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november 2015 issue #034
Kate
mwjeditor@mensa.org
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139,880,000
What does this number
mean? I will explain a little
later.
Firstly, many thanks for reelecting me for a second term
as Treasurer I am happy to
further improve the financial
development and transparency
by regular reports to you.
So, 139,880,000 ?
Rudi Challupner
treasurer-mil@mensa.org
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Rhythms, or patterns of sound and silence in time,may play a vital role in both
speech and music. However, not knowing
how rhythm skills relate to each other has
limited researchers understanding of how
language relies on rhythm processing. In
particular, it is unknown whether all
rhythm skills are linked together, forming a single broad rhythmic competence,
or whether there are multiple separate
rhythm skills. Using a battery of twobeat tapping and two-rhythm memory
tests, the authors of this study recruited
over 60 teenage participants to investigate whether beat tapping and rhythm
memory/sequencing form two separate
clusters of rhythm skills.
The researchers found that tapping to
a metronome and the ability to adjust
to a changing tempo while tapping to a
metronome seem to be related skills. The
ability to remember rhythms and to drum
along to repeating rhythmic sequences
may also be related. However, the authors
found no relationship between beat tapping skills and rhythm memory skills, and
they suggest that these may actually be
separate skills. The authors also hope that
this discovery will inform future research
disambiguating how distinct rhythm
competencies track with specific language
functions.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/
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good cheer.
In the article Sexual Selection
and Humour in Courtship: A Case
for Warmth and Extroversion, which
was published online last month in
the journal Evolutionary Psychology,
Hall discusses three studies he per-
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Science Daily
European Mensa
Annual Gathering
(EMAG) 2016 will be
held in
Krakw, Poland, from
10 - 14 August
Time to start planning...
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supplementally
Great Pyramid
AERAgram, Spring 2015, pp. 8 11. What was the Original Size of
the Great Pyramids Footprint?
How big is the base of the great
pyramid of Giza? Thats a silly question, right? You can get the answer
by reeling out a long tape measure
along each side. To do that, you have
to find the original edge on each
side. This is not an easy task because
most of the original facing stones
have been stolen or are eroded. You
would need to measure where the
edge of the facing stones met the
plaza surrounding the pyramid.
Mark Lehner of the Ancient Egypt
Research Associates (AERA) was
able to find places where 168 feet of
casing stone touch the platform on
the north side. He found none at all
on the south side. Out of an estimated original periphery of 920 meters, only 17% was in good enough
shape to measure. Lehners survey is
still in progress at this time.
More Zombie Ants
Science News Kindle Edition,
September 5, 2015. Caterpillar
Treats and Tricks Insects. (Current
Biology)
The Narathura japonica caterpillar
exudes a sweet substance that ants
love. In fact, they seem to become
caterpillar goo junkies. If anything
threatens the caterpillar, the ants go
nuts defending it. The habituated
ants rarely go home again. Chemical
evidence suggests that the sweet goo
suppresses dopamine production in
ant brains. So they need a continuous supply of goo to be happy.
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