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Mermaid
Vargas 1948
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This wildlife overpass near Banff National Park, combined with fencing that leads animals to it, is designed to give wildlife a way to cross over...
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Shame
Wiz Khalifa
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“The deal is this. You’re welcome to this for READINGS if you wish. What I’d ask is that you (or Ms. Rosenbush, whom I respect but fear) not copyedit...”
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Video of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton first getting word, via Blackberry, of Gaddafi’s
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“If you really want to create brand loyalty, cultivate passion for your products, and break new ground, try being inclusive. And I don’t mean casting a size 10 model and saying she’s plus-sized, or putting a single woman of color on the runway. That is not diversity. Diversity is short, old, scarred, hairy, tattooed, fat, thin, neither-fat-nor-thin, tall, flat-chested, busty, frizzy-haired, wheelchair-using, non-hourglassy, and jiggly. Diversity is gay and bi and hetero and trans and every possible combination and variation of gender and sexuality you can imagine. Diversity isn’t just African-American and occasionally Asian, it’s Latin, Native American, Polynesian, South American, Middle Eastern, Indian, and hundreds more. Diversity isn’t just that one gorgeous silver-haired model, it’s the rosy-cheeked 35-year-old and the vibrant 47-year-old, and the stunning 69-year-old. Diversity is also hundreds of other things that I’m omitting here, and it is changing all the time. It behooves you to celebrate that messy, difficult, ever-changing morass of humanity, even if it scares the pants off of you to contemplate doing so.”
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Reminds me of my sisters art work
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If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don’t want to do it.
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Nissan is working with scientists to research the possible use of a brain interface in order to give the car information about intentions so that it can predict and prepare for the next actions a driver will take.
Nissan is undertaking this pioneering work in collaboration with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland (EPFL). Far reaching research on Brain Machine Interface (BMI) systems by scientists at EPFL already allows disabled users to manoeuvre their wheelchairs by thought transference alone. The next stage is to adapt the BMI processes to the car – and driver – of the future.
This development happens in the crossroads of the areas of human machine interaction and interfacing, neurophysiology and predictive computing. (via Nissan teams up with EPFL for futurist car interfaces)(via emergentfutures)
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You Love Your iPhone. Literally
Paul Higgins: Interesting article on the effects of technology including:
(update - fixed link to full story from the New York Times. Thanks to http://hcyee67.tumblr.com/ for picking it up)
Earlier this year, I carried out an fMRI experiment to find out whether iPhones were really, truly addictive, no less so than alcohol, cocaine, shopping or video games. In conjunction with the San Diego-based firm MindSign Neuromarketing, I enlisted eight men and eight women between the ages of 18 and 25. Our 16 subjects were exposed separately to audio and to video of a ringing and vibrating iPhone.
In each instance, the results showed activation in both the audio and visual cortices of the subjects’ brains. In other words, when they were exposed to the video, our subjects’ brains didn’t just see the vibrating iPhone, they “heard” it, too; and when they were exposed to the audio, they also “saw” it. This powerful cross-sensory phenomenon is known as synesthesia.
But most striking of all was the flurry of activation in the insular cortex of the brain, which is associated with feelings of love and compassion. The subjects’ brains responded to the sound of their phones as they would respond to the presence or proximity of a girlfriend, boyfriend or family member
Full Story: New York Times
