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Free Virtual Exhibit Opening and Moderated Panel Discussion: Freud’s Drawings and the Visual Origins of Psychoanalysis
February 17 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm In this panel discussion, marking the opening of the online exhibition The Interpretation of Drawings: Freud and the Visual Origins of Psychoanalysis, noted Freud scholars explore the role of Freud’s drawings and art collection in the development of his psychoanalytic theories, and provide new insights into the man and mind behind some of the most influential and debated therapeutic techniques ever developed. MODERATORS
Elizabeth Lunbeck, Professor of the History of Science in Residence, Harvard University
Eighties pop is the best musical genre for reducing blood pressure, due to its positive nostalgia , researchers have found.
Turkish researchers hooked up 1,540 volunteers aged between 18 and 65 to blood pressure and heart rate monitors and played them a variety of music on Spotify.
Music from the hit TV series It s a Sin, which is heavy with tunes from the likes of Eighties legends Wham!, Pet Shop Boys and Duran Duran, were more effective at reducing blood pressure – an indicator of low anxiety – than 10 other genres.
Other genres effective at decreasing blood pressure were Noughties pop, like Kylie Minogue and Rihanna, and heavy metal, like Black Sabbath.
Listen to The Haunting Sound of a Conch Horn Played For The First Time in 17,000 Years
AFP
11 FEBRUARY 2021
After more than 17,000 years of silence and decades forgotten in a French museum, a shell fashioned into a horn by our prehistoric ancestors has been played again as a result of new research published Wednesday.
Scientists believe the ancient conch, from a species of large sea snail still present in the Atlantic and North Sea, is the oldest wind instrument of its type yet found.
The shell was unearthed in 1931 at an archaeological dig in the Pyrenees near the mouth of the Marsoulas Cave, whose walls are painted with the artwork of Magdalenian people living there at the end of the last ice age.