“Sound therapies have long been popular as a way of relaxing and restoring one’s health. For centuries, indigenous cultures have used music to enhance well-being and improve health conditions. Now, neuroscientists out of the UK have specified which tunes give you the most bang for your musical buck. In fact, listening to that one song — “Weightless” — resulted in a striking 65 percent reduction in participants’ overall anxiety, and a 35 percent reduction in their usual physiological resting rates.”
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America Invented Adolescence (And America May Soon See The End Of It)
“In addition to the conventional scope of childhood from birth through to age 12 – a period when children’s dependency was widely taken for granted – Americans moved the goalposts of childhood as a democratic ideal by extending protections to cover the teen years … [and creating] institutions that could guide adolescents during this later period of childhood” – the juvenile court system and the democratic high school.
Philip Glass Wins A Literary Prize
And no, it’s not for the libretto of Einstein on the Beach. (“1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, …”) It’s for an actual book: his memoir from last year.
John Milton’s Satan Is A Superhero
Stephen Akey: “My hero is fearless, proud, resolute, farseeing, self-sacrificing, and profoundly engaged in the struggle against tyranny and oppression. He’s also several hundred feet tall (when he wants to be), [and] does celestial cartwheels when flying between the earth and sun.”
How Is Julie Kent Changing The Washington Ballet?
She took over from Septime Webre as artictic director in July, and her first changes are just starting to show up. Jennifer Stahl gives us a rundown of what they look like so far.
Report Tries To Tally Cultural Industries Impact Of Brexit
The UK cultural sector’s ties in the EU are financial and artistic. So what are the costs for artists in Britain’s decision to leave?
Fake Old Master Has The Art World On Edge
So how did this painting, purporting to be a Frans Hals, fool top level experts? It’s making the art world worry about what other fakes might be out there and about a system that doesn’t seem to have done its job vetting. Is a bigger scandal looming?
In Defense Of The Publisher That Rejected ‘Pride And Prejudice’
Fans of Jane Austen have always tut-tutted about Thomas Cadell of Cadell & Davies, who returned the P&P manuscript to Jane’s father with a curt five-word note in 1797. Yet Cadell really doesn’t deserve the ignominy that that one decision has conferred on him. (Hey, we all make mistakes.) He certainly wasn’t anti-woman – quite the opposite, in fact.
Dude, *Please* Don’t Call Me A Philanthropist, Say Millennial Donors
Have the young’uns heard too many TED Talks? “The next generation of philanthropists at this year’s Philanthropy Australia conference made it perfectly clear that they would prefer to be known as ‘change-makers’ or ‘social entrepreneurs’, and so, are ‘consciously uncoupling’ from being known as philanthropists.”
Here’s How To Get Boys Interested In Ballet (From A Star Dancer Who Grew Up In A Maryland Slum)
“I found the best way to engage with these kids was to see if they could jump higher than me, run faster than me – physicality is what stimulated them. … Kids are required to take PE, so they could be encouraged to consider dance, too. The way in would be through dance generally, and now would be a good time for this, as hip-hop and ballroom clearly have a following.” An essay by Royal Ballet soloist Eric Underwood.