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"The Neuroscience of Cancer
Scientists are making surprising discoveries about the connections between cancer and the nervous system"
https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/neuroscience-cancer

Very nice article about LLM architecture, a bit too complicated for me but probably not for others..
https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/the-big-llm-architecture-comparison

The Big LLM Architecture Comparison
From DeepSeek-V3 to Kimi K2: A Look At Modern LLM Architecture Design

"Solar myths and misconceptions"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Solar myths and misconceptions
In a new monthly column for pv magazine, the International Solar Energy Society (ISES) debunks old and new urban legends about solar energy.

Cheek To Cheek: Celebrating The Perfect Partnership Of Ella And Louis https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/ella-and-louis-cheek-cheek/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=uDiscoverMusic/magazine/Jazz…

Cheek To Cheek: Celebrating The Perfect Partnership Of Ella And Louis
With their three albums for Verve, Ella and Louis proved themselves the perfect partnership, setting the bar for all jazz duets to follow.

Book review: The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters by Christine Webb
https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/78/were-not-so-special/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&…

Vanity Fair announces 12 new hires, including Olivia Nuzzi, who left New York Magazine in October 2024 after admitting to an affair with RFK Jr. (Vanity Fair)
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/vanity-fair-welcomes-new-hires

Vanity Fair Announces New Hires Across Departments
Jennifer Pastore, Olivia Nuzzi, Lindsey Underwood, Aidan McLaughlin, and more to join the magazine

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/magazine/china-green-tech-laos.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nE8.TAJ9.yOT0_0sUJRD1&smid=nytcore-android-share

What Will China’s Green-Tech Ambitions Cost the World?
Laos is just one of the emerging markets where China’s green-tech revolution is installing more than cheap energy.

“The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.”
#AI #Education
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/07/the-end-of-the-english-paper

[from 2018, but pertinent]
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle. - POLITICO Magazine
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/13/stephen-miller-is-an-immigration-hypocrite-i-know-because-im-his-uncle-219351/

Larry Ellison’s expected incursion into Hollywood and Big Media, if successful,
could also go well beyond what other tech moguls like Jeff Bezos and Marc Benioff have attempted through their acquisitions of The Washington Post and Time magazine, respectively.
For those men, the acquisitions were more like expensive hobbies.
Mr. Ellison is up to something very different:
transforming himself into a media magnate.
Along with his son, David, he could soon end up …

Opinion | Larry Ellison Is Closing In on CNN, HBO and TikTok
Larry Ellison is now suddenly poised to become the most powerful media mogul America has ever seen.

"India achieves 50% clean power capacity five years ahead of target"
#India #Renewables #Energy

India achieves 50% clean power capacity five years ahead of target
India reached 484.82 GW of total installed power capacity as of June 30, 2025, with 242.8 GW from non-fossil fuel sources, including 8.8 GW nuclear, 49.4 GW hydro, and 184.6 GW from renewable energy.

Akiko’s Piano: The Memories of a Piano – 80 Years After the Atomic Bomb https://www.pianostreet.com/blog/piano-news/ak…

Akiko’s Piano: The Memories of a Piano – 80 Years After the Atomic Bomb
PIANO NEWS: An article about Akiko’s Piano: The Memories of a Piano – 80 Years After the Atomic Bomb from the Piano Street Magazine.

🎨 Droip: The Modern Website Builder WordPress Needed
#web

Droip: The Modern Website Builder WordPress Needed — Smashing Magazine
Traditional page builders have shaped how we build WordPress sites for years. Let’s take a closer look at [Droip](https://droip.com/), a modern, no-code visual builder, and explore how it redefines the experience with cleaner performance, full design freedom, and zero plugin dependency.

