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• A comment on Talk: Joe Smith: How to use a paper towel

  Apr 28 2012: Can`t wait for next year! :D

• A reply on Conversation: The explanation of why all people "feel" the pentatonic scale

  Feb 2 2012: Forgot to mention, most of todays(if not all of) popular music is written in diatonic scale. That is an "ordinary" major or minor scale.
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  A reply on Conversation: The explanation of why all people "feel" the pentatonic scale

  Feb 2 2012: Music written in pentatonic scale naturally soothes us, because the harmonic series is a natural thing, obviously has sth to do with the very essence of all around us. We are a part of this universe, so that is a very logical answer I think.
  
  However, try viewing music from a different perspective. You could judge music according to music theory (meaning that could show you some facts about it),but that is completely senseless,art in general cannot be "measured". How one experiences music is subjective, and I don`t believe anyone should tell anybody how "good" a certain piece of music is.
  
  You can only learn LISTENING, really listening to music,and learn about playing and instrument etc.
  Through open mind and a will to learn you will most certainly get to know more beautiful music.
  
  This is a jaw dropping TED video about listening to music: https://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/evelyn_glennie_shows_how_to_listen.html
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  A reply on Conversation: The explanation of why all people "feel" the pentatonic scale

  Feb 1 2012: Enjoy it! :)
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  A comment on Talk: Elizabeth Gilbert: Your elusive creative genius

  Dec 16 2011: Ole!
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  A comment on Conversation: An emphasis on technology actually reduces the amount of learning.

  Oct 29 2011: Here`s a story of my experience on using technology in learning. I`m a student, first year of college (electrical and information engineering). We use Power Point presentations on most of our classes, and we also used it on some classes while I was still in high school. ALL of my classmates find them NOT helpful. PP is maybe great for professors because they save time not writing on blackboard, but it surely isn`t for us students. Using PP in learning on a regular basis results in NOT going into depth. Especially in eg. physics, math, logics - where one has to practice resolving problems. The best way to do that is firstly to observe your professor resolving eg. a math problem, then trying it for yourself, hundreds of times. Proven a million times.