Newborns

"Writing in the journal Current Biology, they say the babies are probably trying to form a bond with their mothers by imitating them. The French newborns cried with a rising "accent" while the German babies' cries had a falling inflection. The findings suggest that unborn babies are influenced by the sound of the first language that penetrates the womb. Dr Wermke said: "Newborns are highly motivated to imitate their mother's behavior in order to attract her and hence to foster bonding."

More information about this can be found on the BBC site

Edvard Munch

by painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does

Happiness is Equanimity

"Ultimately, happiness is equanimity. While we all seek to be happy, we need to reduce suffering to get there. Neuroscience offers a biological metaphor: the brain areas most active during happiness, in the left prefrontal cortex, contain the neurons that silence disturbing feelings, allowing us to recover from states of emotional suffering more quickly or be less thrown off balance."

Rudolf Arnheim

"The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points."

Questions

If you had one mole of pennies to divide among all the people in the world, how many dollars would each person receive? Use 7 billion as the population of the Earth

If there were a mole of people evenly distributed over the surface of the Earth, including both land and water, how many square centimeters would be allotted to each person?

Josef Albers

“I’ve handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.”

"I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator."

Geometer