Rarely Seen Paintings By J.R.R. Tolkien Portray A Lush 'Lord Of The Rings' Landscape

Rarely Seen Paintings by J.R.R. Tolkien Portray a Lush 'Lord of the Rings' Landscape

The train to the plane, Zhaoxu Sui (because)

In a new paper, a team of philosophers and psychologists at Johns Hopkins University claims to have finally settled an ancient debate: whether you can actually hear the sound of silence.

In a mind-bending conclusion, they found that you absolutely can.

(via Scientists Discover That You Can Hear Silence)

Dogs probably dream about their owners while they sleep, a Clinical and Evolutionary Psychologist at Harvard Medical School has said.

The World Health Organization is recognizing loneliness and social isolation as a priority health problem as more and more people suffer across the world.

Data from the University of Michigan's National Poll on Healthy Aging showed loneliness among 50- to 80-year-olds had increased from 27% in October 2018 to 56% in June 2020, at the height of pandemic-era restrictions.

It is also another side effect of Covid-19 that worsens the situation further.

(via Loneliness is at epidemic levels and it's killing Americans)

Times Square at the intersection of 7th Avenue and W 47th Street, New York, 1990. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.