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Physicians who listen to Mozart while performing a colonoscopy may increase their detection rates of precancerous polyps. This is pretty amazing and we have a question: would the detection rate get better–or worse–with rock or rap?

In this randomized controlled trial, two endoscopists, each with experience completing at least 1,000 colonoscopies, performed screening colonoscopies randomly assigned to listen to Mozart or to no music. Researcher Noelle O’Shea says, "Both endoscopists had higher adenoma detection rates listening to music. Anything we can do get those rates up has the potential to save lives."
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This is the season for classical music! Listening to Mozart may (or may not) increase your intelligence, but one thing we know for sure: Playing that lovely music in the fields helps bananas to grow and Japan (where beautiful fruits and vegetables command high prices) is taking advantage of this fact.
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Looking at a person’s brain while they are listening to music can yield valuable insights into how the mind works. However, music theorist Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis claims the idea that listening to Mozart boosts brainpower is NOT TRUE.

Margulis says, "Studies about music move into the popular media and can get mistranslated, transmitting potentially misleading information." She points to the popularity of the "Mozart effect"–the research that showed improved spatial reasoning after listening to Mozart–as an example of unintentional distortion of scientific research about music.
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12 year old Jay Greenberg is believed by his teachers at NewYork’s famed Julliard School of Music to be the greatestmusical prodigy in 200 years, the equal of Mozart, who isbelieved to be the greatest musical prodigy of all time.

Composer Sam Zyman says that Jay, who prefers the nickname’Bluejay’ because he identifies with the noisy birds, cancompose a piano sonata in 25 minutes that will be one of thegreatest such compositions ever written.

Jay says that the music appears fully written in his mind,and he simply transcribes it. He has no idea where the musicis coming from.
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