In Pure Spirit

Sisters from a closed order dating back to 6th century win contract for a new album of Gregorian chant

Image by Conor Dupre-Neary via Flickr Today has some good news for Mother Earth. Google, the search and ads site, has been trying to be carbon neutral since 2007. Today they’ve signed a big deal – a 20-year deal, in fact – on green Power Purchasing. Come July 30th they’ll be buying clean energy from [...]

Image by rchughtai — “not very active” via Flickr Sian Barr, a student veterinary nurse, has carried out research on sick cats being treated at a vet’s sugery. Miss Barr, a recent graduate with a first class honours, concluded that yoga medication music can help. Cats become less stressed when they listen to the music. [...]

Everyone agrees it is a masterpiece. But who painted The Virgin of the Rocks – Leonardo or his students? Jonathan Jones joins the National Gallery on an epic quest to find out

Browse our interactive guide to the Virgin of the Rocks

I think this is beautiful. Do you agree? A Holocaust survivor, his daughter and his grandchildren visit concentration camps around Europe. What do they do? They dance to Gloria Gaynor‘s “I Will Survive“. This video has actually been around for half a year but is quickly going viral now the blogs have caught wind of [...]

A gathering of Peruvian shamans in Lima resulted in self-proclaimed master Juan Osco predicting Spain will win the World Cup. However, not all the shamans who took part in the colourful ceremony agreed and a number of senior shamans came out in favour of the Netherlands. This isn’t the first time Osco, sometimes known as [...]