m.guardian.co.uk Twitter may be harder to resist than alcohol because giving in to the desire seems 'low cost', researchers said. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA Tweeting or checking emails may be harder to resist than cigarettes and alcohol, according to researchers who tried to measure how well people could resist their desires. They even claim that while sleep and sex may be stronger urges, people are more likely to give in to longings or cravings to use social and other media. A team headed by Wilhelm Hofmann of Chicago University's Booth Business School say their experiment, using BlackBerrys, to gauge the willpower of 205 people aged between 18 and 85 in and around the German city of Würtzburg is the first to monitor such responses "in the wild" outside a laboratory. The results will soon be published in the journal Psychological Science. "Modern life is a welter of assorted desires marked by frequent conflict and resistance, the latter with uneven success," said Hofmann.
Moscow's Banksy: the street art of P183 – in pictures | Art and design A Russian street artist who created a giant pair of spectacles from a streetlamp has been dubbed 'the Russian Banksy'. The mysterious figure, known only as P183, creates eye-catching works around Moscow. P183 reveals little about himself except that his name is Pavel, he is 28 and that he studied 'communicative design' Stikman - a Look at Mysterious Stickman Street Art in Crosswalks Stikman in San Francisco Now, along with Washington DC, Boston, Hollywood, Philadelphia, Wheeling, WV, Ann Arbor, and Minneapolis (according to Murph2che), stikman figures can be found in San Francisco. The cluster with which I am familiar in the city is located South of Market, around the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The San Francisco stikmen can be found in crosswalks at the following places: Mission & New MontgomeryMission & Yerba Buena LaneMission & 4th Street There are probably more locations- this is just a spot I wear thin during lunchtime walks. Should you see a stickman or stikmen in San Francisco, or in any place for that matter, take a moment to appreciate your discovery of one of the world's many fascinating little mysteries. The Man Behind Stikman Because their creator is anonymous, it is impossible to know if stickman's creator is one person or a group of people.
Inspire Me Now 88 Ways To Make A Stranger Smile post written by: Marc Chernoff Email Don’t wait for people to smile. Show them how. Let your guard down. Remember, your best friend was once a stranger too. Love whoever is around to be loved. Smile often.Hold a door open for someone.Pay for the person in line behind you.Send a hand-written thank you card to someone who assisted you with something.Clean out all your old clothes and donate them to someone in need.Give a compliment about a waiter, waitress, sales clerk, etc. to his or her manager.Compliment a stranger’s appearance. And above all, live proudly. Photo by: Thomas Hawk If you enjoyed this article, check out our new best-selling book. And get inspiring life tips and quotes in your inbox (it's free)...
Unstill lives: Tate Britain's Migrations exhibition | Art and design Where does art start? People were at it on pots long before they carried pigments into their caves at Lascaux. Migrations, a startlingly original show at Tate Britain, will open up all sorts of new ways of seeing art as migration, as a continual flowing in from somewhere else. Its migrant nature begins when you translate what you've seen into what you make. But migration and home belong together, too. Migrations also, therefore, redraws the parameters for the larger question: what is British? The book that accompanies the show, edited by curator Lizzie Carey-Thomas, is full of reflections on what migration and art mean today in Britain. When Tate Britain's new director, Penelope Curtis, arrived in 2009 she wanted, she says, to look at the collection "in relation to its troubling name". Migrations sees British art and identity as a 500-year dialogue with Europe, America, the Commonwealth and ex-colonies. Himid studied at Wimbledon Art School in the 1970s.
Music Therapy in the Private Lesson Environment January 8, 2012 at 12:40 AM The process of learning or participating in music is therapeutic by nature. It has been scientifically proven that musicians develop certain areas of their brain that non-musicians do not (see works by Oliver Sacks). One of the most interesting things about music is that it stimulates both the logic/math (tempo, rhythm) and the creative/artistic (expressing yourself, creating beautiful tone) parts of your brain at the same time. The idea behind the field of Music Therapy is to use music to work on a goal that may not necessarily be musical. Obviously, every individual has different needs. Completely agree. I agree that there is a creative part of the brain musicians use. ---Ann Marie That's why I write both fiction and non-fiction on the side - to keep the creative juices flowing. From Terry Hsu Posted on January 11, 2012 at 2:46 PM Danielle, The entire music therapy field is intriguing to me, but I also find it a bit puzzling. Terry
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