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Caturday: Writerz blox, I has it.

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:09:20 GMT

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Tags: kat, cat, cats, kitten, kittens, pics, pictures, lol, lolz, lolcats

A Children’s Treasury Of Poverty Iconography

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:43:21 GMT

clipped by: Jorjor
clipper's remarks: The Comics Curmudgeon is Josh Fruhlinger, whose daily blog at http://joshreads.com/ offers snarly commentary from Josh and his readers on the comic strips you love to hate. He also comments on editorial and political cartoons at Wonkette, the DC Gossip.

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By the Comics Curmudgeon
So apparently 60 percent of you think that we are on the verge of a new Great Depression! Hopefully those of your who believe this are preparing yourself for the coming crisis, by putting your money in low-yield, low-risk investments, stocking up on canned food and ammo, and drinking heavily. But there aren’t just practical preparations to be made; you’ve got to get ready aesthetically, too, to understand the common visual language of total social and economic collapse. Get ready for the symbols of our new lives!

Hobos.

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Barrel-based wardrobes.

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Fat rich dudes smoking cigars.

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MONOPOLY, from Parker Brothers!

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Terrifying jawless tentacled Cthulhu-beasts, bursting up through the Earth’s surface from their unspeakable lairs deep in the bowels of hell.

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Tags: depression, poverty, icons, editorial cartoons, comics curmudgeon, josh fruhlinger, politics, economy

Power-nap

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:34:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Sleep is good

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Researchers have found in recent years that the human body requires only as much sleep as the brain will allow it. In other words, so long as the brain is functioning at full capacity, there’s no great requirement for sleep. The big thing is that the brain needs a rest every now and then, and apparently, the brain can refresh itself and go on “like with a full tank of gas” with just a short, 20-minute power nap.

Can human consciousness survive without a brain?

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:19:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Why do you think there is such resistance to studies like yours?

Because we're pushing through the boundaries of science, working against assumptions and perceptions that have been fixed. A lot of people hold this idea that, well, when you die, you die; that's it. Death is a moment — you know you're either dead or alive. All these things are not scientifically valid, but they're social perceptions.How is technology challenging the perception that death is a moment?"

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Parnia and his colleagues at the Human Consciousness Project announced their first major undertaking: a 3-year exploration of the biology behind "out-of-body" experiences

When your heart stops beating, there is no blood getting to your brain. And so what happens is that within about 10 sec., brain activity ceases —as you would imagine. Yet paradoxically, 10% or 20% of people who are then brought back to life from that period, which may be a few minutes or over an hour, will report having consciousness. So the key thing here is, Are these real, or is it some sort of illusion?

if you look at the mind, consciousness, and the brain, the assumption that the mind and brain are the same thing is fine for most circumstances, because in 99% of circumstances we can't separate the mind and brain; they work at the exactly the same time. But then there are certain extreme examples, like when the brain shuts down, that we see that this assumption may no longer seem to hold true.

cartoons

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:49:57 GMT

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Eye Colour

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:22:25 GMT

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Some of the most amazing colors can be found in the eyes of the creatures looking back at us. Here’s a gallery of some of mother nature’s remarkable gazes.

Reuters Pics

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:09:12 GMT

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The Chimp and The Baby Tiger

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:45:14 GMT

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Types of cloud

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:49:49 GMT

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eating with the birds

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:27:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: how sweet...sharing food

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The Ugly Duchess, The Genius and The Illustrator - a mystery solved

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:10:32 GMT

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She is one of the most popular paintings in the National Gallery, whose rather unfortunate looks inspired illustrations for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. But one question has always puzzled: did the poor lady really look like this?

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she did and was suffering from an exceptionally rare form of Paget's disease

an abnormality of the metabolism that enlarges and deforms the bones

The portrait, An Old Woman, painted by

Quinten Massys in 1513

will be part of the National Gallery's

exhibition Renaissance Faces: Van Eyck to Titian, which opens next Wednesday

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Paintings from the Exhibition

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two important discoveries have been made in recent research

firstly

she almost certainly looked like that

secondly, a long held historical theory that the painter was copying Leonardo da Vinci is wrong.

the Massys painting is

similar

to two Leonardesque drawings

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Leonardo - or, at least, one of his followers - copied Massys's wonderful painting, not the other way around

Even When You Sleep, Your Brain Is Awake

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:05:15 GMT

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Sleep in man is divided in two main phases : non-REM sleep, which occupies most of our early sleep night, and REM sleep, during which our dreams prevail. Non-REM sleep is usually considered as a compensatory ‘resting’ state for the brain, following the intense waking brain activity. Indeed, previous brain imaging studies showed that the brain was less active during periods of non-REM sleep as compared to periods of wakefulness.

Although not rejecting this concept, researchers from the Cyclotron Research Centre of the University of Liège in Belgium and from the Department of Neurology of Liege University Hospital demonstrate that, even during its deepest stages (also called ‘slow-wave-sleep’), non-REM sleep should not be viewed as a stage of constant and continuous brain activity decrease, but is also characterized by transient and recurrent activity increases in specific brain areas.

Tags: neuroscience, sleep

Planet's loneliest bug revealed

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:34:41 GMT

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A bug which lives entirely on its own and survives without oxygen in complete darkness underground has been discovered in South Africa.

Desulforudis audaxviator, or bold traveller as it is known in English, relies on water, hydrogen and sulphate for its energy.

Because it gets by without oxygen, it could offer clues as to whether life exists on other planets.

The loneliest living species known to science was found inside a gold mine.

The rod-shaped bacterium was found 2.8km (1.74 miles) beneath the surface of the Earth in Mponeng's Driefontein mine near Johannesburg, living in complete isolation, total darkness and 60C (140F) heat.

The find represents the first known ecosystem with a single biological species, scientists say.

It was identified in DNA extracted from water-filled cracks in the mine.

Tags: nature, bug, oxygen

Feeding the Lions

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:56:40 GMT

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Tags: mccain, palin, campaign, smears, hate speech, incite, violence

Some Stunning Photos of Berlin At Night

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:21:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Very cool.

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