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Physicist Gordon Shaw dies at 72

5/1/2005, 5:45 a.m. CT The Associated Press
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LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (AP) - Gordon Shaw, the physicist whose research on classical music's effect on the brain produced an often-quoted study that showed listening to Mozart raises a person's IQ, has died. He was 72.

Shaw died of kidney cancer Tuesday at his home, according to his family. He gained national attention in 1993 when he reported that a group of college students who listened to Mozart's "Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major" saw their IQs increase substantially, if only temporarily.

The University of California at Irvine researcher never cared for the media attention his work generated, however, complaining that headlines like "Mozart's Music Makes You Smarter" oversimplified his studies.

"It is not that the Mozart will make you permanently smarter," Shaw told the Los Angeles Times in 1993. Hearing such music, he speculated, might only provide "a warmup exercise" for parts of the brain that perform high levels of abstract thinking.

Such reports on his work also led to a backlash in the academic community when other scientists reported they could not duplicate the results uncovered by Shaw.

An expert on particle physics, Shaw began studying classical music's effect on higher-level thinking after a chance reading of a 1973 paper on brain theory.

With graduate student Xiaodan Leng, he devised a computer model they used to match musical notes to brain patterns. The result was not Mozart but something that resembled Western classical music.

Shaw decided to test the results of classical music on the brain, initially studying 3-year-olds and then college students.

After three groups of college students were tested, one group was exposed to Mozart, another to a relaxation tape and the third to silence. When the students were tested again, the Mozart listeners saw their IQ levels rise as much as nine points. But the increases began to dissipate after 10 minutes.

For the rest of his career, Shaw continued to study the effect of classical music on the brain, though he distanced himself from the various commercial enterprises his research inspired.

In 1998, he co-founded the nonprofit Music Intelligence Neural Development Institute, which developed a curriculum using a computer program and piano keyboard training to improve math learning. It is now offered in 67 elementary schools.

He also published the book "Keeping Mozart in Mind."

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John Scheldroup
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I have always suspected that most materially successful people are also in some way emotionally flawed. Hope this doesn't sound like sour grapes but something drives those people to excel and to smash others to get what they want.

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Dudhorse

Well, most people are emotionally flawed, successful or not.

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That70sTick

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in life to make themselves happy & fulfilled instead

general i.e. making a ton of money.

some way emotionally flawed.

excel and to smash others to get what they want.

While Mozart and Einstein, neither of them were wealthy, and Gates is he by some measure equally as creative or intelligent as Mozart and Einstein were ?

Well anyway my news server seems to have dropped the second post, but here's the other thing, do most intelligent people whom happen to be super wealthy get all tied up working on a single problem such as that which confronts in machining/engineering to at some point require - integration for discovering a solution in SolidWorks. ?

Chances are that if your that intelligent and that wealthy would you find yourself scratching your head about these things or better wiser to delegate down the chain of command somebody else to find a solution to it ?

I think what we are both talking about is called this internal Pioneer self, which can be harder to define or explain until you actually get the ball rolling to find out for yourself what it means to do so. That which separate a chosen few from the rest of the slaves when our job is to derive a

1 piece solution fits all that goes into the bigger puzzle. Important thing is what does the puzzle picture eventually look like and who made that look that way that which is only make believe but seems real enough.

While it may take thousands of workers to cut all the pieces of the puzzle only a chosen few really know how to make them fit.

Yes that's right, what places Gates and other successful entrepreneurs into clubs with difficult to fit shoes such as Einstein and Mozart, has to be some type of inherent trait, meaning, that if you think hard enough and long enough, eventually the big picture has to be real, even so with all the problems that help to obfuscate it, there will be times which make things seem blurry but the best is yet to come. The truth of the matter is that this picture can't be anything else but the truth and that's what we are all told to believe.

A lot of people are simply there own worst enemy to, especially if like I mention there is some depression involved, this means that everything above can be great idea at the start but due to the persons hesitant nature to make clear cut decisions, things often go to ruin because others can't or won't follow your dream.

I think the keyboard of consistency here is to get over the peaks and low spots, all the while keeping the chatter to a min. and rest of the team on track don't you think ?.

Call it by any other name and we might be saying that success is based on good day dreaming, the best day dream I ever had but are we really learning how to think, like, lets see now where are all of these positives and negatives hiding in this picture so I can keep those parts hidden from others ?

John

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John Scheldroup

One could probably argue for Gates as being in the company of Rockefeller, or perhaps Nobel, but I think you'd have a hard time placing him in the company of either Einstein or Mozart.

Phenomenally successful businessman is not equivalent in any way to creative genius.

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Michael

And it makes one wonder throughout history, how much of making huge sums of money is being in the right place at the right time (tripping into profits) and how much is actually related to true management/business skills? At least with Gates, I'd guess 99% the former.

Koz

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Koz

Keep in mind he did write an operating system, then have the smarts to bully, baffle, bamboozle and bullshit his way to making his various operating systems the worlds standard, along with gutting most of his competition along the way.

If anyone had the edge at the beginning, it was Steve Job. How many Apples got put into schools in the 90s? Millions. So how come there are relatively few in use today?

Bill Gates.

Gunner

Liberals - Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own. Benjamin Disraeli

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Gunner

... no one or company benefited more from the dropping in prices of computer hardware than Bill Gates & Micro$oft. Hardware prices are a third of what they were ten years ago and the hardware does ten times as much. The only thing on a PC that has increased in cost over the years is the Windows OS. IBM continued in the hardware end of the business and has taken a real beating and has only a very small interest left in the PC market that they created in the first place. Apple was and still is a hardware company and thats why they continue to lose market share - they continue to get beatup on price by Dell and others. What is keeping Apple afloat now is the iPod which I consider an nifty but very overpriced status symbol. Wonder how long that cash cow will last?? Also wonder what will happen to Apple if Steve Jobs suddenly drops dead or decides to retire to Tahiti? I give it three years before it has to merge with something else in order to survive if in name only.

I think you can make the case that all those companies that wanted to make killing making computer hardware and thus created so much competition which eventually forced the survivors to manufacture their hardware in the Pacific Rim countries that pay their workers a dollar an hour, its those businessmen that actually made Bill Gates a multi-billionaire many times over! If it wasn't for them he would be just your average garden variety multi-billionaire.

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Dudhorse

Bill Gates had two things going for him, no three:

  1. His dad was a lawyer and some of that rubbed off on Bill.
  2. He was a programmer in the right place at the right time.
  3. He had friends to help that were smarter than he was.

And, oh yeah, he worked his butt off to meet commitments.

Microsoft's real strength is in the EULA, a melding of legaleze, allowances for unfinished programming and an avoidance of responsibility that no other industry enjoys.

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TOP

If Michael meant DOS, he didn't. He stole that from Digital Research's CP/M. Minor modifications was all he did to the original. I could recognize much of the code in the BIOS, line-for-line.

If he meant Windows -- well, he had the system written in-house, but he ripped that methodology off from Mac... so...

LLoyd

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Lloyd E. Sponenburgh

Who, in turn, ripped it off from Xerox (the 8010 Star and the Alto) to make the Lisa which beget the Mac..

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

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Spehro Pefhany

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