LEMON AND ROSEMARY STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKES WITH WARM SWEET CREAM

Asian beef skewers

Keith Sonnier, Portals, at Maccarone.

Diphylleia grayi - also known as the skeleton flower - is native to eastern Asia and the United States. What is unique about this flower is that its normally white petals turn transparent when touched by rain. 

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Study Says Making Art Reduces Stress, Even If You Kind Of Suck At It

Researchers found that 45 minutes of creative activity significantly lessens stress in the body.

The next time you’re blessed with that familiar, overwhelming sensation of stress — when your anxieties turn from passing sensations in the brain to rude house guests overstaying their welcome — I highly recommend breaking out your construction paper, model clay, glitter glue, feathers and pipe cleaners.

“I’m not an artist!” you might protest, recalling the ambivalent grin your parents flashed while hanging your elementary school masterpiece on the refrigerator all those years ago. But, no matter. Honestly, it does not matter. Science says so.

More specifically, Girija Kaimal, assistant professor of creative arts therapies at Drexel University, says so. Kaimal recently led a study examining the effects of making art on stress-related hormones in your body.

The results, published in Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, titled “Reduction of Cortisol Levels and Participants’ Responses Following Art Making,” found that 45 minutes of creative activity significantly lessens stress in the body, regardless of artistic experience or talent.

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Spring has sprung! Enjoy a dose of color with Willie Cole’s Pressed Iron Blossom No. 2.

[Willie Cole. Pressed Iron Blossom No. 2. 2005. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2016 Willie Cole]

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Cassie the Robot Walks Just Like Humans Do

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