Australia's over-65s are expected to increase by 2 million people in the next 20 years, experts predict a shift in society's perception of retirees

As with any art, taste in books is hopelessly subjective, and not just among readers, but among ages …

Early acoustic demo of John Lennon doing Yellow Submarine no it wasn’t a Paul song 

Secrets behind Magnetic Hill where gravity 'reverses' in outback SA

Did Tolstoy really need 783 pages to get Anna Karenina to the train station?

Who decides what makes a book a classic – and what does it say about us if we don’t enjoy it?

The Dance Instinct Goes Very Deep In Humans — And In Most Animals, Say Researchers

"Whichever culture you inhabit, it is likely that dancing is a part of it. ... To gyrate rhythmically to music in the presence of others – the closer you look at this custom, the stranger it seems – is an activity whose roots in the human psyche go deep. Why do we do it?"...

October 20, 2022

Dance As A Model For “Life Lived In Time”

If we look at the world through Parson’s eyes, we find that dance is all around us, in people stretching or hugging or standing in line. We are all “natural choreographers,” continually navigating through space. - The Atlantic

Comedy Wildlife Photo finalists – in picturesGuardian 

Australia's over-65s are expected to increase by 2 million people in the next 20 years, experts predict a shift in society's perception of retirees

Video: The Dalai Lama Has a Stark Warning for Humanity About Global Warming Bloomberg 

WARSAW SPIES AT WAR WITH EACH OTHER -- THESE THREE POLISH INTELLIGENCE AGENCY CHIEFS HAVE RESIGNED IN THE PAST TWO MONTHS. WERE THEY OUSTED FOR OBJECTING TO THE POLISH-AMERICAN STRATEGY FOR WAR WITH RUSSIA?

Theatre-Seat-Maker-To-The-Stars

“If a seat’s good, you don’t notice it,” he said. “You only notice it when it’s bad.” In the world of theater seating, he added, “No news is good news.” - The New York Times

October 24, 2022

The Art Of Cannabis Cultivation

Artist Pao Houa Her draws parallels "between the heyday of Hmong opium cultivation in Laos in the decades before the Vietnam War and the current Hmong cultivation of cannabis in the United States, particularly in California." - The New York Times

Irish Dance’s Match-Fixing Scandal Sees Its First Resignations

Two members of the board of competitive Irish step dancing's chief governing body have stepped down in the wake of revelations that some coaches and judges have colluded in fixing the results of competitions.  There has been no indication so far that either of the resigners was directly involved. - Irish Independent

October 25, 2022