October 20th, 2012
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“Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.” I just love this. This is like all of my book-filled childhood imaginings wrapped into a little quote. I strongly suspect that compassion - for one’s self and for others - is more powerful than we allow ourselves to realize. via jayremenshnieder: “I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.” — Frida Kahlo de Rivera

“Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.”

I just love this. This is like all of my book-filled childhood imaginings wrapped into a little quote. I strongly suspect that compassion - for one’s self and for others - is more powerful than we allow ourselves to realize.

via jayremenshnieder:

“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.”

— Frida Kahlo de Rivera

(Source: kreux)

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October 19th, 2012
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“Everyone has a backbone. Use yours.”

Everybody has a backbone. The Backbone Zone is a project to help students find theirs, and to give them tools to confront gender-bullying, sexual harassment, and sexist and homophobic language when they see and hear it.

Brilliant counter to sexist and homophobic words (which cause more harm than many people care to realize).  Time to take responsibility for ourselves, folks. Stop hating now.

More info here: http://www.mecasa.org/backbone/index.html

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October 17th, 2012
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The Green Children by Agnes Cecile

So here comes a whole new way to experience the visual process. HOW LONG before the animated GIF sequence becomes standard? It should be already, but perhaps I’m just demanding. 

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October 12th, 2012
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The Mathematics of Beauty

The Fibonacci Sequence is a sequence of numbers where each number is the sum of the previous two—i.e., 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34…and so on to infinity. The ratio of one number to the next is approximately 1.61803, which is called “phi”, or the Golden Ratio. (via sciencesoup)

Yes, please. 

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October 9th, 2012
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“There are no foreign lands, it is the traveler only who is foreign.” - Robert Louis Stevenson Foreign lands by m1chela  via nevver

“There are no foreign lands, it is the traveler only who is foreign.”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Foreign lands by m1chela 

via nevver

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June 7th, 2012
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We have to remember that what
we observe is not nature herself,
but nature exposed to our method
of questioning.

Werner Heisenberg

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May 8th, 2012
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On the Perception of Probable Things: Neural Substrates of Associative Memory, Imagery, and Perception

Or my alternate title: What You See Is What You Get. Literally.

Please, read on:

Perception is influenced both by the immediate pattern of sensory inputs and by memories acquired through prior experiences with the world. Throughout much of its illustrious history, however, study of the cellular basis of perception has focused on neuronal structures and events that underlie the detection and discrimination of sensory stimuli. Relatively little attention has been paid to the means by which memories interact with incoming sensory signals. Building upon recent neurophysiological/behavioral studies of the cortical substrates of visual associative memory, I propose a specific functional process by which stored information about the world supplements sensory inputs to yield neuronal signals that can account for visual perceptual experience. This perspective represents a significant shift in the way we think about the cellular bases of perception.

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October 12th, 2011
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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Albert Einstein, 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955
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