Toward a Whole World Ethic: The Role of Conscious Evolution

https://www.mindandlife.org/toward-a-whole-world-ethic-the-role-of-conscious-evolution/

Strange particles found in Antarctica cannot be explained by physics

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2229988-strange-particles-found-in-antarctica-cannot-be-explained-by-physics/

Who Will Shape the Art World in 2020?: ARTnews Presents ‘The Deciders’

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/shaping-art-2020s-1202674913/

Algorithms for Quantum Computers

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/algorithms-for-quantum-computers/

Notre Dame’s fire gives scientists a look at the cathedral’s origins

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/after-notre-dame-fire-scientists-glimpse-cathedral-origins

Jill Bolte Taylor: Mi fuerte derrame cerebral de lucidez

https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_my_stroke_of_insight/transcript?language=es

Infinitesimal Odds: A Scientist Finds Her Child’s Rare Illness Stems From the Gene She Studies

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/23/health/genes-mutation-foxg1-brain.html

SVEN VÄTH – RITUAL OF LIFE

Jan 16, 2020 | Song of the Week

The Link Between BDNF and Neuroplasticity

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/balanced/202001/the-link-between-bdnf-and-neuroplasticity

Researchers Identify Cellular Pathways that Extend Lifespan by 500%

https://www.technology.org/2020/01/13/researchers-identify-cellular-pathways-that-extend-lifespan-by-500/

The first living robots

https://neurosciencenews.com/living-robots-15470/

Giya Kancheli “Symphony No.2 ~ Chants”

Jan 9, 2020 | Song of the Week

Archaeologists Have Discovered the World’s Oldest Illustrated Book in an Ancient Egyptian Burial Site

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ancient-egyptian-oldest-book-1744110?utm_content=from_&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Europe%20Afternoon%20January%206&utm_term=New%20Euro%20Newsletter%20List%20%2890%20Day%20Engaged%20Only%29

Helen Sharman: ‘There’s no greater beauty than seeing the Earth from up high‘

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jan/05/astronaut-helen-sharman-this-much-i-know

Flying Observatory Maps Our Galaxy

Jan 9, 2020 | Highlight of the Month, Latest News Physics

Flying Observatory Maps Our...

Can Technology Mend Our Broken Minds?

https://www.technology.org/2020/01/06/can-technology-mend-our-broken-minds/

NASA planet hunter finds Earth-size habitable-zone world

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200106200012.htm

Young stars have been found in an old part of our galaxy

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/young-star-cluster-found-old-part-milky-way-galaxy

$1 increase in minimum wage linked to 3.5% – 6% fall in suicide rate

https://neurosciencenews.com/minimum-wage-suicide-15423/

Everything You Can Do, You Can Do Meta

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/ambigamy/202001/everything-you-can-do-you-can-do-meta

The Musée d’Orsay Hired an Instagram Artist-in-Residence to Imagine the Social Media Accounts of Impressionist Masters

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/musee-dorsay-instagram-artist-residency-1747413

David August – Epikur – Epikur EP (Official Video)

Jan 3, 2020 | Song of the Week

Transformed by Mexico, Six Women Broke Barriers Between Art and Design – The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/22/arts/design/women-artists-textiles-art-institute-chicago.html

A computer made from DNA can compute the square root of 900

Jan 3, 2020 | Highlight of the Month, Neuroscience

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2228461-a-computer-made-from-dna-can-compute-the-square-root-of-900/

NASA to Announce New Discoveries at Annual Astronomy Meeting

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-announce-new-discoveries-at-annual-astronomy-meeting

The Epic Battle for Mental Health and Inner Peace

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/ancient-insights/202001/the-epic-battle-mental-health-and-inner-peace

Are dark matter and dark energy related in anything apart from name?

