Cool stuff: good health, group singing, Gen Alpha Melody, lotta whales.

It's cool inside. 

Ice cream!

He wrote the book on it (Eat Your Ice Cream: Six Simple Rules for a Long and Healthy Life) and it’s great news for hot times. Zeke Emanuel’s instructions are commonsense ideas, with the cherry on top being the inclusion of ice cream:

• Avoid self-destructive risks.
• Talk to people.
• Expand your mind.
• Eat to nourish AND enjoy
• Get your aerobic and strength-building exercise in regularly.
• Sleep.

Clearly, the scoop of joy in these guidelines is that — Yes! Yes! Yes! Ice cream is okay in a healthy diet! The doctor says so.  Full Story >>

Singing is good for you, too.

One-day choirs are popping up all around the globe. The Gaia Music Collective began in Brooklyn during the pandemic to rekindle human connections. It’s grown since, with groups of 100 or more gathering for a day to learn and perform — for themselves — music of Hannah Montana, Wicked, Beyoncé, and many others. “’There’s just something so ineffably spiritual about singing with such a large group of people,’” said one participant. “’I think they call it collective effervescence.’”  Full Story >>

Heard this un?

Chances are you’ve come across the Gen Alpha Melody in recent pop music. Smart, droll Carl Martin has identified a tune that countless artists have used in the last several years, and the repetition is flabbergasting. It’s your music theory lesson of the day.  Full Story >>

Dinnertime for humpbacks.

Since about 2012, supergroups of resurgent humpback whales have been increasingly noted. Photographers and naturalists spotted these 300 whales gathering and feeding off the South Africa coast.  Full Story >> 

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