連假要去哪裡玩～要去南台灣的朋友是不是有點擔心登革熱疫情呢？

先前跟大家介紹過的「用數據看台灣」，這次製作了「台南2015年即時登革熱資訊」，同樣是利用大數據與地圖結合，現在就一起來看看吧…

原文出處 http://real.taiwanstat.com/dengue-spatial-temporal/

Found an interesting fact about music...

LISTENING TO MOZART MAKES YOU SMARTER

Don't you just feel cultured when you tune in to a classical music station and take in an opera or a symphony by a great composer like Mozart? Baby Einstein, a company that makes DVDs, videos and other products for babies and toddlers incorporating classical art, music, and poetry, is a million-dollar franchise. Parents buy the products because they believe that exposure to great art (like Baby Mozart DVDs and CDs) can be good for their children's cognitive development. There are even classical music CDs designed to be played to developing fetuses. The idea that listening to classical music can increase your brainpower has become so popular that it's been dubbed "the Mozart effect." So how did this myth start?

In the 1950s, an ear, nose and throat doctor named Albert Tomatis began the trend, claiming success using Mozart's music to help people with speech and auditory disorders. In the 1990s, 36 students in a study at the University of California at Irvine listened to 10 minutes of a Mozart sonata before taking an IQ test. According to Dr. Gordon Shaw, the psychologist in charge of the study, the students' IQ scores went up by about 8 points. The "Mozart effect" was born.

A musician named Dan Campbell trademarked the phrase and created a line of books and CDs based on the concept, and states such as Georgia, Florida and Tennessee set aside money for classical music for babies and other young children. Campbell and others have gone on to assert that listening to Mozart can even improve your health.

However, the original University of California at Irvine study has been controversial in the scientific community. Dr. Frances Rauscher, a researcher involved in the study, stated that they never claimed it actually made anyone smarter; it just increased performance on certain spatial-temporal tasks. Other scientists have been unable to replicate the original results, and there is currently no scientific information to prove that listening to Mozart, or any other classical music, actually makes anyone smarter. Rauscher even said that the money spent by those states might be better spent on musical programs -- there's some evidence to show that learning an instrument improves concentration, self-confidence and coordination.

Mozart certainly can't hurt you, and you might even enjoy it if you give it a try, but you won't get any smarter.

by Shanna Freeman

坊間流傳，聽古典音樂可以提高小朋友的智商；懷孕時期聽莫札特作品作為胎教，甚至可以培育出天才BB，所以連港產動畫片《麥兜響噹噹》中的麥太，也要大住個肚跑去參加「莫札特效應學習班」。

雖然胎兒有聽覺和記憶力是事實，但所謂「莫札特效應」，到底有多真？

要拆解這謎團，便要從歷史講起。

在1991年，法國醫生Dr. Alfred Tomatis提倡運用莫札特音樂去治療自閉症和其他學習障礙問題時所創造，但真正令這概念發揚光大的，卻是美國加州大學心理學家Dr. Frances Rauscher……

參考資料
Lise Eliot, What’s going on in there: How the brain and mind develop in the first five years of life. Bantam (1999), p. 449-451.

F. H. Rauscher et al., “Music and spatial task performance”, Nature(1993), p.611; “Listening to Mozart enhances spatial-temporal reasoning: Towards a neurophysiological basis”, Neuroscience Letters(1995), p.44-47; “Music training causes long-term enhancement of preschool children’s spatial-temporal reasoning”, Neurological Research(1997), p.2-8.

Abbott, Alison. "Mozart doesn't make you clever". Nature. com. Retrieved 2009-05-22.

John Medina, Brain rules: How to raise a smart and happy child from zero to five. Pear Press(2010), p.22-53.

Steele K.M. et al., “Prelude or requiem for the 'Mozart effect'?”, Nature (1999), p.827-827.