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532630-100-are-dark-matter-and-dark-energy-related-in-anything-apart-from-name/

Justified and unjustified movie violence evokes different brain responses

https://neurosciencenews.com/movie-brain-violence-15369/

How the brain balances pleasure and pain

https://www.technology.org/2020/01/02/how-the-brain-balances-pleasure-and-pain/

Can We Help People From Other Cultures Than Our Own?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-refugee-experience/202001/can-we-help-people-other-cultures-our-own

Men think they’re better liars

https://neurosciencenews.com/men-liars-15335/

Which Emerging Artist Dominated 2019? 12 Art-World Players Share Their Thoughts

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/breakout-artists-2019-1710882

Do Not Take a Deep Breath

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/biofeedback-and-mindfulness-in-everyday-life/201912/do-not-take-deep-breath

ESO observations reveal black holes’ breakfast at the cosmic dawn

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/12/191219074632.htm

The Decade in Review

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/how-do-life/201912/the-decade-in-review

Laurie Spiegel ‎– Obsolete Systems (2001)

Dec 26, 2019 | Song of the Week

Words for love and other feelings vary in meaning across languages

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/some-languages-love-pity-get-rolled-into-same-word-meaning

What Was the Most Influential Exhibition of the Decade? We Asked Dozens of Art-World Experts for Their Pick

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/most-influential-show-of-the-decade-1728396

First identified comet to visit our solar system from another star: Interstellar comet 2I — Borisov swings past sun

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/12/191212142716.htm

A surprising new source of attention in the brain

https://neurosciencenews.com/brain-attention-15338/

A spotter’s guide to the Milky Way’s most badly behaved stars

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24432610-500-a-spotters-guide-to-the-milky-ways-most-badly-behaved-stars/

How 2019’s space missions explored distant worlds

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/how-2019-space-missions-explored-distant-worlds

Explore – The Night Sky | Hubble’s Caldwell Catalog

Dec 26, 2019 | Highlight of the Month, Neuroscience

https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/hubble-s-caldwell-catalog

Nature’s Best Poetry of 2019: Clouds

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/13/arts/design/weather-cloud-pictures.html

People with a sense of oneness experience greater life satisfaction: Effect is found regardless of religion

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190411101803.htm

Galaxy Gathering Brings Warmth

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/images/galaxy-gathering-brings-warmth.html

Deepening our understanding of selfish behavior

https://neurosciencenews.com/selfish-neural-process-15318/

Google’s quantum supremacy algorithm has found its first practical use

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2227490-googles-quantum-supremacy-algorithm-has-found-its-first-practical-use/

Who do you think you are? Why your sense of self is an illusion

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24432601-000-who-do-you-think-you-are-why-your-sense-of-self-is-an-illusion/

A mission to find the next Earth

https://www.technology.org/2019/12/16/a-mission-to-find-the-next-earth/

SAINT-SAENS à Notre Dame de Paris (concert 1997)

Dec 20, 2019 | Song of the Week

Notre Dame Cathedral fire: Cross and altar still standing after massive blaze in Paris

Dec 20, 2019 | Mind Health

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/notre-dame-cathedral-on-fire-crucifix-altar-cross-paris/

50 Arts Collectors to Watch

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/collectors-to-watch-1202672316/

Archaeologists Have Discovered the Oldest Figurative Cave Painting in the World, and It Is Very Weird

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/discovered-indonesian-cave-painting-1730517

Who do you think you are? Why your sense of self is an illusion

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24432601-000-who-do-you-think-you-are-why-your-sense-of-self-is-an-illusion/

The empathy option: The science of how and why we choose to be empathetic

https://neurosciencenews.com/empathy-science-psychology-15314/

Alien life could be weirder than our Earthling brains can ever imagine

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24432601-700-alien-life-could-be-weirder-than-our-earthling-brains-can-ever-imagine/

Dark energy: Understanding the mystery force that rules the universe

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24432601-900-dark-energy-understanding-the-mystery-force-that-rules-the-universe/

‘Cunningham’ Review: Exploring Space, Time and Dance in 3-D

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/11/movies/cunningham-documentary-review.html

A new mission to investigate exoplanets has rocketed into space

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/a-new-mission-to-investigate-exoplanets-has-rocketed-into-space

The neural basis of confirmation bias

https://neurosciencenews.com/confirmation-bias-15327/

NASA’s SDO Sees New Kind of Magnetic Explosion on Sun

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-s-sdo-sees-new-kind-of-magnetic-explosion-on-sun

Experts review evidence yoga is good for the brain

https://neurosciencenews.com/yoga-brain-15312/

Heat can quantum leap across a totally empty vacuum

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2226783-heat-can-quantum-leap-across-a-totally-empty-vacuum/

