October 2011
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Modeselektor feat. Miss Platinum - Berlin
Soulful...
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Start where you are.
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“There are impossible scribblings in nature written neither by men nor...”
– Roger Caillois, The Writing of Stones
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“Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. Every seed destroys its...”
– Florida Scott-Maxwell
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The Thing That Discovers Itself →
How many lives have come to pass on this planet? An estimated one hundred billion human beings have existed. But we are just one species of roughly two million that are known. Many more have yet to be undiscovered. The National Science Foundation’s “Tree of Life” project estimates that there could be between five and one hundred million species present today. Then there are the extinct. One...
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“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.”
– Robert Frost
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In-Browser Dream Machine →
The dreamachine (or dream machine) is a stroboscopic flicker device that produces visual stimuli. Artist Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs’s “systems adviser” Ian Sommerville created the dreamachine after reading William Grey Walter’s book, The Living Brain.
A dreamachine is “viewed” with the eyes closed: the pulsating light stimulates the optical nerve and...
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Floex - Petr Parler
A refreshing hybrid of IDM...
rb919 asked: It makes me feel nice.. knowing that you exist : ) Brilliance abounds here..
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Willingness to lie manipulated with magnets
Magnetic pulses applied to a specific region of the frontal cortex can influence peoples’ willingness to lie spontaneously or tell the truth, according to a new study by researchers from Estonia.
The findings, published recently in the journal Behavioural Brain Research, suggest that manipulations of brain activity could be an effective way of obtaining truthful responses from defendants...
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"We become aware of the void as we fill it."
Haunted by memories I can’t remember. Falling asleep this way is always torture.
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Non Omnis Moriar
“I shall not wholly die.” — Horace
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Habits form when brainwaves slow down
Habits may be difficult to change, but now at least we have an insight into how they form.
When a group of neurons fire simultaneously, the activity appears as a brainwave. Different brainwave-frequencies are linked to different tasks in the brain.
To track how brainwaves change during learning, Ann Graybiel and Mark Howe at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology used electrodes to analyse...
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Spies could hide messages in gene-modified...
Forget invisible ink or lemon juice – spies can now send messages hidden in genetically engineered bacteria. The new method, dubbed steganography by printed arrays of microbes (SPAM), uses a collection of Escherichia coli strains modified with fluorescent proteins that glow in a range of seven colours.
Each character of the message is encoded using two colours, creating 49 possible combinations –...
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“If therapy imagines its task to be that of helping people cope (and not...”
– James Hillman
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“There is a secret love hiding in each problem.”
– James Hillman
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Apparat - Candil De La Calle
It’s taking...
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“The universe is always speaking to us. … Sending us little messages, causing...”
– Nancy Thayer (via thakate)
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Solar Flare Could Unleash Nuclear Holocaust Across...
Forget about the 2012 Mayan calendar, comet Elenin or the Rapture. The real threat to human civilization is far more mundane, and it’s right in front of our noses. If Fukushima has taught us anything, it’s that just one runaway meltdown of fissionable nuclear material can have wide-ranging and potentially devastating consequences for life on Earth. To date, Fukushima has already...
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“It ended a few feet from where he sat. The sea, broad and vast, with all its...”
– Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (via pragmatica)
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Sunspot 1302: It's Big. It's Bad. And It's Coming... →
Behemoth Sunspot 1302 has been active with flares, two X-class and three M-class flares, and it’s rotating into an Earth-directed orientation
What some are calling a “once in a lifetime” solar storm…
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Cancer drug trial halted in UK for being too... →
ideasandopinions:
The trail of a new drug for prostate cancer was halted in the UK because the results were too good.
Doctors at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London concluded that it would have been unethical not to offer it to all 922 cancer patients on the trial after the drug was shown to ease pain and cause only minor side-effects, The (London) Sunday Telegraph.
One-sided initiations.
Things I do not like.
Circadian Rhythm
I have never been on a 24 hour clock. I find I naturally am alert for 18 to 20 hours, and if left to my own devices, my sleep schedule will shift around the clock until it eventually circles back to where it started. In the midst of a lot of activity I find myself wishing we had longer days. I could really use a few more hours tacked onto mine.
How long do you find yourself naturally awake? Do...
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“The heart in the beast is not your heart only: it is a microcosmic sun, a cosmos...”
– James Hillman
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WatchJill Bolte Taylor’s powerful stroke of insight
Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions — motion, speech, self-awareness — shut down one by one. An astonishing story.
“Step to the right of your left hemisphere and find this peace. We have the power to choose, moment to...
No longer looking behind, nor looking ahead.
One cannot change the past, nor chase the future, for all our plans and hopes are only possibilities in the mind. We must steadily walk forward, one step at a time.
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