Natalia M.C.

Finanzas. Jazz. Libros. Arte. También anhelo un mejor🇪🇨.

[Scott Brooks @scotti_brooks]

HOW TO RAISE A CHILD WHO RESPECTS YOU WITHOUT FEARING YOU.

AGES O-5: THE AGE OF CONNECTION:

[World Bank Group @WorldBankGroup]

Not all AI requires massive data centers.

"Small AI" solutions running on everyday devices are already helping improve agriculture, health, and education in developing countries.

The Digital Progress & Trends Report 2025 explores how countries can build the foundations for inclusive. https://t.co/Ta4bnj7bAv

[Amazing Physics @amazing_physics]

Night Sky on Mars as seen from NASA Curiosity Rover.

[Yero @Yerocode0]

🚨Elon Musk: “Puede que todavía no sepas qué te apasiona… porque nunca exploraste el mapa completo”

Cuando le preguntan por el sentido de la vida, Elon no habla de meditación ni de “encontrar tu propósito”. Va directo:

“Lee. Lee muchísimo. Construye un terreno accidentado del paisaje del conocimiento. Aprende un poco de muchas cosas.”

La razón más subestimada:

Solo puedes desear lo que has visto.
Si tu menú de opciones se limita a lo que te dieron tus padres, la escuela o el primer trabajo… estás eligiendo a ciegas.
Los libros rompen ese límite.
Son el motor de búsqueda de tu propia vida.

Habla con gente de mundos distintos.
Explora campos que nunca imaginaste.
Luego busca la intersección perfecta:
ser intrínsecamente bueno en algo

que te guste hacerlo de verdad.
Porque el talento solo es una trampa:
puedes ser excelente, ganar dinero… y odiarlo en silencio durante años.

Lee. Amplía el mapa.
El mayor riesgo no es equivocarte de camino…
es nunca haber visto los otros.

[El Acertijo Ok @ElAcertijoOk]

¿El mejor video de la historia? Probablemente.

[𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 @Old_But_Gold50s]

The Sound of Music (1965): When Maria Teaches the Children to See the World Through Music

A room that has remained closed for many years does not become dark because the light has disappeared.

The light is still outside.

The sky is still there.

The only difference is that the door has never been opened.

The "Do-Re-Mi" sequence in The Sound of Music, in which Maria teaches Captain von Trapp's seven children the basic notes of music, is built upon much the same principle.

It is not merely a musical performance.

Nor is it simply a lesson introducing the seven notes of the scale.

What Robert Wise, together with Rodgers and Hammerstein, presents in this sequence is the journey of a teacher helping seven children open the first door through which they begin to see the world with new eyes.

When the song begins, everything remains remarkably still.

The children, having only recently met Maria, retain the reserve shaped by the strict discipline of their household. They listen more than they participate.

Yet the song refuses to remain in one place.

As the melody unfolds, the film itself begins to move.

Rather than confining the number to the drawing room, as in the original Broadway stage production, Robert Wise leads Maria and the children through the streets of Salzburg, across open meadows, beside ancient stone walls, aboard a horse-drawn carriage, past fountains, and finally onto the famous steps of Mirabell Gardens.

The landscape steadily opens before them, but the more profound transformation takes place within the children themselves. At first, they simply follow Maria as they walk, gradually finding the confidence to sing. Before long, those careful steps give way to skipping, spinning and laughter amid the wide open countryside. Each new location therefore marks not only another stage in the song but another stage in the quiet awakening of their hearts.

The camera, consequently, does far more than showcase the beauty of Salzburg.

It allows the audience to witness the children slowly opening themselves to life.

Maria's way of teaching music is equally central to that transformation.

She never asks the children to memorise abstract principles of music theory.

Instead, every note is linked to an image drawn from everyday life.

From a sunbeam and a little deer to a cup of tea and a sewing needle, familiar things become part of the lesson itself.

The seven notes therefore cease to be abstract symbols.

They become things that can be seen, imagined and felt.

Maria is not merely teaching the children how to sing correctly.

She is helping them discover that music already exists within the ordinary beauty of daily life.

From that moment onwards, music is no longer simply a subject to be learned.

It becomes a way of seeing the world.

That transformation is also reflected in the rhythm of the film itself.

