Yes, but no more than listening to Justin Bieber. The misconception that there’s something unique about Mozart’s ability to increase brainpower began in 1993, with a paper in Nature. Neurobiologists Gordon Shaw, Frances Rauscher and Katherine Ky of the University of California at Irvine found that students who listened to 10 minutes of a Mozart sonata demonstrated a temporary increase in spatial-temporal reasoning, as measured by an IQ test. The public seized on the romantic idea that listening to Mozart would make them smarter, and Don Campbell, a teacher and music educator from Texas, capitalized on the notion with an international bestseller, The Mozart Effect.

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A Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs fan has paid the ultimate tribute to her favourite film – by having the entire cast of characters etched on her skin.

Annfaye Kao, 27, from Taichung, Taiwan, had the intricate art work inked across her whole back in a marathon three month tattoo session. The colourful patchwork of cartoons was inspired by a dream she once had about the fairy tale

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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the list of the Top Scams of 2011. At first glance, the list is surprising because Nigerian scams are so low on the list. That is until you realize that the Nigerians are also behind most of the other scams on the list.

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