# art education (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover art education. Page: Feed: --- ## [How does gravity really work?](https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/2026/07/26/how-does-gravity-really-work/) _2026-07-26 · New England Blogger · KaiserScience_ How does gravity in relativity really work? What s wrong with the space-is-like-a-rubber-sheet analogy? and Well, to be fair, the rubber-sheet analogy successfully communicates one profound idea: Mass changes geometry. Geometry influences motion. That is Einstein s central insight. Instead of saying, The Sun exerts an invisible force, Einstein says, The Sun changes the geometry of spacetime,… ## [A better way to return to the moon](https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/2026/05/18/a-better-way-to-return-to-the-moon/) _2026-05-18 · New England Blogger · KaiserScience_ Musk s return to the moon plan still seems dangerously over complicated. Is there any easier way to get humans safely back on the moon, much faster, with far fewer launches? I d love to get an analysis of this from someone good with Kerbal or similar software. I worked this idea out over time with Claude Continue reading ## [Our Quest for Unification Theories of Everything](https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/2026/03/15/quest-unification-theories-everything/) _2026-03-15 · New England Blogger · KaiserScience_ For more than four centuries, physics has been animated by a single powerful idea: that the bewildering diversity of nature arises from a very small set of simple principles. We call the project to uncover these simple ideas, unification. And the remarkable fact is that time and again, the history of physics has rewarded those Continue reading ## [Importance of art education](https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/2026/01/24/importance-of-art-education/) _2026-01-24 · New England Blogger · KaiserScience_ Why is teaching art intrinsically important to being human? Some would have us believe that we should have art education in our schools because it “improves neuroplasticity,” or “develops pattern recognition,” or worse, correlates with higher test scores. To some extent all of that may be true. Yet if art education were to be defended Continue reading ## [What are broken symmetries?](https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/what-are-broken-symmetries/) _2026-01-07 · New England Blogger · KaiserScience_ Symmetry is an important concept for understanding how our universe works. Symmetry lets us see what stays the same when certain conditions change. Symmetries are powerful because they reveal deep patterns in nature. They allow us to make predictions. Many basic laws of nature e.g. conservation of energy and of momentum arise from Continue reading ## [Resources: South Asian, SWANA, and East Asian Music Theory Treatise Bibliographies & Timelines](https://silpayamanant.wordpress.com/2026/01/06/resources-resources_music-theory-treatise-bibliographies-timelines/) _2026-01-06 · Jon Silpayamanant - โจนาทาน ศิลปยามานันท์ · Mae Mai_ Last year I started compiling a bibliography and timeline for music treatises in South Asia and the SWANA (Southwest Asia & North Africa) regions. Each currently has 300+ entries apiece and span at least three millennia. This year I started working on a resource page for East Asian treatises. It’s currently private but will go … Continue reading Resources: South Asian, SWANA, and East Asian Music… ## [Native Americans in New England](https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/2025/12/07/native-americans-in-new-england/) _2025-12-07 · New England Blogger · KaiserScience_ When did the ancestors of native Americans arrive in what we now call New England? Their earliest confirmed presence in New England is about 12,000–13,000 years ago (10,000–11,000 BCE.) This is when the last Ice Age was ending and the glaciers that once covered New England had recently retreated. There are contested hints of human Continue reading ## [Why is music education important](https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/2025/11/22/why-is-music-education-important/) _2025-11-22 · New England Blogger · KaiserScience_ Why is music intrinsically important to being human? Every year I read yet another article trying to persuade us that we should have music education in our schools because it “improves neuroplasticity,” or “develops pattern recognition,” or my personal favorite (sarcasm intended) “correlates with higher test scores.” I do not deny any of Continue reading ## [Regions of Massachusetts: Sudbury, Assabet and Concord river watershed and the Nashoba Valley](https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/massachusetts-sudbury-assabet-concord-nashoba-valley/) _2025-10-26 · New England Blogger · KaiserScience_ Regions of Massachusetts: Sudbury, Assabet and Concord river watershed and the Nashoba Valley. This area extends from part of the area here shown as the northeast, into part of the MetroWest region. Nashoba Valley is a commonly used regional name in north-central Massachusetts around the Route 2 and interstate 495 area. To be sure, it Continue reading ## [Mapping slave orchestras and ensembles of enslaved musicians.](https://silpayamanant.wordpress.com/2025/10/25/mapping-slave-orchestras-and-ensembles-of-enslaved-musicians/) _2025-10-25 · Jon Silpayamanant - โจนาทาน ศิลปยามานันท์ · Mae Mai_ As I'm compiling a bibliography of primary sources about orchestras and ensembles of enslaved musicians I've decided to map their locations. ## [Fast, secure international transfers (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/5wPkeTXTFAfM) _2025-10-25 · **Sponsored**_ Bank transfer, cash pickup, mobile wallet — low fees and real-time tracking ## [“\[T\]he evolution of the orchestra was brought to a standstill”](https://silpayamanant.wordpress.com/2025/08/28/the-evolution-of-the-orchestra-was-brought-to-a-standstill/) _2025-08-28 · Jon Silpayamanant - โจนาทาน ศิลปยามานันท์ · Mae Mai_ “There is a landmark moment in which the evolution of the orchestra was brought to a standstill.” William Bolcom wrote in his 2013 “The Future of the Orchestra.” Later in the piece, discussing the historical exclusion of the saxophone in orchestras: “This exclusivity goes against the vernacular part of the orchestra’s history, made up as … Continue reading “\[T\]he evolution of the orchestra was… ## [Addressing the housing affordability crisis](https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/addressing-the-housing-affordability-crisis/) _2025-08-01 · New England Blogger · KaiserScience_ “Housing affordability is a shared problem that is getting worse across the country: 80 percent of Americans living in rural communities believe housing affordability is getting worse in their community, while 72 percent of residents in urban areas feel the same. This sense is shared across all demographics, regardless of partisan identification, race, age, gender, Continue reading ## [Geothermal energy advances](https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/geothermal-energy-advances/) _2025-07-24 · New England Blogger · KaiserScience_ Article archive for students from They’re using the techniques honed by oil and gas to find near-limitless clean energy beneath our feet, CNN, 7/22/2025 Deep beneath Utah’s desert soil, an oil drill bored through the Earth at a blistering pace earlier this spring. Gnarly looking drill bits tore through granite at around 300 feet Continue reading ## [ARTICLE: Celebrate Black History Month in music by traveling back to the 6th century](https://silpayamanant.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/article-celebrate-black-history-month-in-music-by-traveling-back-to-the-6th-century/) _2025-02-04 · Jon Silpayamanant - โจนาทาน ศิลปยามานันท์ · Mae Mai_ Black History Month may be a creation of the USA, but why not go further out and further back – much further back? Jon Silpayamanant takes us back to Saint Yared in Ethiopia in the 6th century for a ride through the centuries that could transform some of your ideas about music history. I’ve chattered about my … Continue reading ARTICLE: Celebrate Black History Month in music by traveling back to… ## [“Composing Heterophony: Arranging and Adapting Global Musics for Intercultural Ensembles”](https://silpayamanant.wordpress.com/2024/12/18/composing-heterophony-arranging-and-adapting-global-musics-for-intercultural-ensembles/) _2024-12-18 · Jon Silpayamanant - โจนาทาน ศิลปยามานันท์ · Mae Mai_ My paper, “Composing Heterophony: Arranging and Adapting Global Musics for Intercultural Ensembles,” went live last week in Intersections: Canadian Journal of Music/Revue canadienne de musique (Vol 41, No. 1. Part of “Other Soundings,” guest-edited by Jonathan Goldman). This “Other Soundings” issue functioned as a sort of “proceedings” for the “Towards a history and a transcultural … Continue… ## [ARTICLE: From Ancient Greek to Znameny Chant, a world beyond Western notation](https://silpayamanant.wordpress.com/2024/08/27/article-from-ancient-greek-to-znameny-chant-a-world-beyond-western-notation/) _2024-08-28 · Jon Silpayamanant - โจนาทาน ศิลปยามานันท์ · Mae Mai_ Thanks again to Peter Kirn of Create Digital Media (CDM) Read the full piece here: https://cdm.link/2024/08/from-ancient-greek-to-znameny-chant-a-world-beyond-western-notation/ Read the full piece here: https://cdm.link/2024/08/from-ancient-greek-to-znameny-chant-a-world-beyond-western-notation/