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@quotesdaily100 These give me frisson, goosebumps and chills, every single time: Every Chopin nocturne, and his piano concertos, Beethoven's 7th Symphony 2nd movement, all of 9th, Schubert's Ave Maria, Grieg piano concerto, Rachmaninoff piano concerto 2 and his Variations on a Theme of Paganini

The reason music gives you chills and what it means: 1. It has a name,Frisson. The chills you feel from music have a scientific name called Frisson. It is a French word meaning aesthetic chills. It causes goosebumps, shivers down your spine and a wave of emotion. All triggered by nothing but sound entering your ears. 2. Not everyone feels it. Only 55% of people on earth experience music chills. The other 45% never feel it at all in their entire life. If you feel it, your brain is literally wired differently from most people around you. It is not dramatic. It is biological. 3. Your brain releases dopamine. When frisson hits, your brain releases dopamine. The same chemical released when you eat your favorite food, when you fall in love with someone, when you win something you worked hard for. Music hijacks the exact same reward system in your brain. 4. It happens at very specific moments in a song. A sudden unexpected key change. When a powerful voice enters out of nowhere. When an instrument joins that you did not expect. When lyrics describe something you personally lived through. Your brain gets surprised and floods you with emotion as a reward for noticing. 5. It is connected to how your brain is built. Scientists at USC discovered that people who feel music chills have more nerve fibers connecting two specific parts of the brain. The auditory cortex which processes sound and the areas that process emotion. More connections between these two areas means deeper and stronger emotional response to music. 6. Sad songs trigger it more than happy songs. Minor chords, slow tempos and falling melodies cause frisson more often than upbeat music. Because your brain processes musical sadness very similarly to real sadness. But in music it feels safe. So your brain allows itself to go deeper into the emotion without fear. 7. Memory makes it stronger. A song you heard during an important moment in your life hits differently forever. Because your brain stores music alongside the emotions you felt when you first heard it. Years later the song plays and the emotion comes back instantly. The music is no longer just sound. It becomes a memory you can hear. 8. Anticipation is more powerful than the moment itself. The chills often begin just before the best part of the song arrives. Not during it. Before it. Your brain predicts the drop, the high note, the key change and rewards itself early just for knowing it is coming. This is called prediction and reward and music is one of the few things that triggers it this strongly. 9. It is directly linked to empathy. In multiple studies, people who experience frisson scored significantly higher in empathy than those who do not. You are not just hearing what the artist made. You are feeling what the artist felt while creating it. Your brain crosses the gap between their emotion and yours through sound alone. 10. It means you have an open personality. Psychologists found that people who feel music chills score extremely high in one specific personality trait called openness to experience. This means deep curiosity about the world, strong imagination, rich inner emotional life and the ability to feel things at a level most people simply cannot access. 11. Live music hits harder than recorded music. The energy of a crowd, the physical vibration of speakers, the presence of the artist. All of these combine to make frisson happen more easily and more intensely at live concerts. Your brain picks up on collective emotion around you and amplifies your own response.

@Rainmaker1973 This looks great to me, however, someone has to explain how all of those very young children are each making a very different dish, with no apparent instruction or adult around. How do they arrive at their levels of competency? Does each child specialize in one dish? How?

Kindergartens in China are increasingly incorporating hands-on cooking, cleaning, and crafting into their curricula to foster independence, responsibility, and confidence in young children. Kids as young as 3–4 years old use specialized mini stoves to prepare food, wash dishes, and perform tasks like sewing and farming.

@Dr_TheHistories Same mysterious barley water was a part of the early Christian practices as well, perhaps originally led by Jesus himself. Great, meticulously researched book called The Immortality Key provides historical detail about the Eleusinian Mysteries. amazon.com/Immortality-Ke…

For 2000 years, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero and Marcus Aurelius all drank the same mysterious barley water at a secret ritual in Greece. Every single one of them came out describing a revelation that permanently changed how they understood life and death. The Eleusinian Mysteries were the most important religious rites in the ancient world, held annually outside Athens for nearly two millennia. At the centre of the ritual was a drink called the kykeon, documented in Greek sources as barley, water and mint. Simple enough. Except that in 1978 Albert Hofmann, the chemist who first synthesised LSD, co-authored a book called The Road to Eleusis arguing that the barley used was infected with ergot, a fungus that grows on grain and contains compounds chemically related to LSD. His hypothesis: that tens of thousands of the greatest minds in ancient history were experiencing a naturally produced psychedelic sacrament and sworn to silence about it. The theory is contested among classicists. Then in 2023 chemical analysis of residues from a sanctuary in Spain associated with similar rites found ergot alkaloids present for the first time. The first direct physical evidence. It received almost no mainstream coverage. © Eats History #drthehistories

@mgreene1414214 @0riettaRose The principal of a school is assessed on graduation rates. Until that changes, kids won't worry about failing anything. If they fail, the principal fails.

@0riettaRose Refuse to read? Don't pass English. Don't pass English, don't graduate. Simple solution but schools won't do it. Schools won't do it because they get paid on volume, not quality. More students = more money. Flunk a student out = lest money.

High school English teacher explains why he crashes out over the most frustrating thing students do:

@luketress The student senate members who dismissed Hillel should be required to take classes in Jewish history, culture, and religion, from rabbis, for every semester they're enrolled until they graduate. Maybe with a culminating semester in Israel.

The New School rejects its student senate’s dismissal of Hillel — “Does not have the authority”

@SlimWiggy @mattvanswol Months? It's been years this cancer has grown.

