Happy Valentine’s Day everybody. I hope you’re finding the love you need. Here are some tracks from producer and mix-master Giraffage from Alpha Pup Records. Charlie Yin, a 23 year-old from San Francisco, is the man behind the name. He has a bright future.
Many think this holiday is about Tracks 1 (Close to Me), 2 (Thinking about you), or maybe 8 (Undress U), but we know it’s all about Track 3 (Money)!
And how about a bonus track to send you out on a swooning note (from Selebrities):
Lisa Nilsson has returned for an encore in Paper Anatomy made from the extremely tedious process of Quilling. I wrote about her work in the past, and here’s an excerpt:
“She created these masterpieces by meticulously rolling and shaping narrow strips of Japanese mulberry paper in a technique called paper filigree or quilling. As you can imagine, each section takes several weeks to complete.”
This time around she features a canine cut right down the middle. An interesting note from Lisa’s site is that “The peach-colored shape located where the brain meets the sinuses is the olfactory bulb. This structure is forty times bigger in dogs than in us and enables dogs to sense smell to a degree one hundred thousand to one million times greater than humans.”
The second image is a sagittal view of an angel with an ornate circular background. It was apparently inspired by Fra Angelico’s AnnunciatoryAngel (seen below).
And I bet you can’t guess what the last 2 images represent… Praying Hands. The section passes through the large knuckles at the bases of the thumbs. buy intagra online https://apwh.org/wp-content/languages/en/intagra.html no prescription
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If you’re like 50% of the people who watch the first video, you did not notice a gorilla pounding his chest in the middle of the scene. And if you are already familiar with that one, the second video can trick you in a new way. The basic idea of selective attention is that individuals have a tendency to process information from only one part of the environment with the exclusion of other parts. This can be extremely important in every day life. Consider for instance, you are driving through an intersection, and you are only looking for other cars that might hit you. buy sildenafil citrate tadalafil vardenafil online https://blackmenheal.org/wp-content/languages/en/sildenafil-citrate-tadalafil-vardenafil.html no prescription
While focusing on the cars, you may miss seeing a kid crossing on his bicycle.
And even more striking evidence for the importance of selective attention has recently come out of the Wolfe Lab at Harvard, it was demonstrated that radiologists may also suffer from this phenomenon at some level. The radiologists were given the image below…
and were asked to search for cancerous nodules in the image. Surprisingly, 83% of the professionally trained doctors didn’t notice a size-able gorilla shaking its arm at them.
This effect worked because cancerous nodules will show up as white circles on the image, so they are “inattentionally blind” to the black gorilla — the same reason you may have missed the gorilla in the video. buy strong pack online https://blackmenheal.org/wp-content/languages/en/strong-pack.html no prescription
Here’s how one commenter broke it down:
“I’m a radiologist. Air on xray/CT is black. The gorilla in this CT image is black. Black things in the lungs usually have no clinical significance. buy cipro online https://blackmenheal.org/wp-content/languages/en/cipro.html no prescription
Cancer is white. Pneumonia is white. Acute disease (other than a collapsed lung) is white. A collapsed lung is not in this location. While the “fact” that all the radiologists missed the gorilla may be shocking to lay people, the reality is that, given appearance/location/etc in this “experiment”, it just doesn’t matter.”
Gaining a better understanding of how our brain processes information can hopefully lead to safety nets that prevent mistakes.
El laberinto del Minotauro (The Minotaur’s Labyrinth)
Huellas de gigante (Giant Footprints)
Isla arbolada (Wooded Island)
Río doble (Twin River)
Sopetón (Abruptly)
“Our world should be called Water not Earth” – Hector Garrido
As we continue our exploration for water on Mars, I thought it would be nice to share Spanish photographer Hector Garrido’s aerial photographs of the effects of water on Earth. Most planetary scientists make the claim that liquid water is a necessary component for the creation of life as we know it. The biochemical reactions that sustain life need a fluid to work, so even ice and water vapor won’t do the trick. In a liquid, molecules can dissolve and necessary chemical reactions can occur. It is for this reason that NASA searches the vastness of space for evidence of liquid water.
And in regards to these images, Hector Garrido has done an exceptional job capturing the beauty from above. Oscar Wilde famously wrote “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.” The carved out soil from these photographs looks eerily similar to the sulci and gyri of the human brain. It’s fascinating to see biological patterns mirrored at different levels of life.
For more from Hector Garrido, check out his website.
For 7 years, a diligent Japanese custodian worked on the maze you see above. Twitter user @Kya7y (and daughter of the artist) found the drawing recently and posted it for the world to see. Apparently, it was completed almost 30 years ago in his spare time using some pen and ink on A1 size paper (841 x 594 mm).
Surgeon Simulator 2013 was created in less than 48 hours for the Global Game Jam last weekend, and it has since become an internet sensation. YouTube user and “depressed chef” Robbaz hilariously demonstrates some of the gameplay in the video above. The keyboard controls are based on the old track simulator QWOP, which is almost impossible to master. Each finger of the surgeon’s hand is controlled individually by the player, and if that wasn’t hard enough, moving the arm and hand around require a completely different set of controls. buy sinequan online https://www.conci.com/wp-content/languages/en/sinequan.html no prescription
It has been known for quite some time now that people who regularly play video games tend to be better surgeons, or at least better robotic surgeons. So mastering something like the Surgeon Simulator may not be a complete waste of time. buy cipro online https://www.conci.com/wp-content/languages/en/cipro.html no prescription
Bossa Studios plans to release a longer version which may include features like “emergency surgery in the back of an ambulance; more procedures, such as a brain transplant; more tools; and achievements, like performing a heart transplant using only a shard of glass.”
