I first read about soalstalgia in Wired. The word was coined by philosopher Glenn Albrecht, after studying the sadness and sense of loss felt by those who experience environmental change at home, to the point where they no longer feel they know they place where they have lived. Albrecht himself describes it as “the homesickness [...]
Wired: Can playing music alter the structure of your brain?
Oliver Sacks: Very strikingly. In musicians, parts of the corpus callosum —the bridge betwteen the two hemispheres— are enlarged, and there’s more gray matter in the cerebellum. While you can’t tell by a glance at someone’s brain if they’re a writer or a mathematician, you can [...]
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