"Dutch heating specialist offers residential heat pump for flat roofs"
#Netherlands #HeatPumps #Energy

Dutch heating specialist offers residential heat pump for flat roofs
WeHeat said its monoblock air-to-water heat pump features a seasonal coefficient of performance of 4.7 and propane as the refrigerant. The system is available in four versions with output ranging from 8 kW to 11 kW.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/10/dictionary-survival-language-evolution/683976/

Who Will Save the Dictionary?
These are parlous times for lexicographers.

Yet more dangerous advice from AI to a 13 year-old.
"Sexting With Gemini
Why did Google’s supposedly teen-friendly chatbot say it wanted to tie me up?"

Sexting With Gemini
Why did Google’s supposedly teen-friendly chatbot say it wanted to tie me up?

In 1987, a young real estate developer traveled to the Soviet Union.
The KGB almost certainly made the trip happen.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842/

A group of high-profile writers plan to launch a magazine called Equator to challenge the "assumption that global events should be narrated by and for the West" (Ben Smith/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/14/2025/new-post-american-g…

New ‘post-American’ global magazine to launch
Equator will “challenge the reigning assumption that global events should be narrated by and for the West.”

Hurray. @… have a new book coming out:
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/printed-books/accessible-ux-research/

Ziemlich gut zusammengefasst... #toll #BVerfG #BrosiusGersdorf

Wer hat die Wahl neuer Verfassungsrichter vermurkst? Jens Spahn? Friedrich Merz? Der Weltgeist?
Die Richterwahl im Bundestag ist gescheitert. Nun stellt sich die Frage wer beschädigter ist: die Koalition, das Verfassungsgericht oder Jens Spahn?

Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies Approves Bill Banning Cosmetic Testing on Live Vertebrates https://vegconomist.com/politics-law/brazil-approves-bill-banning-cosmetic-testing-live-vertebrates/

Brazil's Chamber of Deputies Approves Bill Banning Cosmetic Testing on Live Vertebrates - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
Brazil's Chamber of Deputies has approved the Senate's substitute text for a bill that would ban the testing of cosmetics, personal hygiene products, and

Mad Magazine, 1992! Via @…, but look for him on Bluesky, where he is active. #Trump

Yes! God still loves us!
There's a new Spinal Tap movie!
😎🤘🏼
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/10/spinal-ta…

A 'Spinal Tap' Sequel Riffs on the End of Rock
Forty years after Spinal Tap, history’s most hapless band turns it up to 11 one last time.

""[…] it is our pleasure to announce the availability of #Fedora #Linux 43 beta! This release comes packed with the latest version upgrades of existing features, plus a few new ones too. As with every beta release, this is your opportunity to test out the upcoming Fedora Linux release a…

Why Sing In A Choir? https://muz4now.com/2025/why-sing-in-a-choir/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/music&utm_medium=mastodon

Why Sing In A Choir?
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Ten years (!) ago #OTD the first - and shockingly clear - #GravitationalWave signal was seen by the two LIGO detectors ... rumors flew immediately but the official announcement came only in February 2016: https://telescoper.blog/2025/09/14/a-decade-of-gravitational-waves/ and a lot more in https://ligo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/LIGO-magazine-issue27.pdf plus a long article from back then in https://cplberry.com/2016/02/11/gw150914/ and a 1-1/2-hour documentary at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX4vCNi544w

"Amendment is a constitution’s mechanism for the prevention of insurrection—the only way to change the fundamentals of government without recourse to rebellion. Amendment is so essential to the American constitutional tradition—so methodical and so entirely a conception of endurance through adaptation—that it can best be described as a philosophy. It is, at this point, a philosophy all but forgotten."

How Originalism Killed the Constitution
A radical legal philosophy has undermined the process of constitutional evolution.

