"What is essential is invisible to the eye"

"”God has no religion” — Mahatma Gandhi"

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:19:30 -0400

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”God has no religion”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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- (via adahlitumbles)

jeveyy: The beautiful art of Hajin Bae. When I look at her art...

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:07:21 -0400

jeveyy:

The beautiful art of Hajin Bae.

When I look at her art I feel stories, so here I’ve arranged one of the ones I can see. A city on a rainy night, everyone is hurrying home with their umbrellas, some people are lonely, some people find someone to end that loneliness.

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Thu, 16 May 2013 08:06:20 -0400

"To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don’t let it."

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:01:55 -0400

“““To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don’t let it.”””

- Ernest Hemingway (via milktree)

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

Thu, 16 May 2013 07:58:33 -0400

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

- Benjamin Franklin (via theimpossiblecool)

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Thu, 09 May 2013 12:51:49 -0400

"Feelings come and feelings go. There is no need to fear them and no need to crave them. Let them..."

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:52:35 -0400

“Feelings come and feelings go. There is no need to fear them and no need to crave them. Let them come, and then let them go. No feeling is your permanent reality, no matter how intense it is.”

- Unknown (via creatingaquietmind)

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Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:47:16 -0400

maddieonthings: Party Nose

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 20:41:10 -0400

maddieonthings:

Party Nose

sciencenote: Nikola Rahme Budapest, Hungary Subject...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:16:59 -0400

sciencenote:

Nikola Rahme

Budapest, Hungary

Subject Matter:

Hymenoptera: Eupelmidae (parasitic wasp)

(21.2x)Technique:

Reflected Light

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:47:00 -0400

mysticmementos: e-jack-ulation: Wormhole

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 06:31:02 -0400

mysticmementos:

e-jack-ulation: Wormhole

"Cuando nos transformamos radicalmente, nuestros amigos, los que no se han transformado, se..."

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:40:11 -0400

“Cuando nos transformamos radicalmente, nuestros amigos, los que no se han transformado, se convierten en los fantasmas de nuestro propio pasado; su voz resuena en nuestros oídos como si viniera de la región de las sombras, como si nos oyésemos a nosotros mismos…”

- Nietzsche Friedrich / Humano demasiado humano (fragmento)

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neuromorphogenesis: Should I trust my intuition? Do we always...

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:32:56 -0400

neuromorphogenesis:

Should I trust my intuition?

Do we always make better decisions when we take more time to think? Or are there decisions where more time doesn’t really help?

A study led by Zachary Mainen, Director of the Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, and published today (March 28th) in the scientific journal, Neuron, reports that when rats were challenged with a series of perceptual decision problems, their performance was just as good when they decided rapidly as when they took a much longer time to respond. Despite being encouraged to slow down and try harder, the subjects of this study achieved their maximum performance in less than 300 milliseconds.

‘There are many kinds of decisions, and for some, having more time appears to be of no help. In these cases, you’d better go with your intuition, and that’s what our subjects did’, explains Zachary Mainen, the neuroscientist who led this study, while an Associate Professor at CSHL, in the USA.

This study suggests that rats can be used as an animal model to investigate what is happening in the human brain when ‘intuitive’ decisions are being made. ‘Decision-making is not a well-understood process, but it appears to be surprisingly similar among species. This study provides a basis to begin to take apart one type of decision and see how it really works’, the author adds.

More research in this area is now being conducted at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, in Lisbon

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post-mitotic: colored SEM of the iris with the lens removed to...

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:28:00 -0400

post-mitotic:

colored SEM of the iris with the lens removed to demonstrate the zonular fibers and ciliary processes that adjust lens thickness for accommodation of sight

credit: University of Delaware