How Music Training Speeds Up Brain Development In Children
- Culture
- August 29, 2016
I recently splurged and visited Mackinac Island with a few friends. The island, located between the upper and lower peninsula of Michigan, is perhaps best known for its automobile ban, relegating all traffic to foot, horse, or bike.
Perhaps because …
READ MOREI have a postcard on my office door with a Samuel Beckett quote I like on it. It reads, in my sanitized English translation, “When you are in it up to your neck, the only thing left to do is …
READ MOREI recently visited Ireland, and amidst the rugged moors covered in gorse bushes and the patchworked sheep fields divided by hedges, family farms once dotted the landscape as a cornerstone of the country. Ireland was, at one point, a country …
READ MOREThe term “Luddite” emerged in early 1800s England. At the time there was a thriving textile industry that depended on manual knitting frames and a skilled workforce to create cloth and garments out of cotton and wool. But as …
READ MORE…READ MOREIn cities, some said the old man was crazy
While others said he was only lazy;
But he took no notice of gibes and jeers,
He knew he was working for future years…
And if they inquire whence came
The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) has some of the best demography number crunchers anywhere. With superb research and analysis capability, not much in the field escapes their attention. Earlier this year the US Bureau of the Census released new statistics …
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