Kew- Ghosts: Sleepless in Sydney

 

Kew Dining

Adjoining the Gallery is Kew Dining, which offers alfresco dining on the terrace in summer or a cosy table by the fire in winter. The menu is modern Australian and includes light snacks, main meals, sandwiches and salads, all created by award-winning local chefs from fresh seasonal produce. Drop in for a coffee with homemade cake or simply indulge in a leisurely breakfast or lunch.

Ken Duncan Gallery With Dr Cope Sandra, Leslie and Christopher

Bushtucker And Native nursery 

The First Mughal Emperor Wrote One Of History’s Great Autobiographies

“Profoundly honest and unusually articulate, at once emotionally compelling and profoundly revealing, the Babur Nama is in many ways an oddly modern text, almost Proustian in its self-awareness. It presents the uncensored fullness of the man, a human life perfectly pinned to the page in simple, direct and unpretentious prose.” – Literary Hub

NPR – On why nose breathing is better than mouth breathing – “The nose filters, heats and treats raw air. Most of us know that. But so many of us don’t realize — at least I didn’t realize — how [inhaling through the nose] can trigger different hormones to flood into our bodies, how it can lower our blood pressure … how it monitors heart rate … even helps store memories. So it’s this incredible organ that … orchestrates innumerable functions in our body to keep us balanced…”

 

Safe visual search engine for kids “How is Kiddle (via Google) designed specifically for kids?

1. Safe search: sites appearing in Kiddle search results satisfy family friendly requirements, as we filter sites with explicit or deceptive content. Please read more on kids safe search on Kiddle here.
2. Kids-oriented results: the boxes below illustrate how Kiddle returns results for each query (in the order show Safe sites and pages written specifically for kids. Handpicked and checked by Kiddle editors..
3. Big thumbnails: most Kiddle search results are illustrated with big thumbnails, which makes it easier to scan the results, differentiate between them, and click the most appropriate results to your query. Thumbnails serve as visual clues and are especially beneficial to kids as they don’t read as fast as adults.
4.  Large Arial font: in Kiddle search results provides better readability for kids.
5. Privacy: we don’t collect any personally identifiable information, and our logs are deleted every 24 hours. Please read our full privacy statement here.
6. Why does Kiddle use a .co instead of a .com domain?: In Kiddle’s case “co” stands for “children only” – our focus and vision for Kiddle…”

 

Rachel Hadas: Do You Believe in Ghosts?

              for Bryanna Tidmarsh
 
Do you believe in ghosts? she asked.
New world of specters, muffled, masked:
now is the moment for this query,
when every encounter’s eerie
and we can only recognize
familiar faces by their eyes.
Not quite certain who we see
and navigating cautiously,
we make our slow and blurry way
through the labyrinth of each day.
If human faces are concealed
by mask or shield or mask and shield,
much else now is crystal clear –
not that it wasn’t always here,
but habit blithely papered over
structures we now must rediscover.
The virus casts a lurid glow
on what we knew and didn’t know,
leaving us with no excuse
to ignore forces on the loose.
In streets now crowded, we can sense
history’s weighty consequence,
not dead, and therefore not a ghost –
the past is never even past.
Still, I believe in ghosts: in all
the clouds of the invisible
the now beset us: memory,
injustice, virus, ancestry,
the gifts and poisons of each spirit
that we unknowingly inherit,
the countless energies that fly
unnoticed by the human eye.
So much, so much we cannot see!
That is what ghost means to me.
Pandora opened up her jar;
out flew the evils, fast and far,
famine and pestilence and war.
Hope, last, remained inside somehow –
hope that sustains us here and now,
poised, out most beloved ghost,
between the future and the past

Quartz – “People in the world’s Blue Zones—the places around the world with the highest life expectancy—don’t pump iron, run marathons or join gyms. Instead, they live in environments that constantly nudge them into moving without even thinking about it. This means that they grow gardens, walk throughout the day, and minimize mechanical conveniences for house and yard work. In fact, Blue Zones researchers determined that routine natural movement is one of the most impactful ways to increase your life span, and a common habit among the world’s longest-lived populations. Of course this might not seem realistic in our current knowledge economy, where we’re often tied to a desk and in front of a computer screen all day. Moving naturally throughout the day might sound pleasant and romantic, but the reality is that 100 years ago only 10% of us had sedentary jobs, whereas today it’s 90%. However, there are still easy ways to add more movement into your busy lifestyle…

A recent study from the American Cancer Societyrevealed that walking for six hours per week resulted in a lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and cancer than not being active at all. But the research also showed that walking even as little as two hours per week could reduce the risk of disease and help you live longer. Walking is also great medicine for your mind. A daily walk could reduce the risk of dementia by 40%, according to Anders Hansen, a physician and psychiatry specialist from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden…”