Mr. Smarty Pants
Spatial-temporal reasoning, Hitler's favorite movies, and more
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., Aug. 10, 2007
"The Mozart Effect" is the name attributed to psychologists' findings in 1993 that playing Mozart to their subjects increases their spatial-temporal reasoning.
Adolf Hitler's two favorite movies were King Kong and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
The earliest known robot was developed in 1206 by the Arab inventor and engineer Ibn Ismail Ibn al-Razzaz Al-Jazari, who also invented the crankshaft. His robots, models of musicians in a boat, entertained guests at royal parties.
In 16th century Japan, they licensed brothels and prostitutes.
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