Just found another person who enjoyed the movie "The Thing" by John Carpenter but was unaware of the existence of the short story "The Things" by Peter Watts. It is "The Thing" but told from the perspective of The Thing, is very good, and has been published for free:
https://clarkesworldmagazine.co…

AOC #2 magazine - l'international Tronçonneuse: https://blog.rmendes.net/2025/06/29/aoc-magazine-linternational-trononneuse.html

💸 Heir Ball: How the Cost of Youth Sports Is Changing the N.B.A.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/30/heir-ball-how-the-cost-of-youth-sports-is-changing-the-nba
🆓

Heir Ball: How the Cost of Youth Sports Is Changing the N.B.A.
Jay Caspian Kang talks to Jermaine O’Neal, Luka Dončić, Steve Nash, and others around the N.B.A. about how the professionalization of youth sports is changing the landscape of pro basketball.

Will a new startup topple Nvidia's dominance with more efficient AI chips? I suggest it may not make much difference to AI's environmental footprint in this piece from Inc. magazine https://www.inc.com/ben-sherry/why-this-ai-startup-…

Eine ausgezeichnete WISO-Reportage über das Preischaos an deutschen öffentlichen Ladestationen. Ein drohendes Oligopol schwächt den Wettbewerb. Der BDEW verteidigt natürlich die etablierten Unternehmen und auch das BMWE hält den Markt noch für jung.
https://www.zdf.de/play/magazine/wiso-104/

Elektroauto unterwegs laden: Preis-Ärger und Tarifwirrwarr an Ladesäulen
Unterwegs günstig Strom fürs Elektroauto finden ist schwer. Die WISO-Reportage zeigt, wie unübersichtlich die Preise an den Ladesäulen sind.

I don't want to live forever, I just want to live long enough to... (list in alphabetical order by verb):
- climb every mountain, hill, and cliff
- hug every pillow, plushie, and stuffed animal
- learn every language
- listen to every song, podcast, radio show, and sound effect
- meet every person, animal, and other living being
- play every video game, board game, sport, and musical instrument
- read every book, newspaper/magazine article, website, and social media post
- run every computer program
- sleep on every bed, couch, and futon
- swim in every lake, river, and other body of water
- view every painting, sculpture, photograph, map, and other work of art
- visit every city, landmark, historic site, and protected area
- watch every movie, TV show, video, and theater production
...that all shouldn't take too long, right?

"Worldwide battery storage installations up 54% in first half of 2025, June sets monthly record"
#Batteries #Energy

Worldwide battery storage installations up 54% in first half of 2025, June sets monthly record
New data from Rho Motion shows that over half of June’s installations were concentrated in China, maintaining the country’s dominance in the global energy storage market.

Comic book artist Ian Bertram on encouraging your inner artist https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/comic…

Comic book artist Ian Bertram on encouraging your inner artist – The Creative Independent
Comic book artist Ian Bertram discusses making time and space for creativity, finding an overall balance, and the difficulty of describing your own work.

Huch! Mama, ich bin in Fäääärnseeeh! #zdf #wiso
https://www.zdf.de/play/magazine/wiso-104/

You know, 30 years ago I loved WIRED. The print magazine was awesome, great design, good paper, etc. and the online stuff was also good!
And in the last year or two there were a few really good posts/articles by WIRED. So I figured, hey, I'll subscribe again!
The magazine is small, doesn't look good, printed on crappy paper... has a few good articles, but the graphic design is lacking.
And online? Mostly Capitalism. "The 15 Best [INSERT PRODUCT HERE]!" ove…

"How a New Data Platform Sheds Light on #OpenScience #Funding" @ Katina Magazine:

This is proper journalism. "How Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power"
NYT gift article https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/magazine/benjamin-netanyahu-gaza-war.h…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Magazine:
🎵 Because You’re Frightened
#Magazine
https://7thvictim.bandcamp.com/track/because-youre-frightened-magazine-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/7I2F04fUq0DAetR5BMcQYc

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/08/microplastics-exposure-health-risks/683249/?gift=7dKtnNrILXcLLty1b9gh3hCmZ7_VaJt-S6NiDl5ppQU

What Happened When I Tried to Eliminate Plastic From My Family’s Life
My futile quest to avoid the material that my entire world is made out of

How Smithsonian Magazine is handling Gulf of Mexico/Gulf of America

"Upcycling solar glass waste to use in solid-state lithium batteries"
#Glass #Batteries #Energy

Upcycling solar glass waste to use in solid-state lithium batteries
Nanyang Technological University researchers have milled solar panel glass waste for use in cathodes used in solid state lithium metal batteries. When used as a functional filler in solid polymer electrolyte (SPE) material, the resulting battery performance was maintained over 80 charge cycles with an 8.3 % improvement over the reference device.

