April 2010
114 posts
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Watchimogen heap is coming to dc - i need a date!
“The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams,...”
– ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (via justbesplendid)
“Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am...”
– Margaret Atwood (via love documents) (via quote-book) (via blankbook) (via booklover)
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient...”
– ~Theodore Geisel (via justbesplendid)
Watchmaking them sweat, bobby long at jammin java, april 28, 2010
yes, that is me telling him to let the record company sweat a bit waiting for him!
The neural basis of love as a subliminal prime
fuckyeahneuroscience:
section5:
Mapped brain activities for love compared to passion shown on lateral views of the fiducial left and right side of the brain. Time courses, averaged over prime type were extracted for the significant regions between love and passion contrasts and are shown for the angular gyrus and fusiform gyrus. // Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Throughout the ages, love...
Oh. Well, then I shall write to the lead singer of...
Vyvyan: [takes part of his sleeve, sticks it in the top of the vodka bottle] It’s funny, but being ill makes me lose my usual tolerant and easy-going approach to communal living. [lights the Molotov cocktail, throws it across the hall, where it explodes] [The wall between Neil and Rick is mostly gone. Vyvyan walks in.] Rick: Oh, well, how ruddy considerate, Vyvyan. Thank you very much! ...
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary...”
– ~Hans Hofmann (via justbesplendid)
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive....”
– ~Attributed to Howard Thurman (via justbesplendid)
“Magnets work through a physical principle called “magic.”
– http://twitter.com/FakeScience
“Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.”
– Victoria Holt (via kari-shma)
“Bad artists copy. Great artists steal.”
– Pablo Picasso (via justbesplendid)
Why Is Coffee Addictive?
this is just all kinds of awesome and hilarious!
fuckyeahneuroscience:
fakescience:
Bobby Long Live 2 PM EST Under WXPN.org click... →
“It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop”
– Confucious
“When things go wrong, you’ll find they usually go on getting worse for some...”
– C.S. Lewis (via kari-shma) (via confashion) (via booklover)
“It’s all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through...”
– Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (via libraryland) (via booklover)
Multipolar neuron diagram in cross stitch by... →
booklover:
reveillerlimagination:
I finished this last night at about midnight and stared at the last sentence for an age. ‘I am haunted by humans’. The Book Thief slept under my pillow last night, as most books I finish late at night do. They don’t usually whisper to me while I’m sleeping, but this one did.
Watchi wish ian could sing me to sleep tonight
Neuroscience Art Gallery: Cats Painted in the... →
fuckyeahneuroscience:
- Louis Wain, 1860-l939
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“Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a sequence of...”
– Charlotte Gray
“Never let your past dictate who you are, but let it be a part of who you will...”
– Johnny Magaa (via poeticprinciple) (via popcornandpretty) (via booklover)
“Porthos dreams of being a bear, and you want to shatter those dreams by saying...”
– Finding Neverland (2004) (via findingsaraland) (via booklover)
Genetic Breakthrough Reveals Differences Between... →
Until now it was assumed that the human genome, or “book of life”, is largely the same for everyone, save for a few spelling differences in some of the words. Instead, the findings suggest that the book contains entire sentences, paragraphs or even whole pages that are repeated any number of times.
The findings mean that...
