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Your Music = Your Personality

I ran across an interesting study indicating that the music you listen to reflects your personality. Adrian North, a UK professor, carried out his research with 360,000 people in 60+ countries and looked at a large variety of music styles. Here are his conclusions:

Blues fans have high self-esteem, are creative, outgoing, gentle and at ease
Jazz fans have high self-esteem, are creative, outgoing and at ease
Classical music fans have high self-esteem, are creative, introvert and at ease
Rap fans have high self-esteem and are outgoing
Opera fans have high self-esteem, are creative and gentle
Country and western fans are hardworking and outgoing
Reggae fans have high self-esteem, are creative, not hardworking, outgoing, gentle and at ease
Dance fans are creative and outgoing but not gentle
Indie fans have low self-esteem, are creative, not hard working, and not gentle
Bollywood fans are creative and outgoing
Rock/heavy metal fans have low self-esteem, are creative, not hard-working, not outgoing, gentle, and at ease
Chart pop fans have high self-esteem, are hardworking, outgoing and gentle, but are not creative and not at ease
Soul fans have high self-esteem, are creative, outgoing, gentle, and at ease

 

I just thought this was an interesting tidbit to pass on to you. For more details, read Preferred Music Style Is Tied to Personality. Before clicking on that link, though, be sure to put on those headphones and rev up your tunes.

 

 

New Rock Accidentally Made by Man

On the shores of Hawaii, scientists found a brand new rock-type, one that man has made.  It’s multi-colored, has a variety of textures, is eroded into a round shape, and is usually 2” to 8” in size.  Break down its name—plastiglomerate—and you’ll guess at what it’s made of.  Yes, it’s partly plastic.  It forms when our garbage plastic melts, then hardens inside the pores of a rock.

How does our discarded plastic get melted?  Because the area where the hybrid rock was discovered is remote, campers keep fires going for cooking and heat for the period in which they camp there.  Often they think they’re doing a good thing by burning their garbage, much of which contains plastic. The melted plastic seeps into the ground and into rocks.

Makes me wonder how else we’re changing Nature.

 

Plastiglomerate