A look at the potential future of personalized, AI-generated entertainment, and how it could both submerge human originality and enable new forms of expression (Joshua Rothman/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/ai-is-coming-for-cu…

A.I. Is Coming for Culture
We’re used to algorithms guiding our choices. But when machines can effortlessly generate the content we consume, Joshua Rothman asks, what’s left for the human imagination?

Edward Enninful's quarterly print magazine, 72, launches with no print ads, but "powered by incredible companies"; at least seven Vogue staffers have joined 72 (Chloe Mac Donnell/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025/s

Jetzt mag ich Steve Martin noch etwas mehr:
https://www.newyorker.com/m…

This Is One of New York’s Most Scenic Hikes, with Endless Waterfalls, Fascinating Rock Formations, and Unique Charm
https://chasingch…

"Without reaching such dimensions, and thankfully without breaking neither your back nor your wallet, “The Computer” is as gorgeous as it is unwieldy. Its almost 500 pages, of impeccable glossy paper, retrace the impact of the computer as a vector of social change. Be sure to enjoy it on your couch or sitting on a table. You have been warned."

Wanna download a 28pg #StarWars #Andor magazine? (.PDF)
(Physical copies were made available at a popup store in Hollywood.)
✅ Download of "Rebelión: An Andor Zine" - StarWars. com

Related to understanding firearms, "rifles" and hand guns tend to be rifled. Rifling is grooving that runs in a helical pattern down the barrel. When purchasing a firearm, it's important to check the rifling.
First check that the firearm is unloaded. Empty or remove the magazine, cycle the weapon. Next, check again that it's unloaded by looking both down the barrel and into the magazine. Now, shine a light down the barrel and look down it. In the absence of a light, you may be able to reflect light off your thumbnail.
Rifling should look as though it's drawn on with a sharp pencil, and the barrel should look otherwise completely smooth and clean. If the rifling looks like bumpy mountains, then the owner probably used corrosive ammo and didn't clean it enough. It will probably still shoot, but not at all accurately.
Both the rifling and the pin can be used in forensic analysis to match a bullet to a gun. I don't honestly know how accurate this is because a lot of forensic "science" is just made up stuff that relies on the CSI effect and doesn't actually work as advertised.
However, not all firearms are not all rifled. Shotguns are "smoothbore" firearms, meaning they lack rifling. It is not possible to perform forensic analysis of a smoothbore firearm. It *is* possible to check for powder on the hands of someone who has used a firearm within the last few days, but it's not possible to distinguish between firing inside and outside a range.
I've been gathering all kinds of tidbits like this, partially just out of curiosity and partially because I've been wanting to write a story about a revolutionary group fighting a modern authoritarian society. I'm always happy to learn other bits, if anyone has anything else I could throw in my narrative (whenever I finally get back to writing it).

Men Are Impersonating ICE to Attack Immigrant Women. MAGA Emboldened Them. - Ms. Magazine
https://msmagazine.com/2025/07/10/men-impersonating-ice-agents-immigration-customs-attack-women-maga-trump/

Kevin Durant's Boardroom, a site focused on athletes and other entertainers, plans to launch a print magazine this month, with quarterly issues starting in 2026 (Daniel Kaplan/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Boardroom Plans Print Magazine Launch as Kevin Durant-Backed Start Up Branches Out
The company run by Rich Kleiman is testing the waters with a U.S. Open-themed cover feature in August and plans to publish quarterly beginning in 2026.

