newyorker:

Cartoon of the day. For more from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/MLv8gn

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oneofthepaths:

Testing subsequent visual perception, by using transcranial magnetic stimulation of the visual cortex, revealed a cyclic pattern at the very rapid rate of brain oscillations, in time with the underlying brainwaves. Prof Thut said: “Rhythmicity therefore is indeed omnipresent not only in brain activity but also brain function. For perception, this means that despite experiencing the world as a continuum, we do not sample our world continuously but in discrete snapshots determined by the cycles of brain rhythms.” The research, ‘Sounds reset rhythms of visual cortex and corresponding human visual perception’ is published in the journal Current Biology. More information: Romei et al., Sounds Reset Rhythms of Visual Cortex and Corresponding Human Visual Perception, Current Biology (2012), doi:10.1016/j.cub.2012.03.025 Provided by University of Glasgow

This is more support for what I have been calling subtractive mechanics. The idea that subjectivity is not only built from the bottom up from meaningless parts and pixels but elided from the top down as well.

Just as our optical blindspot is erased through a filling in of high level perceptual expectations, our entire experience of life is a process of extracting signifying themes from many oscillating channels of sense. The realism we experience persists through time, within each moment accumulating the sense of the past and anticipating the intentions of our different sense-motive modalities. We are seeing through the oscillations, bridging each gap in sensation with ourselves - weaving ourselves into our experience .

This is the same thing I mean by the ‘Big Diffraction’; the presence of everythingness bleeding through the gap between itself and its own absence, seeking to re-member its wholeness.

Very interesting blogpost regarding the human brain…

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swagistani:

President Obama seated in the bus where Rosa Parks initiated her quest for civil rights.

This man has real class!

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jothelibrarian:

Pretty medieval manuscript of the day is a fifteenth century psalter from the special collections department of the University of St Andrews, in Scotland. It’s a real pleasure to feature a book from my alma mater, although I don’t recall ever seeing any illuminated manuscripts when I volunteered there. Charters a plenty, and some fab printed books, but nothing like this. I think it’s a gorgeous photo, and the high resolution means it’s easy to have a good look at the text.

Image source: University of St Andrews MS BX2033.A00, from the University’s Echoes from the vault blog, and Creative Commons licensed.

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These should brighten your day! Lol.:D

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onlinecounsellingcollege:

Some think that talking is a total waste of time; that it’s just hot air that leads nowhere in the end. But counsellors would argue that talking really helps. The reasons for this are summarised below:

1. Talking is cathartic: Often we feel empty, worn out or…

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This is hilarious!

inothernews:

“Mitt Romney is like a Lego man: he’s only got one facial expression — and his hair snaps on.”

—STEPHEN COLBERT, The Colbert Report

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Look at Britain to see the tragic effects of a very bad idea.

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eretzyisrael:

Danny Ayalon’s speech at Bet El Dinner

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saboma:

A recently released picture from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope shows the spiral structure of the galaxy M83, also known as the Southern Pinwheel. Astronomers think this galaxy is a smaller version of what our own Milky Way might look like if we could see it from the outside.

Beautiful.

Gorgeous!