It should come as no surprise to anyone that recent research confirms that playing music--which lights up so many different areas of our brain--is a potent force in combatting mental decline as we age. Here's the lay article: https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/this-very-enjoyable-habit-can-lower-your-dementia-risk-for-years-to-come , and here's the research: https://agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jgs.17208 . Play on Macduff.

In chapter four, we expand our definition of music to include visual music. Here is an excellent report from Purdue MFA alum Baxter Chambers on a brief history of Temporal Lighting.

In Chapter 7 we discussed how "in 1997, archaeologists discovered a large number of similar bones from about 400,000 years ago at the bottom of a deep pit in the Sima de los Huesos cave at Atapuerca in Northern Spain." Curiously, similar burial sites have been hard to come by in Africa, but a new discovery extends the time frame for ritual burials in Africa at least back to 100,000 bce. Read about it in National Geographic: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/childs-grave-is-the-oldest-human-burial-found-in-africa . The Journal article can be found here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00805-6.