As the melody grows increasingly lively, the pace of the editing becomes quicker. The children's movements become lighter, while gentle transitions carry the audience effortlessly from one location to another. Music, camera movement and physical movement no longer exist as separate elements. They merge into a single flowing current, allowing the audience to feel joy spreading with every step Maria and the children take together.

By the time they arrive at the steps of Mirabell Gardens, that journey has reached its natural fulfilment.

Maria and the seven children stand together, singing each note of the scale in perfect succession.

The image forms a subtle contrast with the life the children once knew.

Before Maria arrived, they too stood in orderly lines.

But then it was in obedience to commands and strict discipline.

Now they still stand side by side.

Yet every step follows the rhythm of the music, and every voice rises from genuine delight.

Outwardly, the formation appears much the same.

Its meaning has been completely transformed.

When the sequence comes to its conclusion, what remains with the audience is not the fact that the children have learned the notes Do, Re and Mi. What endures is Robert Wise's portrayal of music gradually changing the way they perceive the world. Salzburg is still the same city it was at the beginning of the song, yet the meadows, the fountains and the steps of Mirabell Gardens all seem to possess a new vitality because the children now experience them differently.

Perhaps this is also what Robert Wise, together with Rodgers and Hammerstein, wished to express through "Do-Re-Mi". Maria does not bring light into the children's lives, just as the person who opens a door does not create the sky beyond it. She simply opens that door so they may recognise the beauty that has always surrounded them. By the end of the song, the audience no longer remembers having learned the seven notes of the musical scale. Instead, they remember the moment when seven children rediscovered the joy and innocence that had quietly remained within them all along.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

An observatory in Chile is taking a decade-long timelapse of the sky over the Southern Hemisphere to help scientists measure the properties of a mysterious cosmic force.

It will help astronomers discover new galaxies and other, rarer objects. https://t.co/BZB4KLIDBG

[The New York Times @nytimes]

From @TheAthleticFC: Ecuador beat Germany to reach the World Cup knock-out stage. Gonzalo Plata's goal sparked scenes of delirium from thousands of Ecuadorians inside the stadium. "And they absolutely deserved it. A breathless game." https://t.co/jLmxEt7WV7

[Jessica Meir @Astro_Jessica]

There is a lot going on right now on the @Space_Station, but fortunately we are all safe and witnessed a spectacular southern aurora show yesterday thanks to a recent solar event.

[𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 @Old_But_Gold50s]

Both of them standing there singing is like a scene from a fairy tale. So beautiful.
💝Sarah Brightman & Andrea Bocelli - Time to Say Goodbye (1998)

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

[NASA @NASA]

What’s in the night sky for May?

In this month’s episode of “What’s Up,” see how to spot the Eta Aquarid meteor shower, find out when we’ll get a blue moon, and learn more about a celestial meetup between the Moon and Venus.

Happy skywatching! https://t.co/2VCImgLyGD

[𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 @Old_But_Gold50s]

All aboard for a spectacular musical journey with Miniatur Wunderland 🚂🎶

From the heart of Hamburg, where imagination meets precision, this tiny world invites us to travel through landscapes, cities, and stories — all set to a soundtrack of wonder. ✨

[𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 @Old_But_Gold50s]

My Way - Frank Sinatra

#piano #franksinatra #myway #balladmusic

[𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 @Old_But_Gold50s]

River flows in you 🎶

[Love Music @khnh80044]

I can't believe this was recorded 44 years ago, no autotune, no playbacks, just pure talent🔥

[Somos Cosmos @SomosCosmos_]

Video de la reentrada a la atmósfera de la nave espacial Orion de Artemis 1.

25 minutos comprimidos a poco más de un minuto.

Crédito: NASA

[DW Español @dw_espanol]

🟢 Elon Musk prepara la salida a bolsa de SpaceX, que lo hará el primer billonario del mundo

La empresa aeroespacial de Elon Musk presentó documentación preliminar para salir a bolsa, en lo que podría convertirse en una oferta histórica, potencialmente la mayor jamás realizada y que podría convertir a su fundador en el primer billonario del mundo. La oferta, que podría concretarse en junio, valoraría a SpaceX en torno a 1,5 billones de dólares, casi el doble de su valoración en diciembre, cuando algunos accionistas minoritarios vendieron participaciones.

[𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 @Old_But_Gold50s]

Here’s a marimba band of South African schoolchildren playing his joyous 'Gloria'. 🎉