in the spirit of moving through my need to get it right and be content with “OK,” I’m going to wrap it up and hit publish today. So here goes, with all my love heading into 2011.
Everyone has [...]
“Many brilliant people think they’re not, because they’ve been judged by a model that marginalizes non-academic thinking,” says Sir Ken Robinson in another of his compelling lectures on how and why today’s education system is flat-lining kids’ creative instincts and drive.
If you want more Sir Ken Robinson - and I highly recommend it - grab [...]
I’ve been thinking lately about living more heartfully. More “from the heart” as opposed to from the intellect, which for me is so often a stadium of disparaging voices trying to talk me into some more logical ways of living and learning and creating.
I know that when you live from the heart, or your core, [...]