Even after accounting for a wide range of other health and social factors, researchers from University College London found that people over 50 who regularly engaged with arts activities were 31% less likely to die during a 14-year follow-up than peers with no art in their lives.
Those who took part in arts-related activities only once or twice a year still had 14% lower odds of dying during the study.
“These findings support previous statistical analyses and anthropological work suggesting there may be benefits of the arts to individuals as they age,” said Daisy Fancourt, an associate professor of psychobiology and epidemiology at University College London and co-author of the study.
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U.S. News and World Report has released it’s annual Best Country Rankings.
The overall rankings are made up of nine subrankings:
- Adventure
- Citizenship
- Cultural Influence
- Entrepreneurship
- Heritage
- Movers
- Open for Business
- Power
- Quality of Life
These are the top 10 overall:
1. 🇨🇭 Switzerland – Overall score 10.0
2. 🇯🇵 Japan – 9.8
3. 🇨🇦 Canada – 9.7
4. 🇩🇪 Germany – 9.6
5. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – 9.4
6. 🇸🇪 Sweden – 9.3
7. 🇦🇺 Australia – 9.3
8. 🇺🇸 United States – 9.2
9. 🇳🇴 Norway – 8.8
10. 🇫🇷 France – 8.7
11. 🇳🇱 Netherlands – 8.5
12. 🇳🇿 New Zealand – 8.3
13. 🇩🇰 Denmark – 8.2
14. 🇫🇮 Finland – 8.1
15. 🇸🇬 Singapore – 7.7
Instead of calling countries by their proper names, like “Canada” and “Spain,” this article on Digg calls them by their literal translations. Canada translates to “The Village” and Spain is “Land of Many Rabbits.”
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On August 21, 1911 Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was stolen when Vincenzo Peruggia slipped the small 76-by-53-centimetre painting out of the Louvre underneath his smock. The 16th-century Florentine beauty wasn’t discovered missing until the next day as the Louvre had been closed to the public.
Peruggia was caught two years later. He had been motivated by a desire to return the painting to its homeland in Florence, Italy, where it was located.
Today, millions of people visit the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris each year to catch a glimpse of her enigmatic smile.
The Queen of Soul passed away this morning at the age of 76.
The following 10 songs are standout examples of her gifts, a starting point in exploring her unrivaled career.
Precious Lord (Take My Hand) [Part Two], 1956
U.S. News & World Report has released their annual “Best Countries” index.
They evaluated 80 countries and surveyed 21,000 people from four regions (the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East and Africa). Countries were graded 65 different ways, from how well they rank in “citizenship,” “cultural influence,” “education,” “heritage,” “power,” to “quality of life,” to name a few.
Interestingly, both the UK and the USA are down one position in this year’s rankings.
- Switzerland
- Canada
- Germany (up 1 from 2017)
- United Kingdom (down 1 from 2017)
- Japan
- Sweden
- Australia (up 1 from 2017)
- United States (down 1 from 2017)
- France
- Netherlands (up 1 from 2017)
More at US News & World Report
The opportunity to see all of Van Gogh’s bedroom paintings in one place may have passed us by for now—an exhibit in Chicago brought them together in 2016. But we can see the original bedroom at the yellow house in Arles in a virtual space, along with almost 1,000 more Van Gogh paintings and drawings, at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam’s site. The digitized collection showcases a vast amount of Van Gogh’s work—including not only landscapes, but also his many portraits, self-portraits, drawings, city scenes, and still-lifes.
Researchers have shown that politically conservative Americans, with more restrictive their sexual attitudes, were more likely to have signed up for the adultery-focused dating website Ashley Madison than we’re liberal minded folks.
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