Survey: 83% of Filipino Consumers Plan to Increase Their Consumption of Plant-Based Foods https://vegconomist.com/studies-numbers/survey-filipino-consumers-plan-increase-consumption-plant-based-foods/

Survey: 83% of Filipino Consumers Plan to Increase Their Consumption of Plant-Based Foods - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
Tokyo-based consumer research agency GMO Foods has conducted a survey on the attitudes of Filipino consumers toward plant-based foods.

"SunCable to supply solar and storage to data centers by 2028"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

SunCable to supply solar and storage to data centers by 2028
SunCable has confirmed its large-scale renewable and energy storage project in Australia’s Northern Territory could be operational before 2030, following a “pragmatic” reprioritization of initial plans.

Yes, at German discount supermarkets, you can purchase a do-it-yourself 'Balkonsolar' system and battery. Simply plug it in and you're ready to go.
However, Aldi Australia offers complete systems: 6 kW solar, a 5.5 kW inverter and a 10 kWh LFP battery, fully installed for AU$7,000 (€4,000)!

Supermarket giant expands rooftop solar and battery offer
Budget supermarket chain Aldi is expanding its residential solar business, opening up sales of its rooftop PV and battery energy storage packages to customers in Australia’s eastern states after a trial in Victoria.

"How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books?" @ Katina Magazine: https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/how-should-diamond-oa-work-for-books

Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power
Secret meetings, altered records, ignored intelligence:
the inside story of the prime minister’s political calculations
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/magazin

How Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power
Secret meetings, altered records, ignored intelligence: the inside story of the prime minister’s political calculations since Oct. 7.

A Brand Divided: Trademark and the Legacy of Frida Kahlo
https://illusionofmore.com/a-brand-divided-trademark-and-the-legacy-of-frida-kahlo/?utm_source=flip…

A Brand Divided: Trademark and the Legacy of Frida Kahlo - The Illusion of More
The ongoing litigation over the right to control the Frida Kahlo trademarks implies two very different paths for the artist's legacy.

Musician Ela Minus on having more power over your work
#creativity #artist

Musician Ela Minus on having more power over your work – The Creative Independent
Musician Ela Minus discusses demystifying your industry, questioning yourself and the systems around you, and the importance of teaching others

"China targets 180 GW of new energy storage by 2027 in ambitous national plan"
#China #Energy #Renewables

China targets 180 GW of new energy storage by 2027 in ambitous national plan
Announced by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the National Energy Administration (NEA), the new plan is expected to drive CNY 250 billion ($35.1 billion) in sector investment.

Report Says UK is Lagging Behind in the Transition to Sustainable Diets, Outlines Four Solutions https://vegconomist.com/politics-law/report-uk-lagging-behind-sustainable-diets-solutions/

Report Says UK is Lagging Behind in the Transition to Sustainable Diets, Outlines Four Solutions - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
ProVeg UK says the country is currently lagging behind other European nations when it comes to promoting healthy, climate-friendly food.

I was most interested in how A.I.
— one of whose many superpowers is the ability to inhale large amounts of text in an instant and offer credible summaries of it
— might transform the way history is written.
https://www.…

A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally.
The technology’s ability to read and summarize text is already making it a useful tool for scholarship. How will it change the stories we tell about the past?

Author Adelaide Faith on the fear and joy of total artistic freedom
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/author-adelaide-fai…

Author Adelaide Faith on the fear and joy of total artistic freedom – The Creative Independent
Author Adelaide Faith discusses managing work, parenting and creative time, sticking to a schedule, and choosing a day job that makes a difference in the world.

"If you're lucky, reality has all the books you need."
http://www.incidentalcomics.com/2025/06/real-talk.html

The Atlantic settled a defamation lawsuit by Ruth Shalit Barrett for $1M , resolving a dispute over the magazine's 2020 retraction of her story on youth sports (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12…

Atlantic Settles Writer’s Suit Over Article It Retracted
The writer, Ruth Shalit Barrett, had accused the magazine of defaming her in a lengthy editor’s note.

