May 2011
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“Whatever we call it—mind, character, soul—we like to think we possess something...”
– Susanna Kaysen in Girl, Interrupted (via notsocerebral)
April 2011
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The Miss Piggy Calendar: Annie Hall (1982)
ilovehotdogs:
From the 1982 Miss Piggy calendar where she and Kermy take on Great Lovers of the Silver Screen. I don’t think there’s a man or frog any cuter that could play Woody Allen. (via)
Who Gets Autism? →
Librarians: Masters of the info universe - CNN.com →
“Librarians are the secret masters of the universe. They control information. Never piss one off.”
“The humiliation I go through when I think of my past can only be described as...”
– Franz Wright
via @CaterinaSky
(via metaconscious)
a torn-bread awkwardness.: The neuroscience of... →
tornbread:
Absolutely mortifies me whenever I think about it long enough.
Here’s a snippet from Patrick Haggard’s review article published in Nature, December 2008:
Nevertheless, the experience of making a voluntary action is clearly different from that of an equivalent passive movement that is applied…
“You’re not a real fMRI neuroscientist until you’ve scanned monks.”
– Scott Huettel, director of the Center for Neuroeconomic Studies at Duke, on neuroscientists’ fixation with meditation and monks (via tornbread)
Not in your wildest dreams →
Japanese Gravity Marimba Plays Bach In An Ancient... →
Watchseawitchery:
I started out clicking strategically… and by the end was just wildly clicking and dancing in my chair.
biancavirina:
CLICK THE SQUARES.
THE WHOLE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS.
THIS THIS THIS THIS!
“Look, I just don’t get fortysomethings. They all seem either defeated and...”
– -somethings
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Antiepileptic Drugs for Fibromyalgia Reviewed →
“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of...”
– Mark Twain
(via scienceisbeauty)
Mood Manipulation is not Mind Control | Science... →
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“Such findings open up a fascinating prospect: perhaps many patients whom doctors...”
– Scratching an itch through the scalp to the brain : The New Yorker
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Cannabis-like drugs could kill pain without the... →
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“No one likes to impose on other peoples lives. Well, I shouldn’t say no...”
– SEEKING EQUILIBRIUM: HELP IS A FOUR LETTER WORD
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“Sonoran is a godsend.”
– Sonoran: The next Helvetica: idsgn (a design blog)
I Got .99 Problems, But Pricing Ain’t One. →
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Women Are Better Connected... Neurally →
