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Scientists say this 191-year-old symphony could help your heart health.

This is pretty cool.

“ According to a group of fancy Oxford University scientists, listening to the third movement of Beethoven's No. 9 might actually lower your blood pressure and help fight heart disease. In real life. Music therapy has been a thing for a while. But British researchers just hit upon some of the first concrete evidence that it's actually, like, a thing.”

Fermi

I’ve been meaning to post these links together for a while now, fascinating stuff!  

Where are all the aliens via Quartz

Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” II: Questioning the Hart-Tipler Conjecture via Universe Today (Paul Patton)

Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” I: A Lunchtime Conversation- Enrico Fermi and Extraterrestrial Intelligence via Universe Today (Paul Patton)

11 of the Weirdest Solutions to the Fermi Paradox via io9 (George Dvorsky) The 7 Least Plausible Solutions To The Fermi Paradox via io9 (George Dvorsky)

This Animated Explanation Of The Fermi Paradox Is Fantastic via io9 (George Dvorsky)

Where Are All The Aliens? This Short Video Offers Some Solutions via io9 (George Dvorsky) this is part two to the previous link

Side note...  George’s posts on io9 are awesome, if you like science, I definitely recommend you check them out!

update: The Surprisingly Obvious Way We Could Hunt for Alien Life

another update:

The Fermi Paradox

Aliens

The strange star that has serious scientists talking about an alien megastructure

Ok, maybe not Aliens... lol...  but this is still a pretty cool news... The Many, Many Times Astronomers Mistook Mundane Phenomena for Aliens

Reading list

Don’t read all in one sitting... I’m working on an updated on an updated version of the Information Age timeline and also ruminating on themes running through these articles.   

Why we need a 21st-century Martin Luther to challenge the church of tech

'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism

The end of capitalism has begun

NSA files decoded: Edward Snowden's surveillance revelations explained

In the last five months, the NSA's surveillance practices have been revealed to be a massive international operation, staggering in scope. But how do all of the NSA's programmes fit together – and what does it mean for you?

Digital Literacy

SSSC Digital Literacy workshop

TEDxWarwick - Doug Belshaw - The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies

Lesson Plan Book

Some good suggestions...

Lots of great advice and links in this post!