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From sciencedaily.com:

According to research by psychologists at UC Santa Barbara and the University of British Columbia, exposure to the surrealism in, say, Kafka’s “The Country Doctor” or Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” enhances the cognitive mechanisms that oversee implicit learning functions. The researchers’ findings appear in an article published in the September issue of the journal Psychological Science.

Read the full article here.

I came across Matt Elliott’s music on WFMU and really liked it. Listen to a few of his tracks on his MySpace page.

While I was looking at his, an entry on his blog caought my eye: this blog is NOT about 9/11. Although I haven’t really put much thought into the tragedy that was 9/11, some of his comments aroused my curiosity. It’s definitely worth a read. One of the links on his post is from the History Commons site seems very interesting but requires a lot of time to read it properly.

Check it out here.

I just love this song…