Music (Education)

The benefits and importance of music education are only just being understood. This article talks about the connection between musical activity and later life cognition.
http://news.emory.edu/stories/2012/07/hanna_pladdy_music_brain/index.html

Crafts (Fun)

This is too cool a craft idea not to share.
http://www.favecrafts.com/Outdoor/Fire-and-Ice-Luminaries/ml/1

Nutrition (Life)

I recently learned I had to make some dietary changes that involve tracking what I eat. This is an endless pain, especially since everything seems to use a different system. However, I found this site that offers conversions from weight to volume for whatever they have in their database, and it was a life saver. The search function is a little odd, so watch the precision and the number of words you include, but still, it’s a nice tool for converting things to a single standard.
http://www.aqua-calc.com/page/density-table

Psychology (Science)

More research is showing the ties between schizophrenia and creativity and has some interesting postulations.
http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/2522-genius-madness-connection.html

Research (Writing)

This is exactly the kind of detail that makes a created world robust…whether mentioned or not. The origin of pants:
http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/2683-wearing-pants-horse-riding.html

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