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Eventually in 2008, Robert Knapper was convicted of the killing of Rachel Nickell. There was very little evidence that he had had anything to do with the crime but the police became convinced that he was the murderer and they laid an elaborate ‘honey pot’ plan to encourage him to confess.
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Limb CJ, Braun AR (2008) Neural Substrates of Spontaneous Musical Performance: An fMRI Study of Jazz Improvisation. The researchers were then able to compare the brain activation patterns between the two styles of performing, and statistically analyse the brain images to find out what had changed. The results were fascinating.
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Copyright 2008, Mike Brown. Help me also to use your talents to bring a creative spark and new possibilities to your world, living out my call to be an integral part of your creative force.
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