February 2012
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January 2012
4 posts
“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls...”
– Edwin P. Hubble, The Nature of Science
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“So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may...”
– Stephen Hawking (via crownedrose)
“All grown-ups were once children… but only few of them remember it.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince (via philphys)
December 2011
13 posts
The Human Experience.
Whoever can read this is a highly evolved primate with incredible cognitive abilities not observed elsewhere (for now) in this universe. Thanks to our beautiful neocortex (shown below), cultural cognition developed the society we live in today with all its technological blessings and faults. Neocortex literally means “new bark” and it’s where we believe our consciousness and...
A little insight on my Christmas... →
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we...”
– Albert Einstein (via cwnl)
Watchskepttv:
Will We Ever Understand the Brain?
As neuroscientists are learning more and more about our body’s hidden frontier, we have gained fleeting insights into our own intuition, habits and seemingly unexplainable preferences. Can we solve those mysteries by creating a complete computer model of our brain? Or, is the brain an unsolvable puzzle? Two leading neuroscientists discuss these...
Have a wonderful day everyone!!!!!!
Thank you neurotransmitters for making me feel so happy
November 2011
28 posts
life is so freakin' ironic
life is also silly.
life is also beautiful.
“Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of...”
– Carl Sagan (via scinerds)
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This Is Your Brain On Love →
c’est le amour?
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Brain Gene Activity Changes Through Life - Science... →
sciencenote:
“The complexity is mind-numbing,” says neuroscientist Stephen Ginsberg of the Nathan Kline Institute and New York University Langone Medical Center, who wasn’t involved in the studies. “It puts the brain in rarefied air.” In the studies, published in the Oct. 27 Nature, researchers focused not on DNA — virtually every cell’s raw genetic material is identical — but on when, where and...
I wish more people were interested in science.
amen.
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Time – and brain chemistry – heal all wounds . . . →
jtotheizzoe:
Christie WIlcox has a touching and beautiful exploration and personal account of pain, loss, and the biology of how we can hurt so much sometimes, even if we aren’t physically injured:
I know I’m not physically hurt. Though it feels like I’ve been kicked in the stomach with steel-toed boots, my abdomen isn’t bruised. Spiking cortisol levels are causing my muscles to tense and...
“You make my heart have premature ventricular contractions”
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“There are certain things in life where you know it’s a mistake but you...”
“Yes, the universe had a beginning. Yes, the universe continues to evolve. And...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via usgroovykids)
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October 2011
25 posts
