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Scientists and dancers find inspiration and insight in collaboration.

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:05:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "...On the way, he met one of his colleagues, Bob Edgar, to whom he explained the experiment. "Edgar proceeded to convert my beautiful design into instructions for an imaginary square dance, prancing from one side of the road to the other as he acted out a dance of bacterophage particles, each marked with a different isotope, pairing and separating, moving in lines, re-assorting themselves and so on. This lasted for the 300 yards between his classroom and the lawn with its waiting human dancers, where he plunged off into the golden twilight."

Cairns had never thought of an experiment as a form of choreography before. You probably haven't either. Cairns was very happy that Edgar had, however, because in dancing the experiment, the two of them realized that it couldn't possibly work. A bit of fancy footwork saved him weeks of useless lab work."

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Dance Your Experiment

Have you ever noticed that the word "dance" has "dna" in it? Scientists have! And some of them have actually danced DNA, and other scientific concepts, too! That's because the same creativity that permitted Loie Fuller to apply scientific experimentation to her dances allows scientists to use the concepts of dance to inform their scientific experiments. It's a two-way street!

Our favorite story in this regard is told by MacArthur Fellow John Cairns, a microbiologist of international repute. Many years ago, Cairns was trying to figure out how a particular set of bacterial genes were regulated. After many weeks of careful thinking, he devised a complicated experiment that he thought would shed light on the matter. At the time, he was working at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories. On Saturday evenings, during the summers, the resident scientists would often gather for some folk dancing, and as was Cairns' wont, he set out to join the fun. On the way,

50 Dark Movies in a paintin - what the 50 movies are??.

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:48:12 GMT

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50 Dark Movies in a paintin

Please add notes to this indicating what the 50 movies are.

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Is money part of human nature??

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:38:44 GMT

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Why Money is Part of Human Nature: Money as Both Tool and Drug

Money is more than just a useful tool, as some economists have argued; while money is certainly useful, human behaviour towards it can't be explained just by its utility. The drug metaphor helps demonstrate how the motivation for money often extends past its actual utility. This ties in with many sociological analyses that emphasise money's social meaning and symbolic nature over and above its simple utilitarian applications.

Thinking of money as a drug highlights the biological basis of money. An evolutionary account underlines this biological perspective by suggesting that money addiction might be built on our drive to trade and play.

What Lea and Webley are implicitly arguing against is a purely cultural understanding of humans' relationship with money. Their view is that culture on its own is not powerful enough to explain the human motivation for money. Money, they argue, whether for good or evil, is part of human nature

Mind the gap -Why We Say One Thing But Do The Opposite ??

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:22:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The exact way in which people's attitudes and behaviour are connected remains a mystery. All we can say with certainty is that people are frequently extremely inconsistent.

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Why We Say One Thing But Do The Opposite

t's only natural to think a person's attitudes and behaviours are directly related

the link between a person's attitudes and their behaviours is not always that strong. In fact people have a nasty habit of saying one thing then doing the opposite, even with the best of intentions.

You see it all the time. People say they're worried about global warming and yet they drive around in a big gas guzzler. They say that money isn't their God, yet they work all the hours. They say they want to be fit but they don't do any exercise.

The question is: why?

In some ways an attitude is like a snapshot of the prejudices the respondent has available to memory just at the moment they are questioned.

Despite these findings, the picture is extremely complicated and frustratingly inconclusive

The exact way in which people's attitudes and behaviour are connected remains a mystery. All we can say with certainty is that people are frequently extremely inconsistent.

Political Science: What Being Neat or Messy Says about Political Leanings

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:10:17 GMT

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Do genes determine whether you'll be liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican?

Researchers insist they can tell someone's politlcal affiliation by looking at the condition of their offices and bedrooms. Messy? You're a lefty. A neatnik? Welcome to the Right.

