The Sheffield-based record label Another Timbre has now released six CDs of music by Linda Catlin Smith. The most recent, Flowers Of Emptine...

Study suggests human brain development has four pivotal ‘turning points’ at around the ages of nine, 32, 66 and 83 Scientists have identified five major “epochs” of human brain development in one of the most comprehensive studies to date of how neural wiring changes from infancy to old age. The study, based on the brain scans of nearly 4,000 people aged under one to 90, mapped neural connections and how they evolve during our lives. This revealed five broad phases, split up by four pivotal “turning points” in which brain organisation moves on to a different trajectory, at around the ages of nine, 32, 66 and 83 years. Continue reading...

A few months ago, I wrote something about two favourite records,  A Venetian Coronation 1595  and  Venetian Vespers . That post turned into ...