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I think my parents (doctor and medical technician) are dismayed that I daydreamed my way though high school biology and, consequently, know little about physiology. My mother recently sent me “a gift” - a box set of lectures entitled Understanding the Human Body: An Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology. It’s a series of 34 college classroom lectures, all about 45 minutes long. I sat down, beer in hand, and watched my first lecture last night. Here’s what I learned!
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amazing effects of music
Interesting piece in the WSJ recently about the amazing effects of music. Here are some of the findings:
- Listening to Bach, Corelli, and Mozart is more effective in treating mild depression than is talking to a psychiatrist. per a study published in The Arts in Psychotherapy (more)
- Young women are more likely to give out their phone number after listening to romantic music. per a study from the Pyschology of Music (more)
- Men buy more roses when a florist plays love songs.
- People tend to tip better when a restaurant plays music with “pro-social” or empathetic lyrics. per the International Journal of Hospitality Management (more)
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This weekend I visited the Met and was turned on to Leon Levinstein, a photographer who captured candid depictions of life in New York in the 50s, 60s and 70s. I thought I would share my favorite from the exhibit (left, a woman at Coney Island). I’m juxtaposing it with my favorite of this amazing set of portraits - Orchard Beach (The Bronx Riviera) by Wayne Lawrence - that I recently stumbled upon in Mother Jones.
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PBR, marketed as “Blue Ribbon 1844,” a “world-famous spirit,” costs $44 a bottle in China. via NewYorker.com
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$8 for a dozen eggs? $3.90 for one peach? $50 for 3 pints of ice cream? →
In yesterday’s WSJ, Michael Pollan explains his philosophy behind paying more and eating less, and why he’ll pay $8 for a dozen eggs and $3.90 for the most expensive peach ever.
On a personal note, my business was just highlighted in the NYTimes as selling the most expensive ice cream in the land. And like the farmers Pollan describes in the interview, and my local food purveyor peers who have seen great support from the NYTimes, I’m certainly not getting wealthy from it.
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the United States has been at war for 47 of its 230 years, or 20 percent of its history
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