Recently my wife, Jill, picked up a novel by John Fischer. The title is “Saint Ben”. Actually it was two novels rolled into one. The main characters are pastor’s kids. Some great humor and deep theological perception rolled into easily readable text. In fact, Jill spent a good number of evenings reading it to me!
I was not surprised, then, to find his name crop up again when I was looking for some background on a sermon I was writing. He has a website at www.fischtank.com that you might find interesting. Here is one comment made in his “in the tank” section.
Hard Rock Mice – Tuesday, January, 09, 2001
“SUFFOLK, Va. (AP) – David Merrell, a Suffolk high school student, was so convinced that hard rock music is bad for the brain that he picked up 72 male lab mice, a stopwatch, a 5- by 3-foot maze and some CDs to prove his point. The 16-year-old from Nansemond River High School ended up winning top honors in regional and state science fairs.
David said a group of mice exposed to hard rock music took 30 minutes to bump through his maze. The same mice got through the maze in 10 minutes three weeks earlier.”
My conclusion? Play hard rock music in your house. Mice will have a harder time finding their way in.