Michelle Toole

This Site Was Inspired By An Interest in Protecting the Environment: We had the privilege and joy of learning from Dr. Charlie Stine who instilled a love for the natural world through incredible field trips with the Johns Hopkins Odyssey Certificate program in Environmental Studies. At the time, the program was endorsed by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Sadly, after Dr. Stine retired, the program was phased out. We hope that we honor his legacy by shining a bright light on environmental issues and sharing good news about the success of various conservation programs when possible.

Old Adults Can Make Just as Many New Brain Cells As Young People

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The discovery that healthy, older adults produce just as many new neurons reverses a long-held theory about how our brains grow old and it provides us with some new ideas about how we might keep our brains young and agile. Brain health is an important topic for people once they hit middle age. Like so … Read more

Far far away, behind the word mountains

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Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic … Read more

The meaning of health has evolved over time

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Aligned with the biomedical viewpoint, initial definitions of health centered on the idea of the body’s capacity for proper functioning. Health was regarded as a state of typical function, occasionally susceptible to disruption by diseases. A sample definition of health fitting this perspective is: “a state characterized by anatomical, physiological, and psychological soundness; the capacity … Read more

Apps & integrations

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There are three primary ways to work with third-party services in Ghost: using Zapier, editing your theme, or using the Ghost API. Zapier You can connect your Ghost site to over 1,000 external services using the official integration with Zapier. Zapier sets up automations with Triggers and Actions, which allows you to create and customise a … Read more

Top 10 old rock songs from the 80’s

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Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time.

General definitions of music include common elements such as pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics (loudness and softness), and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture (which are sometimes termed the “color” of a musical sound).

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Different styles or types of music may emphasize, de-emphasize or omit some of these elements. Music is performed with a vast range of instruments and vocal techniques ranging from singing to rapping; there are solely instrumental pieces, solely vocal pieces (such as songs without instrumental accompaniment) and pieces that combine singing and instruments.

The word derives from Greek μουσική (mousike; “art of the Muses”).

Ancient Greek and Indian philosophers defined music as tones ordered horizontally as melodies and vertically as harmonies. Common sayings such as “the harmony of the spheres” and “it is music to my ears” point to the notion that music is often ordered and pleasant to listen to. However, 20th-century composer John Cage thought that any sound can be music, saying, for example, “There is no noise, only sound.”

The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of music vary according to culture and social context. Indeed, throughout history, some new forms or styles of music have been criticized as “not being music”, including Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge string quartet in 1825, early jazz in the beginning of the 1900s and hardcore punk in the 1980s.