According to a controversial new study, set to be published in The Journal of Political Psychology, the bedrooms and offices of liberals, who are generally thought of as open, tend to be colorful and awash in books about travel, ethnicity, feminism and music, along with music CDs covering folk, classic and modern rock, as well as art supplies, movie tickets and travel memorabilia.

Conservatives, on the other hand, tend to surround themselves with calendars, postage stamps, laundry baskets, irons and sewing materials in their personal spaces, according to the study. Their bedrooms and offices are well-lighted and decorated with sports paraphernalia and flags—especially American ones.

Our senses provide perceptual information that affects our behavior

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:02:41 GMT

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It’s not just puppy dogs who affectionately sniff to get to know you better—humans do it too, we just aren’t aware that we’re doing it. New research

suggests that humans pick up infinitesimal scents that instantly affect whether or not we like somebody.

“We evaluate people every day and make judgments about who we like or don’t like,”

“We may think our judgments are based only on various conscious bits of information, but our senses also may provide subliminal perceptual information that affects our behavior.”

“Subliminal Smells Can Guide Social Preferences”

even minute amounts of odors elicited salient psychological and physiological changes that indicate that humans get much more information from barely perceptible scents than scientists have previously realized.

people conscious of the barely noticeable scents were able to discount that sensory information and just evaluate the faces

“It only was when smell sneaked in without being noticed that judgments about likeability were biased.”

Emotions that are often evoked when hearing a piece of music..

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:46:57 GMT

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despite music's importance to our lives, very little is known about the memories and emotions that are often evoked when hearing a piece of music

Does music have a more powerful effect on memory than other influences, like images, words, or smells?

"This region in the front of the brain where we mapped musical activity is important for a number of functions, like assimilating information that is important to one's self, or mediating interactions between emotional and non-emotional information. Our results provide a stronger foundation for explaining the link between music, emotion and the brain.

songs you like are more likely to be associated with memories. But do the preferred songs evoke the memories, or do we like the songs because we associate them with memories? Since this is only a correlation

Maybe memories associated with pictures viewed in a museum on a first date would be different

7 Incredible Natural Phenomena

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:34:18 GMT

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Venezuela's Everlasting Storm

the phenomenon is a cloud-to-cloud lightning that forms a voltage arc more than five kilometre high during 140 to 160 nights a year, 10 hours a night, and as many as 280 times an ho

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Honduras' Rain of Fishes

it begins with a dark cloud in the sky followed by lightning, thunder, strong winds and heavy rain for 2 to 3 hours

Morocco's Climbing Goats

The goats climb them because they like to eat the fruit of the argan tree, which is similar to an oliv

Kerala's (extraterrestrial?) Red Rain

From 25 July to 23 September 2001, red rain sporadically fell on the southern Indian state of Kerala

Brazilian's longest wave on the Earth

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Denmark's Black Sun

flocks of more than a million European starlings

gather from all corners to join in the incredible formations shown above.

Idaho's Fire Rainbow

"Fire rainbow", appears when the sun is high in the sky

and its light passes through diaphanous, high-altitude cirrus clouds made up of hexagonal plate crystals.

7 Incredible Natural Phenomena

Synthetic telepathy- communicating by thought alone..

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:09:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "When I was a kid I occasionally said things that were inappropriate, and I learned not to do that," said D'Zmura. "I think that people would learn to think in a way the computer couldn't interpret. Or they can just switch it off."

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The U.S. Army is developing a technology known as synthetic telepathy that would allow someone to create email or voice mail and send it by thought alone. The concept is based on reading electrical activity in the brain using an electroencephalograph, or EEG

| WATCH VIDEO: Imagine playing a video game only by using your brain...

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Known as synthetic telepathy, the technology is based on reading electrical activity in the brain using an electroencephalograph, or EEG. Similar technology is being marketed as a way to control video games by thought.

The idea of communicating by thought alone is not a new one. In the 1960s, a researcher strapped an EEG to his head and, with some training, could stop and start his brain's alpha waves to compose Morse code messages.

