Happiness and laughter are contagious for good reasons: they can elevate us toward a positive, relaxed state and diminish pain. Foster laughter and you will be more emotionally resilient–making cheerfulness your natural set-point. Read more
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Music and Language Acquisition
A group of researchers from Italy, Chile, Montreal, and the USA (Stanford University) studied 112 newborns that were between 1-5 days-old; they wanted to find out their capacity to recognize common words of their native language.
Gualala, California as Cultural Landscape
The significant story of Gualala, California, between 1863 and 1906, is the industrialization of lumber and the development of a single company town.
O. Platt Williams’s Oral History
O. Platt Williams is a distinguished civil and labor rights activist and co-founder of the Sonoma County chapter of the NAACP. o-platt-williams’s-recorded-interview
Sonoma Stories and the Song Wong Collection
This investigative project focuses on the Song Wong Bourbeau Collection—a gift to the Sonoma County Museum (SCM) from a prominent Chinese American family with roots back to Santa Rosa’s Chinatown, ca. 1877.