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Belief is for the most part lack of imagination.You are not so smart

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11/18/11--07:51: anarchaia!: Leggevo giorni fa come Hugo Lindgren, il direttore del New York Times... (chan 1523686)

anarchaia!: Leggevo giorni fa come Hugo Lindgren, il direttore del New York Times...:

anarchaia:

Leggevo giorni fa come Hugo Lindgren, il direttore del New York Times Magazine, quando nel 1997 fu assunto dalla rivista e mise per la prima volta piede nel nuovo ufficio, trovò nella bacheca del direttore uscente, Kurt Andersen, che era appena stato licenziato, un foglio con un elenco di…

11/18/11--07:57: "The supernatural is the natural not yet understood." (chan 1523686)

“The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.”

- Elbert Hubbard (via hypersexualgirl)

11/20/11--02:45: kordeliamoonstone: Succhiare il midollo della vita, non significa strozzarsi con l’osso; C’è un... (chan 1523686)

kordeliamoonstone:

Succhiare il midollo della vita, non significa strozzarsi con l’osso; C’è un tempo per il coraggio e un tempo per la cautela…
e il vero uomo sa come distinguerli. (L’attimo fuggente)

11/20/11--02:45: kordeliamoonstone: questa è arte (chan 1523686)

kordeliamoonstone:

questa è arte

11/20/11--03:14: aperfectdayelise: Gilles Deleuze, Abecedaire (chan 1523686)

aperfectdayelise:

Gilles Deleuze, Abecedaire

11/20/11--07:18: Brain Parasite Directly Alters Brain Chemistry (chan 1523686)

Brain Parasite Directly Alters Brain Chemistry:

Research shows infection by the brain parasite Toxoplasma gondii, found in 10-20 per cent of the UK’s population, directly affects the production of dopamine, a key chemical messenger in the brain.

11/20/11--07:21: A Brief Guide to Embodied Cognition: Why You Are Not Your Brain (chan 1523686)

A Brief Guide to Embodied Cognition: Why You Are Not Your Brain

11/21/11--03:24: Heilung, die von innen kommt (chan 1523686)

Heilung, die von innen kommt

11/22/11--02:14: ". We would never say, ‘This person is a great worker! He’s drunk all the time!’ yet we continue to..." (chan 1523686)

“. We would never say, ‘This person is a great worker! He’s drunk all the time!’ yet we continue to celebrate people who sacrifice sleep for work.”

- Sleep deficit: the performance killer. A conver… [Harv Bus Rev. 2006] - PubMed - NCBI (via tostoini)

11/22/11--02:14: sciencecenter: Amnesic cellist forgets everything, still... (chan 1523686)

sciencecenter:

Amnesic cellist forgets everything, still remembers how to play his own instrument

This is a pretty incredible story. In 2005, a 62-year-old man was diagnosed with herpes encephalitis, an infection of the brain which destroyed his medial temporal lobes, and with them his explicit memory. He was left with retrograde amnesia (forgetting events in the past) as well as anteretrograde amnesia (losing the ability to form new memories). The really fascinating part comes next, though:

Doctors made their discovery when they tested PM’s ability to recall musical information and found he could identify the scales, rhythms and intervals of pieces they played him. The man went on to score normally on a standard test for musical memory.

But it was later tests that surprised doctors most, when the cellist showed he could learn new pieces of music, even though he failed to remember simple information, such as the layout of his flat, who his doctors were and what medicines he should take.

The scientists conclude that musical memory must be stored elsewhere in the brain. This explanation is boosted by cases of Alzheimer’s- or stroke-induced memory loss in which patients could still recall musical memories.

11/22/11--02:16: nevver: Drowning Starving (chan 1523686)

nevver:

Drowning Starving

11/22/11--12:10: limoncellomusings: I know I’ve posted this before, but it makes... (chan 1523686)

limoncellomusings:

I know I’ve posted this before, but it makes me very upset this only comes in magnets and notepads

11/23/11--12:27: mymedspace: Heart & lungs. When medicine becomes a really... (chan 1523686)

mymedspace:

Heart & lungs. When medicine becomes a really important part of your life you see it everywhere even in the most simple and common things. (:

11/24/11--15:06: Go Figure: Why does every person need 200kg of steel a year? (chan 1523686)

Go Figure: Why does every person need 200kg of steel a year?

11/24/11--23:21: Photo (chan 1523686)

11/26/11--02:45: newyorker: The images of eyes, unblinking and the size of... (chan 1523686)

newyorker:

The images of eyes, unblinking and the size of buildings, stared down from the slum on a hill - Rio de Janeiro’s oldest favela, Morro da Providência - and into the heart of the city. They emerged mysteriously, in the summer of 2008, not long after three young men from the community were murdered. The Brazilian Army and a powerful narco-mafia were implicated, and, when the news broke, residents of the favela rioted. For years, they had been living in near total social isolation; taxis did not go up the hill, nor did ambulances, not even the police. Half a dozen buses were destroyed during the riots, but afterward an uneasy calm took hold, and that is when the eyes began to appear.

- Raffi Khatchadourian writes about the street artist JR and his global experiment to help people be seen [subscription required]. Above, a photograph by JR from the series “Women Are Heroes.”

11/26/11--06:02: Photo (chan 1523686)

11/27/11--09:50: Forum60sec: A Misery Index, Daniel KahnemanNobel Prize winning... (chan 1523686)

Forum60sec: A Misery Index, Daniel Kahneman

Nobel Prize winning Psychologist Daniel Kahneman thinks governments should focus on reducing misery, rather than promoting happiness. He argues that because misery is easier to measure than happiness, governments would be in a better position to identify and provide solutions to things that really ail their societies like mental illness, unemployment and even long commutes.

11/29/11--07:00: nevver: Everything is OK (chan 1523686)

nevver:

Everything is OK

11/29/11--07:01: "Ci accontentiamo di qualunque emozione ormai, perché c’è crisi pure nei sentimenti." (chan 1523686)

“Ci accontentiamo di qualunque emozione ormai, perché c’è crisi pure nei sentimenti.”

- (via ragazzaccia)