How visual art gives us rich insights into how our brains work
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Album sheet with a rose, 1675 by Maria Merian. Photo: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images
Opinion: just like listening to music, viewing works of art can have a profound effect on our mental health
The arts are often portrayed as the polar opposite of the sciences. However, a closer inspection reveals a rich shared history in which the two approaches have, at different times, acted in a symbiotic manner.
Drawings and paintings were the only way in which scientific observations could be conveyed to others during those historical epochs before mass reproduction of images was possible. Da Vinci s anatomical drawings or Galileo s watercolour sketches of the moon are two examples of this. Later, the painted illustrations by artists such as Maria Merian, Ellen Hutchins, Genevieve Jones and Beatrix Potter paved the way for the classification of a variety of flora, fauna and fun
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Kaufman Music Center Announces Conrad Tao, Lisa Bielawa, Seth Parker Woods and More
This season, Kaufman Music Center is also introducing Musical Storefronts, a new initiative to bring live, socially-distanced concerts to New York s Upper West Side.by BWW News Desk
The spirit of innovation is alive in Kaufman Music Center s Winter/Spring online concert season, offering a wide variety of creative programs. Its three Artists-in-Residence for 2020-21 - composer Lisa Bielawa, composer/pianist Conrad Tao, and cellist Seth Parker Woods - feature prominently in the season: Tao and Woods will perform in the Ecstatic Music series (May 6 and May 9 respectively), while Bielawa will unveil her opera-in-progress Centuries in the Hours with help from students from KMC s Special Music School High School (May 27).
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by Ocean Robbins: Mushrooms have been eaten and used medicinally for thousands of years, all around the world…
Ancient Egyptians considered mushrooms to be plants of immortality and recognized them as a gift from the god Osiris. They valued mushrooms so highly, only the royals were allowed to consume them; commoners were forbidden to touch, much less eat them.
Based on the details of ancient rock paintings, some historians think that the use of magic mushrooms was alive and well in 9,000 BC among indigenous populations of North Africa. (I don’t know where those cave artists found tie-dye paint, but you can’t argue with science!) Furthermore, statues and art thought to represent mushrooms have been found in Mayan and Aztec ruins in Central America, establishing their ceremonial importance in the Americas over many thousands of years.
Rolling Stone Menu The Case for Macrodosing
Microdosing, where people take miniscule amounts of substances to change patterns of behavior, has brought psychedelics to the mainstream. But is there more to be gained with a much higher dose?
By Carolina Rodriguez Fuenmayor for Rolling Stone
This column is a collaboration with DoubleBlind, a print magazine and media company at the forefront of the psychedelic movement.
Would you care for a drop of LSD in your morning tea? A capsule of psilocybin-mushroom dust with your daily vitamins? Such is the daily regimen for those who’ve taken up microdosing, reporting anecdotally just how much this new psychedelic trend has changed their lives. Over the past decade, researchers have delved into how taking small amounts of psychedelics help people combat depression, trauma, attention deficit disorder, and even physical pain. Indeed, author Ayelet Waldman wrote a
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