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"When I was a kid I occasionally said things that were inappropriate, and I learned not to do that," said D'Zmura. "I think that people would learn to think in a way the computer couldn't interpret. Or they can just switch it off."

Its not just fiction - researchers are developing a neural implant that can think independently...

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:56:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "The questions and implications are endless, and while they are all likely far away possibilities, we now know its not just fiction. In reality, technological advancements often lead to real changes that are much stranger that fiction. The eventual melding of the human mind with advanced computer technology would revolutionize the world ways that we cannot even possibly imagine."

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Will future humans have computers implanted in their brains? Researchers are developing a neural implant that can think independently—just like the human brain does. Creepy? Yeah. Cool? Definitely.

Scientists at the University of Florida aren’t just creating a neural implant that can translate human brain signals, but one that can act independently to increase its efficiency and synergy with the brain as it learns new things.

In the grand scheme of brain-machine interfaces, this is a complete paradigm change,"

"This idea opens up all kinds of possibilities for how we interact with devices. It's not just about giving instructions but about those devices assisting us in a common goal. You know the goal, the computer knows the goal and you work together to solve the task."

These “brain computers” are programmed with complex algorithms that can interpret thoughts. But the algorithms used in current brain-machine interfaces are incapable of adapting to change, Sanchez explains.

Why knowledge about emotion has accumulated so slowly ??

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:21:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "In this paper I argue that despite the general importance of emotion in the science of the mind and the ever increasing pace of research on emotion, knowledge about emotion has accumulated more slowly than for other comparable concepts, such as memory or attention, because the acceptance of these commonsense assumptions are not warranted by the available empirical evidence. I then consider what moving beyond a commonsense view might look like and what it would mean for the scientific study of emotion." Lisa Feldman Barrett

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As common sense has it, emotions are triggered automatically, happen to people, and cause them to act in specific and diagnostic ways. An offense triggers anger. A death triggers sadness

The given quality of a person’s own experience, and the way that emotion seems to control behavior without awareness, is usually taken as proof that emotions are automatic responses to things that happen in the world over which people have little control. Knowledge, expectations, and beliefs seem to have little impact on emotion, although they can regulate a response once it has been triggered. As a consequence, people assume that emotions can overcome them, rapidly overriding whatever else they might have been doing, thinking, and feeling.

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In this paper I argue that despite the general importance of emotion in the science of the mind and the ever increasing pace of research on emotion, knowledge about emotion has accumulated more slowly than for other comparable concepts, such as memory or attention

Understanding The Cycle Of Violence

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:26:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Unlocking the developmental link between growing up in an aggressive or violent household and becoming the perpetrator of such behavior could prove useful for stopping the cycle of violence".

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Understanding The Cycle Of Violence

Researchers have long known that children who grow up in an aggressive or violent household are more likely to become violent or aggressive in future relationships. What has not been so clear is the developmental link between witnessing aggressive behavior as a child and carrying it out as an adult. What changes occur in a child that affect whether he or she will choose to deal with conflict in aggressive or violent ways?

children who grow up in aggressive households may learn to process social information differently than their peers who grow up in non-aggressive environments.

Children with high-conflict parents are more likely to think that aggressive responses would be good ways to handle social conflicts,"

"This partly explains why they are more likely as young adults to have conflict in their own romantic relationships."

this research has implications for treatment and prevention.

Cosmic eye looks back in time to picture a galaxy forming in the early Universe

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:21:47 GMT

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Cosmic eye looks back in time to picture a galaxy forming in the early Universe

Scientists have used a Cosmic Eye to 'look back in time' and glimpse a galaxy formation in the early Universe.

Using gravity from a galaxy in the foreground as an enormous zoom lens, researchers were able to see into the distant Universe.

The Cosmic Eye allowed scientists to observe a young star-forming galaxy, which lies about 11 billion light years from Earth, as it appeared just two billion years after the Big Bang.