Controlling attention with brain waves

https://neurosciencenews.com/attention-brain-waves-15290/

How to Shape a Spiral Galaxy

Dec 13, 2019 | Highlight of the Month

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/how-to-shape-a-spiral-galaxy

Physicists image electrons flowing like water

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/12/191210122431.htm

A 44,000-year-old hunting scene is the oldest known storytelling art

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nearly-44000-year-old-hunting-scene-is-oldest-storytelling-art

Martha Argerich – Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 (2019)

Dec 13, 2019 | Song of the Week

Scientists Present New Ionosphere Images and Science at AGU 2019

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/postcards-from-the-edge-of-space-scientists-present-new-ionosphere-images-and-science

A new experiment shows quantum jitter lets heat travel across vacuums

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/quantum-jitter-lets-heat-travel-across-vacuum

Play sports for a healthier brain: Even football, soccer, hockey athletes have healthier brains

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/12/191209080502.htm

How Close Is Too Close?

https://archive.briankoberlein.com/2016/02/19/how-close-is-too-close/index.html

Making tiny antennas for wearable electronics

https://www.technology.org/2019/12/09/making-tiny-antennas-for-wearable-electronics/

Researchers discover the origin and evolution of a famous concept of the brain

https://neurosciencenews.com/homunculus-origin-15302/

A Female Composer Makes History With ‘Orlando’ in Vienna

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/06/arts/music/orlando-vienna-opera.html

Religion and Generosity

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/am-i-right/201912/religion-and-generosity

Experts review evidence yoga is good for the brain

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/12/191212105851.htm

Best Classical Music of 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/arts/best-classical-music.html

How does language emerge? New study provides insights into the first steps

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/12/191203102033.htm

Respiration key to increase oxygen in the brain

https://neurosciencenews.com/respiration-brain-oxygen-15288/

See 11 Powerful Artworks From a New Book Celebrating the Greatest Women Artists in History

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/great-women-artists-book-1706142

Human behavior follows probabilistic inference patterns

https://neurosciencenews.com/behavior-probabilistic-inference-15276/

The universe tends towards disorder. But how come nobody knows why?

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24432590-200-the-universe-tends-towards-disorder-but-how-come-nobody-knows-why/

IBM is using quantum computers to generate Minecraft-like game levels

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2225304-ibm-is-using-quantum-computers-to-generate-minecraft-like-game-levels/

World first as artificial neurons developed to cure chronic diseases

https://neurosciencenews.com/artificial-neurons-15279/

Ultrafast quantum simulations: A new twist to an old approach

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191125120951.htm

Mozart: Requiem In D Minor, K.626 – 8.Communio: Lux aeterna

Dec 6, 2019 | Song of the Week

First NASA Parker Solar Probe Results Reveal Surprising Details of Sun

Dec 6, 2019 | Highlight of the Month

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/first-nasa-parker-solar-probe-results-reveal-surprising-details-about-our-sun

Turn Empathy Into Compassion Without the Empathic Distress

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/pulling-through/201912/turn-empathy-compassion-without-the-empathic-distress

Decision-making process becomes visible in the brain

https://neurosciencenews.com/decision-making-brain-15277/

Scientists outline 10 simple rules for the computational modelling of behavioural data

https://phys.org/news/2019-11-scientists-outline-simple-behavioural.html

Scientists inch closer than ever to signal from cosmic dawn

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191126121134.htm

How our dreams prepare us to face our fears

https://neurosciencenews.com/dream-fear-15258/

United in musical diversity

https://neurosciencenews.com/musical-diversity-15255/

György Ligeti: Lux Aeterna

Nov 29, 2019 | Song of the Week

Algorithms that train AI to avoid specific misbehaviors are developed by Stanford and UMass scientists

https://www.technology.org/2019/11/22/stanford-umass-amherst-develop-algorithms-that-train-ai-to-avoid-specific-misbehaviors/

Universal features of music around the world

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191122113300.htm

Environmental enrichment corrects errors in brain development

https://neurosciencenews.com/environmental-enrichment-brain-development-15262/

Neuroscientists develop models to identify internal states of the brain

https://neurosciencenews.com/brain-state-models-15259/