You may live longer! Researchers in Britain found that people who go to museums, the theater and the opera were less likely to die in the study period than those who didn’t. Read all about it here. Maria Cramer / New York Times
Fun fact: Tardegrade by Anne Herbst has spent hundreds of hours in our gallery, and listen to this: It is virtually impossible kill this animal. You can freeze it, boil it, crush it, zap it with radiation, and deprive it of food and water—for years!—and it will wiggle back to life. We are pretty sure that this particular gallery tardegrade is immortal.