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Hidden data is revealing the true scale of the coronavirus outbreak
Satellite images, internet speed and traffic information tell a whole new story about Covid-19. Exploring the idea of cyberspace as a digital place which is an adjunct to physical, analogue space. This article shows how understanding digital space changes our perceptions of analogue space.
Music For Health – Fela Kuti’s ‘Sorrow Tears and Blood’. The greatest protest song ever.
I lived in Toxteth, Liverpool for a while. I was delivering an urban outdoor education programme. At night I listened to a pirate radio station called TCR or Toxteth Comminity Radio. One DJ was called Encosi Fly. He played Fela Kuti's 'Sorrow Tears and Blood' every night as his closing track. Like the thing about metal below, MOBO always seemed to me to provide an outlet for the grasping of the polemic and the political and render it personal. Music is a healing force in so many ways.
Heavy metal is a ‘bloodletting for the emotionally engaged’ according to a new book
The album of my 16th year was 'Who's Next' by the Who. On it was 'Baba O'Riley' and 'Won't Get Fooled Again' I am over 60 and to this day these tracks make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and John Entwhistle's air bass comes out. We also listened to 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath'. This is such a true article. Metal and heavy rock generally for me is an outlet for disdain. It comes out through the music so it doesn't come out in my life. Metal is a lifesaver.
Nature connectedness and noticing nature: Key components of a good life.
For the past six months or so we’ve been working with the National Trust exploring how being connected with nature relates to pro-nature behaviours …Nature connectedness and noticing nature: Key components of a good life.
Rain Harping
A stunning outdoor performance...
Feeling Artsy? Here’s How Making Art Helps Your Brain – NPR
Great article about what art making does for your mind and body. Drawing is a core skill but may be seen as irrelevant if you do not wish to be an artist who's art is drawing. This helps explain how drawing does all sorts of stuff that helps you see, predict, perceive, reflect, feel, imagine and lots of other things useful to all art making and generally being a functioning organism.
What has Sat-Nav done to our brains?
Interesting programme suggests that our sense of identity and our memories are linked to a sense of place and connect the capacity to tell stories about ourselves at a physiological level through the hippocampus. If we learn to know where we are in space by using a map (as opposed to sat-nav) we have develop …
Even a small amount of creativity can help you cope with modern life, reveals new research by BBC Arts and UCL
Good news for those juggling time-pressures in today’s busy, modern life. According to ground breaking research commissioned by BBC Arts, even the briefest time spent on a creative pastime such as painting, pottery or playing the piano, has an impact on our wellbeing and emotions. In the largest study of its kind, with almost 50,000 …
Nature Connectedness: Pro-nature behaviours and the ‘Teenage Dip’ – Results from a population survey
Survey showing that a 'teenage dip' occurs with regards to feelings of connectedness to nature, with some possible explanations.http://findingnature.org.uk/2019/06/12/teenage-dip/ — Read on findingnature.org.uk/2019/06/12/teenage-dip/