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Apocalyptic Dioramas by Thomas Doyle

Wed, 29 May 2013 23:04:07 -0400

Apocalyptic Dioramas by Thomas Doyle

Bikes in Berlin

Sun, 05 May 2013 06:22:55 -0400

Bikes in Berlin

Street art in Barcelona (at Barcelona)

Wed, 01 May 2013 14:48:07 -0400

Street art in Barcelona (at Barcelona)

Sunset over London (at Level39)

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:51:22 -0400

Sunset over London (at Level39)

Amsterdam

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:24:03 -0400

Amsterdam

science-junkie: The Psychology of Music

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 02:44:14 -0500

science-junkie:

The Psychology of Music

npr: One of the best ways to figure out how parts of the brain...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:31:19 -0500

npr:

One of the best ways to figure out how parts of the brain work is to study people who have damage in those specific areas. Take a patient known as SM, a middle-aged woman with a rare condition called Urbach-Wiethe disease that has damaged the amygdala on both sides of her brain.

A few years ago, SM told Justin Feinstein, then a graduate student at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, that she’d never felt fear, even when she’d been confronted by a knife-wielding assailant.

Feinstein put her claim to the test. His group had SM handle a snake, took her on a tour of a haunted house and showed her scenes from scary movies like The Shining. SM was unfazed.

But another University of Iowa researcher, neuroscientist John Wemmie, had a different test for SM: breathing carbon dioxide. In people without brain damage, exposure to high levels of carbon dioxide evokes fear and a hunger for air. In some, it can even set off a panic attack.

From: What Makes You Feel Fear?

Credit: Warner Bros./Photofest

helenadagmar: Adrienne in the cattails. Barryville, NY.

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:30:53 -0500

helenadagmar:

Adrienne in the cattails. Barryville, NY.

nevver: Fail Whale

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:56:10 -0500

nevver:

Fail Whale

evangotlib: shortformblog: Today in hackings originating from...

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 02:12:48 -0500

evangotlib:

shortformblog:

Today in hackings originating from China: The New York Times. The hacking incident began after The Times started working on this story about Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao’s fortune. Every Times employee had their corporate password stolen, and 53 employees had their personal computers infiltrated, mostly outside of the office. So yeah, kind of a big story.

Jeebus…read the article. This is a big story.

smorganwhite: #sparkle

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 02:08:09 -0500

smorganwhite:

#sparkle

"Right now, there are brilliant students from all over the world sitting in classrooms at our top..."

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:38:11 -0500

“Right now, there are brilliant students from all over the world sitting in classrooms at our top universities. They’re earning degrees in the fields of the future, like engineering and computer science. But once they finish school, once they earn that diploma, there’s a good chance they’ll have to leave our country. Think about that.

Intel was started with the help of an immigrant who studied here and then stayed here. Instagram was started with the help of an immigrant who studied here and then stayed here. Right now in one of those classrooms, there’s a student wrestling with how to turn their big idea—their Intel or Instagram—into a big business. We’re giving them all the skills they need to figure that out, but then we’re going to turn around and tell them to start that business and create those jobs in China or India or Mexico or someplace else? That’s not how you grow new industries in America. That’s how you give new industries to our competitors. That’s why we need comprehensive immigration reform.”

- damn straight

President Obama in Nevada today, laying out a four-part plan for comprehensive immigration reform
(via barackobama)

poptech: ianbrooks: Holographic Cube Building by Hiro...

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:30:23 -0500

poptech:

ianbrooks:

Holographic Cube Building by Hiro Yamagata

Originally made for the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, this installation covered two buildings in holographic panels that shifted color once lasers were reflected off it, creating a dazzling array of invisible light pyrotechnics.

(via: My Modern Met)

Neat. Reminds us a bit of Harpa, the building where we held a gathering in Reykjavik, Iceland. This video gives a nice tour, although it’s too bad that it misses out on sharing the exterior magic that occurs when night falls.

Photo

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:01:46 -0500

Photo

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 18:56:28 -0500

mareen: Two years ago, when I spent the end/beginning of the...

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 18:47:47 -0500

mareen:

Two years ago, when I spent the end/beginning of the year in South Africa, I also came across this story of massive wild fires on a hill in Stellenbosch (a town near Capetown).

It happens a lot that the dry flora catches on fire during summer times, and I was there as people were in fear of losing their homes, packing their bags and getting ready to leave everything behind this one evening.

The next morning, firefighters were still putting out tiny flames that had survived. In their bare t-shirts.

I now took the time to final edit the series. Take a look at it on my website: http://www.mareenfischinger.de/places/fire-in-stellenbosch/

fred-wilson: the iPhone as a jailhouse i have always seen it as...

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 18:47:02 -0500

fred-wilson:

the iPhone as a jailhouse

i have always seen it as one

(via Go Outside Magazine - Jailhouses)

"This way of thinking about the computer as an evocative object puts us on the inside of a new inside..."

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 18:43:52 -0500

“This way of thinking about the computer as an evocative object puts us on the inside of a new inside joke. For when psychoanalysts talked about object relations, they had always been talking about people. From the beginning, people saw computers as “almost-alive” or “sort of alive.” With the computer, object relations psychoanalysis can be applied to, well, objects. People feel at one with video games, with lines of computer code, with the avatars they play in virtual worlds, with their smartphones. Classical transitional objects are meant to be abandoned, their power recovered in moments of heightened experience. When our current digital devices—our smartphones and cellphones—take on the power of transitional objects, a new psychology comes into play. These digital objects are never meant to be abandoned. We are meant to become cyborg.”

- Sherry Turkle (via explore-blog)

The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 18:37:32 -0500

The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race:

tetw:

by Jared Diamond

Astronomy taught us that our earth isn’t the center of the universe. From biology we learned that we weren’t specially created by God but evolved along with millions of other species. Now archaeology is demolishing another sacred belief: that human history over the past million years has been a long tale of progress.

Hmmm…

platea: Hammock by Daniel Arsham

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 13:29:34 -0500

platea:

Hammock by Daniel Arsham