The Cosmic Eye is so called because the foreground galaxy, which is 2.2 billion light years from Earth, appears in the centre of an arc created by the distant galaxy - giving it the appearance of a human eye.

Its name also derives from its resemblance to the Eye of Horus, the ancient Egyptian symbol representing the god of the sky and the ruler of the world of the living.

The distant galaxy was originally identified using the Hubble Space Telescope.

Invisible to the naked eye - Fascinating images of life under the microscope.

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:37:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: They are all finalists in Nikon's Small World competition, which for 34 years has celebrated this technique known as photomicrography.

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'Small World is regarded as the leading forum for showcasing the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope,'

incredible images that use microscopes and digital imaging software to capture views of nature which are invisible to the naked eye.

It looks like a tiny, blue, bug-eyed alien - its miniature spine visible through translucent skin. But this fascinating image is actually a close-up of a chicken embryo and finalist in a 'small world' photography competition.

They are all finalists in Nikon's Small World competition, which for 34 years has celebrated this technique known as photomicrography.

Images are taken through microscopes, which magnify an image by at least 20 times using ordinary light, ultraviolet, infrared, electrons or X-rays.

Golden wonder: Using fibre optics, this image shows the wing scales of a sunset moth

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The typewriter symbolized the golden age of writing

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:23:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "The golden age of the typewriter has passed, but its memory lives on. That memory exists in the great literature it helped produce, in everyday parlance such as “Carbon Copy” (CC) and “Carriage Return" (CR), as a storyline in detective fiction and films, but most of all it lives on in the “QWERTY” keyboard design, its great legacy to the technology that consigned the typewriter to history."

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The typewriter symbolized the golden age of writing in the last century. It not only helped produce great literature, but often became part of the story itself.

Redolent of Parisian garrets on the left bank of the Seine, with writers like Joyce, Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, the humble typewriter helped produce great literature. Invented in the 19th Century, it dominated the writing scene of the last century, but was made obsolete by the advent of word processors and computers.

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The First Typewriter

the first purchasers was Mark Twain, who was the first writer to deliver a typed literary work, Life on the Mississippi, to his publisher.

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n the early model typewriter, a writer could not see what was typed until 4 lines of type had been completed as the type bars struck the bottom of the platen.

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QWERTY Keyboard Layout

.” It goes on to say that type bars carrying the most frequently occurring word pairs are well separated to prevent the jamming of the bars.

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Clipmarks | einbar's clips

Scientists and dancers find inspiration and insight in collaboration.

Dance Your Experiment

50 Dark Movies in a paintin - what the 50 movies are??.

Is money part of human nature??

Why Money is Part of Human Nature: Money as Both Tool and Drug

Mind the gap -Why We Say One Thing But Do The Opposite ??

Political Science: What Being Neat or Messy Says about Political Leanings

Do genes determine whether you'll be liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican?

Our senses provide perceptual information that affects our behavior

Emotions that are often evoked when hearing a piece of music..

7 Incredible Natural Phenomena

Venezuela's Everlasting Storm

Honduras' Rain of Fishes

Morocco's Climbing Goats

Kerala's (extraterrestrial?) Red Rain

Brazilian's longest wave on the Earth

Denmark's Black Sun

Idaho's Fire Rainbow

7 Incredible Natural Phenomena

Synthetic telepathy- communicating by thought alone..

Its not just fiction - researchers are developing a neural implant that can think independently...

Why knowledge about emotion has accumulated so slowly ??

Understanding The Cycle Of Violence

Understanding The Cycle Of Violence

Cosmic eye looks back in time to picture a galaxy forming in the early Universe

Cosmic eye looks back in time to picture a galaxy forming in the early Universe

Invisible to the naked eye - Fascinating images of life under the microscope.

The typewriter symbolized the golden age of writing

The First Typewriter

QWERTY Keyboard Layout

Electric Typewriters