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Pluvious's JournalInverse: "Brain Study Pinpoints Why Music Can Literally Give You The Chills"
I suspect this reaction to some music, is not the same for everyone, but is tied to possessing certain traits.
Most likely a set of specific emotional traits, perhaps ?
I'm sure many personality types experience zero responses from of any kind of music.
( how sad for them )
Hopefully research into this fascinating direction will continue
There's something about it that tickles the brain anyway. When that happens, music can ignite literal chills.
https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/why-music-gives-you-chills
Daycares in Finland Built a 'Forest Floor', And It Changed Children's Immune Systems
I've always wondered about the wisdom of raising children in a antiseptic sterile environment.
Given that we so successfully evolved through the millennia closely tied to the soil and a diverse environment, suddenly altering that pattern could be counterproductive.
The Fins might be on to something here...
While the findings don't hold all the answers, they do support a leading idea - namely that a change in environmental microbes can relatively easily affect a well-established microbiome in children, giving their immune system a helping hand in the process.
The notion that an environment rich in living things impacts on our immunity is known as the 'biodiversity hypothesis'. Based on that hypothesis, a loss of biodiversity in urban areas could be at least partially responsible for the recent rise in immune-related illnesses.
"The results of this study support the biodiversity hypothesis and the concept that low biodiversity in the modern living environment may lead to an un-educated immune system and consequently increase the prevalence of immune-mediated diseases," the authors write.
https://www.sciencealert.com/daycares-in-finland-built-a-backyard-forest-and-it-changed-children-s-immune-systems/amp
EXCELLENT piece - Bruce Bartlett: Fox News Shares the Blame for Trump's Deranged, Ruinous Presidency
This really spells it all out quite succinctly...
But steel yourself, it won't leave you with the warm fuzzies.
A new book details how the president and his state media partners cash in on their symbiotic relationship while driving the country toward disaster.
Stelter reports that Trump administration officials must beg for interviews on Fox & Friends just so Trump will see them and in the process get briefed on some subject for which hes otherwise too preoccupied to reserve office time. Corporations have also learned about Trumps addiction to the show and exploit it by buying advertising in its time slot. (Unfortunately for them, Trump likes to watch Fox & Friends on delay so he can fast forward through commercials.)
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As the same time, Fox & Friends tutored Trump on policy, since Trump himself was a blank slate with no knowledge of any major policy issue. As one of the shows producers told Stelter, People think hes calling up Fox & Friends telling us what to say. Hell no. Its the opposite. We tell him what to say.
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The fanatic loyalty of Foxs audience delivers some $2 billion per year of profits into the pockets of Murdoch and his family. The bulk of this comes not from advertising, but from fees paid by cable systems for the right to carry Fox News. Typically, these systems pay Fox two dollars per subscriber per monthwell more than what CNN or MSNBC nets. (CNN earns less than one dollar per subscriber, MSCBC only 33 cents, according to Angelo Carusone of Media Matters for America.) And Fox knows that no cable system would dare drop Foxthat would result in the rapid loss of thousands of subscribers and a likely outbreak of picketing and demonstrations outside its offices.
Too many insights to quote here, worth reading the rest...
https://newrepublic.com/article/159207/fox-news-trump-deranged-ruinous-presidency
Actually, the next phase will begin...
It will make the Bush/Gore recount period look like a minor clerical error.
Then will come the pardons for cash.
The riots by the Incel Infantry and Proud Bois will burn the cities.
Then the Orange BLOTUS and entourage will take flight to Moscow.
Then the investigations and trials will begin.
Oh, and the rushed vaccinations will begin to manifest the side effects.
And Covid infections will pass the 10 million mark.
I need a drink.
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