‘Songwriters are at the bottom of the earning scale – and that is unfathomable, inexcusable and disgusting’ https://www.musicbusinessworldwide…

‘Songwriters are at the bottom of the earning scale – and that is unfathomable, inexcusable and disgusting’
Shelly Peiken on writing classic hits for Meredith Brooks, Christina Aguilera and many others, as well as her fight for songwriters’ rights, ignoring the algorithm, and not being an asshole

Study: 63% of Consumers Have a More Positive Perception of Brands That Use Sustainable Packaging https://vegconomist.com/packaging/study-consumers-associate-sustainable-packaging-positive-brand-perception/

Study: 63% of Consumers Have a More Positive Perception of Brands That Use Sustainable Packaging - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
A new study by global management consultancy Simon-Kucher has concluded that consumers expect sustainable packaging, but are not willing to compromise on

"Germany adds almost 4.59 GWh of battery storage already this year"
#Germany #Batteries #Energy

Germany adds almost 4.59 GWh of battery storage already this year
Analysis by pv magazine shows almost 2.1 million battery storage systems (BESS) are now in operation in Germany. The latest figures for this year are 362,537 systems with a power output of around 2.6 GW and a cumulative storage capacity of 4.59 GWh.

A profile of Weekly Shōnen Jump, Japan's top manga magazine and home to Naruto, which has created a formula for generating hit franchises from young talent (Matt Alt/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09

How Weekly Shōnen Jump Became the World’s Most Popular Manga Factory
The magazine, home to such series as “Naruto” and “One Piece,” has created a formula for coaxing hit franchises out of young talents. The twenty-four-year-old behind “Kagurabachi” may be next. Matt Alt writes.

"Renewables reach record 76% of demand on Australia’s main grid"
#Australia #Renewables #Energy

Renewables reach record 76% of demand on Australia’s main grid
The share of renewables in Australia’s main electricity grid has reached a new high with rooftop and utility-scale solar, wind and hydro combining to deliver 76.4% of electricity demand on Monday.

RIP, Mark Snow: listen to the composer talk about scoring X-Files and more
https://cdm.link/rip-mark-snow/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/music

RIP, Mark Snow: listen to the composer talk about scoring X-Files and more - CDM Create Digital Music
Mark Snow, the mind-bogglingly prolific composer behind scores for Blue Bloods, Smallville, and the X-Files has died at age 78. From TV to film to games, Snow's take on electronic music scoring has left a mark on many of us. Here he is talking about his take on music, and some reflections on that unforgettable X-Files score.

Sources: Lynn Forester de Rothschild is exploring a sale of a ~20% stake in The Economist Group, potentially raising between £200M and £400M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-15/forester-…

Forester de Rothschild Said to Explore Sale of Stake in The Economist Group
Lynn Forester de Rothschild is exploring a sale of a significant minority stake in The Economist Group, marking the first ownership shake-up in a decade at the 182-year-old magazine read by both the political and business elite.

Photos from a Holiday week
#travel #photography
https://

Photos from a Holiday week
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

How Classroom Rituals Help Create Community https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_classroom_rituals_help_create_community?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_co…

How Classroom Rituals Help Create Community
Small practices, repeated regularly and with intentionality, can help students feel a sense of belonging at school.

Less Pain, More Gain - Practising the Piano
#piano #practice

Less Pain, More Gain - Practising the Piano
Ryan Morison, shares his journey from injury caused by a traditional, finger-centric piano technique to a more natural, effortless way of playing.  

How can music companies boost recorded-music sales among older consumers? https://musicandcopyright.wordpress.com/2025/06/26/how-can-mu…

How can music companies boost recorded-music sales among older consumers?
A significant but underutilized market Older consumers, particularly those aged 55 years and above, represent a significant yet underutilized market for recorded-music. While they spend less on new…

What Do I Do After My Songs Are Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered? 🚀
#MusicianTips
https://www.

