For the last couple of years, Lithuanian officers have been pulling women over, but for a good reason – to honour them for International Womenâs Day. Instead of a ticket, they hand them flowers to celebrate the occasion.
The teacher who turned his classroom into a farm
A life-long Bronx resident and educator, Stephen Ritz has come up with a unique way to engage his students and change their surroundings.
You can help Steve bring Green Bronx Machine to more kids who’ll love it.
Andy Samberg and The Lonely Island’s Pop Music Mockumentary Trailer Is Here
âIt takes a village⌠to make me look dope.â Andy Samberg plays a spoiled pop star surrounded by yes men and his err… rather important employees in Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, a mockumentary co-written and co-directed by The Lonely Island.
Why Do Some Noises Make You Cringe? Let’s Bring In The Science
Hank Green of SciShow offers his explanation as to why certain sounds are considered to be so awful to listen to. It’s not the actual sound, but the frequency.
âŚit turns out that thereâs a good scientific reason why certain sounds set most peopleâs teeth on edge: human ears are extra sensitive to a particular range of pitches. Although where that sensitivity comes from is still up for debate. In 1986, a group of neuroscientists tried to get to the bottom of these intense reactions by doing what so many researchers do: unpleasant things to volunteers. Specifically, they asked 24 adults to rank a series of 16 sounds based on how unpleasant they thought those sounds were. And although that isnât a very big sample size, the noises that were consistently rated the nastiest â like the sound of a fork scraping a plate or squealing brakes â all had something in common: They share a frequency range between 2,000 and 5,000 hertz, where our ears happen to be especially sensitive.
Lucy Blair, Digital Marketer, Gets It Right On Why Music Is Less Important In Youth Culture
âWe listen to more individual tracks because weâre discovering more music, but that may be leading to more fickle artist/fan relationships And in response, the music industry is mainly sitting there going âShit! How do we get more plays and visibility on streaming services, and how do we crack discovery?ââ
âKids and teens discover music because they want a way to identify themselves.
âThey create content thatâs very episodic, short-form and very addictive, and they tend to focus on one key community first â YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat or whatever it is. They build up these huge audiences, and along the way, music is getting less important in youth culture.
âBecause musicians are trying to spread themselves thin across all these platforms â streaming, social, messaging â and itâs not really working because the audiences are so much less emotionally engaged. Thereâs a tyranny of choice of music, and slowly but surely our emotional connection to it is being eroded.
âAs an artist, itâs not about trying to sell to more people. The trick is to make people give a shit about you: to make them feel something. Those are the people who will keep coming back and streaming your music in the long term.â
Lady Gaga Speaks Out: ‘I’ve Suffered Through Depression and Anxiety My Whole Life’
Youâve met thousands of people whoâve been affected by the Born This Way foundation. Who is someone you canât forget?
Lady Gaga: There are a lot of kids that I could talk about. One Iâve become very good friends with is this girl, Emma. She has cerebral palsy. Sheâs in a wheelchair. I met her on the [2013] Born Brave Bus, when it followed the Born This Way Ball Tour, and we shared a very deep connection about the pain she was in. There were all these people around —Â cameras and journalists wanting to capture the moment between us —Â and I said to everyone, âCould you leave us alone?â I just wanted to be alone with her and ask her if she was OK. She was in her chair, kind of hunched over, but still with this very brave smile on her face. IÂ swore I was in the presence of maybe one of the greatest people. Moments like that make you go, âEveryone should learn from this person —Â this person knows what it means to self-empower through adversity, this person knows what it means to be strong when you’re not.â
When youâre listening to these kidsâ stories, whatâs the fundamental problem?
Lady Gaga: Depression and anxiety really link them. There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated. They read all of this extremely hateful language on the Internet. The internet is a toilet. It is. It used to be a fantastic resource —Â but you have to sort through shit to find the good stuff.
These kids just want to feel human, but they feel like robots. They donât understand why theyâre so sad. There are scientific reasons, which the foundation researches, why you feel sad when you look at your phone all day.
Iâve suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life, I still suffer with it every single day. I just want these kids to know that that depth that they feel as human beings is normal. We were born that way. This modern thing, where everyone is feeling shallow and less connected? That‘s not human.
Video: Bing Crosby’s visit to Vancouver BC in 1948
This cool newsreel shows Bingo Crosby visiting Vancouver, BC in 1948. It’s likely around the time of the film The Emperor Waltz starring Bing and Joan Fontaine was released. That movie, filmed on location in Jasper National Park in Alberta, is about a brash American gramophone salesman in Austria at the turn of the twentieth century who tries to convince Emperor Franz Joseph to buy a gramophone so the product will gain favor with the Austrian people.
Students In Their Dorm Rooms In Toronto, 1904-1905
These photographs were taken in the old Trinity College buildings that is now the location of Trinity-Bellwoods park. Anyone out there know these students? Grandparents or Great-Grandparent? Let me know!