@mattvanswol They have been steadily weaponizing our kids against us in the public schools that WE PAY FOR for months now. This needs to be our top priority along with immigration going forward. Here's Tucson: x.com/SlimWiggy/stat…

Just so we are ALL CLEAR on what happened today... Educators and school administrators single-handedly CANCELLED SCHOOL for 700,000 North Carolina students... ...INCLUDING MY SON!!! To wave signs around in the street instead. The signs vary from: a) F**K ICE!!! b) Defeat Trump's Agenda c) Trump is a N*ZI d) ICE OUT!!! e) Protect trans kids f) Refuse fascism g) Stop bombing schools DO NOT TELL ME THIS WAS ABOUT KIDS. IT NEVER WAS. This was ADULTS using 700,000 children, INCLUDING MINE, as political leverage against a president they don't like. That is despicable. You know better... DO BETTER.

@MrAmazingBoz @EYakoby Use the Grok button.

Last week it was revealed Hamas is systemically raping Palestinian women in Gaza. Yesterday it was revealed Hamas clerics are raping young Palestinian boys. This morning it was revealed the Islamic Republic is raping female prisoners. Barely a word in the media. Weird.

@david_parker Same reason K12 and higher ed suck.

This is why your healthcare sucks. Most of the money is being used to create fake jobs for parasites.

@SeedOilDsrspctr Rampant in Education, from K12 to higher education.

This, basically everywhere

@athenaeumbc Saluto, ergo sum.

Wow — did we really just hit 200 THOUSAND followers?! Incredible to see how much interest there is to return to the great books of the Western canon. All are welcome to join our read-along! Say hi if you're real 👋

@r0ck3t23 This same principle is true in our K12 education system. Admin and school board make consequential decisions about curriculum that have ruined our schools. All admin should be required to teach and grade alongside teachers in the classroom.

The corporate world built a religion around one lie. That leadership is separable from understanding. That you can run a machine you cannot read. Musk: “At SpaceX, almost all my time is spent on engineering and design.” Not strategy meetings. Not press tours. Not optics. The weeds. Musk: “If you don’t understand something at a detailed level, you cannot make a decision.” If you need someone to translate the problem, you are not the decision-maker. The translator is. You are a rubber stamp with a corner office. We built an entire economy rewarding people who speak in abstractions. Strategy. Synergy. Alignment. Physics does not care about synergy. When the rocket is on the pad, the org chart does not matter. The metallurgy does. If you do not know where the alloy fails, you are not leading. You are guessing with authority. Most executives are operating on secondhand information. Playing telephone with reality. When you delegate the understanding, you forfeit the outcome. They call it micromanagement. It is the opposite. When you understand the work, you know which failures matter and which ones are the price of moving fast. The executive who cannot read the metal panics at every setback. So he punishes it. And the moment you punish failure, your team stops reaching. They do not stop because they are lazy. They stop because they are rational. Nobody takes the shot when missing costs them everything. You do not build rockets with a workforce optimizing for job security. The further you get from the metal, the faster the company rots. The era of the spreadsheet executive is over. The future does not belong to the person with the best summary. It belongs to the one who never needed one.

@rappindawg2012 @FairfaxGOP There's also their policy of having a prayer room in every school, where Muslim students get special privileges that no one else gets, like unlimited passes to use the room, and even more, Friday Jummah prayers where those attending miss at least 45 minutes of class, all excused.

@FairfaxGOP Fairfax school board of libtards allows students to use bathrooms and locker rooms based on their gender identity. Pushes LGBTQ+, Pride Month, Transgender Day and LGBTQ+ themed books in school libraries. The board's stance has faced criticism from parents and community members.

🚨 CAUGHT RED-HANDED: FCPS DOCUMENT CONFIRMS ILLEGAL SECRET VOTE 🚨 For almost a year, the all-Democrat Fairfax County School Board DENIED it. They stonewalled FOIA requests. They refused to answer questions. Their lawyer TESTIFIED UNDER OATH that it didn't happen. But an internal FCPS document just confirmed what they tried to hide: 👉 The School Board voted IN SECRET to create $121,535 "director" jobs for themselves. That's a BLATANT VIOLATION of Virginia's open meetings law. 📌 Here's what they did: Total staff payroll DOUBLED—from $1.2M to $2.2M Positions require only a bachelor's degree Jobs went to DEMOCRAT CAMPAIGN OPERATIVES Kyle McDaniel hired a campaign manager Rachna Sizemore Heizer hired the Vice Chair of the Fairfax County Democrat Committee 📌 Here's what they said: "No comment" FOIA denied Under oath: "It never happened" 📌 Here's the truth: FCPS's own documents say: "The Board approved this action at a closed meeting in February 2025." They lied. They broke the law. They got caught. And while they were voting themselves $121,000 staff positions, teachers were begging for better pay. This is ONE-PARTY RULE in Fairfax County. 🗳️ School Board election: November 2027. SHARE so every Fairfax parent knows what their School Board did in secret! 👇 Source: Fairfax Schools Monitor / Fairfax County Times fairfaxgop.org/internal-fcps-…

@BradleyRHaywood Because in 2025, Trump closed the border.

Hey GOP, I have great news for you—Fairfax County is safer than it’s been in a decade! In 2025, robberies decreased by 20%, non-fatal shootings by 37% and burglaries by 28%. Oh, and murders hit a 10 yr low. Don’t you think the public would feel better if they knew that? Surely you don’t want them to be uninformed and afraid. Right?