It's time to start the end-of-year office cleanup. Prepare for a major data dump.
My home office sometimes looks as if a Category 5 hurricane swept through. There are piles of magazines, teetering towers of books, records and CDs that have so far evaded being filed, and dozens of sticky notes and scraps of paper featuring near-illegible scribbles signifying… something. There are also special folders on three different computers filled with bits cut and pasted from websites, newsletters and social media.
This organization catastrophe is the result of 11 months of reading, researching, surfing, scrolling and otherwise sourcing out material for all my music writing, radio shows, podcasts and whatever other assignments fall in my lap. Whenever I run across something that I think might be useful, I squirrel it away somehow, eventually finding a home for the factoid somewhere in my content factory.
Well, most of these bits of trivia find a home. By the end of November, there’s plenty of material that’s orphaned and unused for any number of reasons. I could simply sweep everything into a big recycling bin, file the books, records, and CDs, and continue to ignore those files on my computers. That seems wrong, though, so each December, I cobble together a specialIt is aired on the radio before being converted to a podcast so that the whole world may have their minds blown.
Teenage Engineering is a quirky tech company that makes some interesting tools, gadgets and tools for the music-minded. Just in time for Christmas, it has the, a new drum machine/sampler that comes programmed with sounds from medieval times . That includes lyres, hurdy-gurdies, really old-school drum sounds, and even some Gregorian chants. For US$299, you can basically create your ownOne of the advantages of being a billionaire is that you can do whatever you want.
Researchers at California Northstate University College of Medicine looked at 3,736 studies, narrowing things down to 35 papers containing data on patient outcomes, focusing on things like pain and anxiety related to surgical procedures. They found that just listening to music after surgery through speakers or headphones has a “noticeable effect” on pain and anxiety levels. Heart rates dropped, as did levels of the stress hormone cortisol. That meant less reliance on powerful painkillers.9.
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