Structured music lessons significantly enhance children’s cognitive abilities — including language-based reasoning, short-term memory, planning and inhibition — which lead to improved academic performance. Published in Frontiers in Neuroscience, the research is the first large-scale, longitudinal study to be adapted into the regular school curriculum. Visual arts lessons were also found to significantly improve children’s visual and spatial memory. Continue reading “Music lessons improve children’s cognitive skills and academic performance”
Accept All Cultures – Embrace None
Written by Monk Martyrius Hope
In the world today we are taught to love our neighbors. Through this “unconditional” love and acceptance we are to attain a peaceful existence. The only problem is that we are not actually taught to love with our hearts, but we are taught a more contrived form of love, one based solely on outward interaction and acceptance. This is enforced and regulated form of love, is not a path towards true love, but one which only strips the soul dry of all depth and life. Continue reading “Accept All Cultures – Embrace None”
Space is proved hostile to DNA
Spending a year in space not only changes your outlook, it transforms your gene expression. Continue reading “Space is proved hostile to DNA”
Holding hands can sync brainwaves, ease pain, study shows
Reach for the hand of a loved one in pain and not only will your breathing and heart rate synchronize with theirs, your brain wave patterns will couple up too, according to a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Continue reading “Holding hands can sync brainwaves, ease pain, study shows”
Obesity Is Shifting Cancer to Young Adults
A Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher has compiled evidence from more than 100 publications to show how obesity increases risk of 13 different cancers in young adults. The meta-analysis describes how obesity has shifted certain cancers to younger age groups, and intensified cellular mechanisms promoting the diseases. Continue reading “Obesity Is Shifting Cancer to Young Adults”
What’s the cause of the World Crisis?
Saint Nikolai Velimrovic gives us an answer in the following text. Continue reading “What’s the cause of the World Crisis?”
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