What Do I Do After My Songs Are Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered?
Your song is recorded, mixed, and mastered—now what? This guide walks you through the next steps: release strategy, live performance setup, marketing, and career growth, with a clear action plan to ensure your music gets heard.

“If I were to strum a full barre-chord voicing for each chord, it would feel too ‘chunky.’ Instead, I do what Nile advised me to do”: Cory Wong on the most important technique you can learn from Nile Rodgers
https://www.

“If I were to strum a full barre-chord voicing for each chord, it would feel too ‘chunky.’ Instead, I do what Nile advised me to do”: Cory Wong on the most important technique you can learn from Nile Rodgers
The kingpin of funky strumming defers to the O.G. – as Wong explains what he learned from the Chic master

Why AI Can’t Make Art (and Probably Never Will) https://lateralaction.com/articles/ai-cant-make-art/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/art,…

Why AI Can’t Make Art (and Probably Never Will)
There’s a lot of noise about AI and creativity right now.

What Happens When Caregivers Dance
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/podcasts/item/what_happens_when_caregivers_dance?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/Doing Good

What Happens When Caregivers Dance
Even just a few minutes of dancing can shift energy, release emotions, and remind us to care for ourselves while we care for others.

Musician Liam Benzvi on taking risks that pay off
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/musician-liam-benzvi-on-taking-risks-that-pay-off/?utm_…

Musician Liam Benzvi on taking risks that pay off – The Creative Independent
Musician Liam Benzvi discusses success, instant gratification, and being in pursuit of what you love.

Writer and artist Jade Song on redefining perfection
#creativity
https://

Writer and artist Jade Song on redefining perfection – The Creative Independent
Writer and artist Jade Song discusses transitioning between mediums, making money from her art, and marveling at the gift of a residency.

Writer Stephanie Wambugu on speaking across generations
#creativity
https://

Writer Stephanie Wambugu on speaking across generations – The Creative Independent
Writer Stephanie Wambugu discusses the conflict of art-world representation, acting as a vessel of human emotion, and resisting trend forecasting.

Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith on valuing community over status – #creativity and #community

Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith on valuing community over status – The Creative Independent
Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith discusses the gift of failure, making small moves, and the enduring wisdom of Sun Ra.

Strange Parables - an #improv #poem
https://m…

Strange Parables - an #improv #poem
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

When You Feel Alone, Try This Practice
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/when_you_feel_alone_try_this_practice?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/MEN…

When You Feel Alone, Try This Practice
Loneliness can be hard to shake, as former U.S. surgeon general Vivek Murthy found. But there are little steps we can take each day to feel more connected.

A Chat with the UnMute Disabled Artist Roster https://sonicstate.com/news/2025/06/24/a-chat-with-the-unmute-disabled-artist-roster/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=…

A Chat with the UnMute Disabled Artist Roster - Creating New Opportunities for Disabled Musicians
Creating New Opportunities for Disabled Musicians

Writer Andrew Aydin on being persistent with your vision
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Writer Andrew Aydin on being persistent with your vision – The Creative Independent
Author Andrew Aydin on having faith in your work, manufacturing lightning bolt moments, and why comics are an inherently positive medium.

Music writer, producer, and podcaster Dylan Tupper Rupert on envisioning alternatives https://thecreativeindependent.com…

Music writer, producer, and podcaster Dylan Tupper Rupert on envisioning alternatives – The Creative Independent
Music writer, producer, and podcaster Dylan Tupper Rupert discusses growing up in the Seattle arts scene, dealing with music industry hierarchy, and imagining the ideal conditions for creativity.

14 Mountain Towns in the U.S. So Beautiful They Feel Like Heaven on Earth
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https://themodernfield.com/best-smal…

14 Mountain Towns in the U.S. So Beautiful They Feel Like Heaven on Earth
We all get that deep urge to swap city noise for the scent of pine. I know I have. Hence, I am always on the search for the best small mountain towns in the US.