rules for self:
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be more positive
be less judgmental
no caffeine
no redbull
plan meals- fresh fruit/ vegetable as frequently as possible
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if i am wonderful, so are you.
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A Couple in the Street, 1887 CHARLES ANGRAND
From SEED Magazine:
To answer our most fundamental questions, Science needs to find a place for the Arts.
By Jonah Lehrer
Human eyes are horizontally offset from each other, and the visual system uses that offset to calculate depth. When an object is fixated upon, images are cast on the same place on each retina.
A view with many identical (or similar) objects casts multiple images on the eyes, which can either be correctly matched, giving a flat impression, or mismatched, so one image corresponds to the other, but at a different depth.
I think that the artists from the impressionist and post-impressionist periods figured this out. They said they could paint air and managed to do so by creating false stereopsis cues, which manipulate depth perception. So Angrand’s painting actually looks more three-dimensional when you view the painting with both eyes instead of with a single eye.
—Margaret Livingstone, Neuroscientist, Harvard University
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In the early 1920s, Niels Bohr was struggling to reimagine the structure of matter. Previous generations of physicists had thought the inner space of an atom looked like a miniature solar system with the atomic nucleus as the sun and the whirring electrons as planets in orbit. This was the classical model.
But Bohr had spent time analyzing the radiation emitted by electrons, and he realized that science needed a new metaphor. The behavior of electrons seemed to defy every conventional explanation. As Bohr said, “When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.” Ordinary words couldn’t capture the data.
Bohr had long been fascinated by cubist paintings. As the intellectual historian Arthur Miller notes, he later filled his study with abstract still lifes and enjoyed explaining his interpretation of the art to visitors. For Bohr, the allure of cubism was that it shattered the certainty of the object. The art revealed the fissures in everything, turning the solidity of matter into a surreal blur.
Bohr’s discerning conviction was that the invisible world of the electron was essentially a cubist world. By 1923, de Broglie had already determined that electrons could exist as either particles or waves. What Bohr maintained was that the form they took depended on how you looked at them. Their very nature was a consequence of our observation. This meant that electrons weren’t like little planets at all. Instead, they were like one of Picasso’s deconstructed guitars, a blur of brushstrokes that only made sense once you stared at it. The art that looked so strange was actually telling the truth.
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An excellent article on the role of Art in Science.](http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxfns7yoe31qaxrh5o1_500.jpg)
A Couple in the Street, 1887
CHARLES ANGRANDFrom SEED Magazine:
To answer our most fundamental questions, Science needs to find a place for the Arts.
By Jonah Lehrer
Human eyes are horizontally offset from each other, and the visual system uses that offset to calculate depth. When an object is fixated upon, images are cast on the same place on each retina.
A view with many identical (or similar) objects casts multiple images on the eyes, which can either be correctly matched, giving a flat impression, or mismatched, so one image corresponds to the other, but at a different depth.
I think that the artists from the impressionist and post-impressionist periods figured this out. They said they could paint air and managed to do so by creating false stereopsis cues, which manipulate depth perception. So Angrand’s painting actually looks more three-dimensional when you view the painting with both eyes instead of with a single eye.
—Margaret Livingstone, Neuroscientist, Harvard University
~
In the early 1920s, Niels Bohr was struggling to reimagine the structure of matter. Previous generations of physicists had thought the inner space of an atom looked like a miniature solar system with the atomic nucleus as the sun and the whirring electrons as planets in orbit. This was the classical model.
But Bohr had spent time analyzing the radiation emitted by electrons, and he realized that science needed a new metaphor. The behavior of electrons seemed to defy every conventional explanation. As Bohr said, “When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.” Ordinary words couldn’t capture the data.
Bohr had long been fascinated by cubist paintings. As the intellectual historian Arthur Miller notes, he later filled his study with abstract still lifes and enjoyed explaining his interpretation of the art to visitors. For Bohr, the allure of cubism was that it shattered the certainty of the object. The art revealed the fissures in everything, turning the solidity of matter into a surreal blur.
Bohr’s discerning conviction was that the invisible world of the electron was essentially a cubist world. By 1923, de Broglie had already determined that electrons could exist as either particles or waves. What Bohr maintained was that the form they took depended on how you looked at them. Their very nature was a consequence of our observation. This meant that electrons weren’t like little planets at all. Instead, they were like one of Picasso’s deconstructed guitars, a blur of brushstrokes that only made sense once you stared at it. The art that looked so strange was actually telling the truth.
An excellent article on the role of Art in Science.
as Barack Obama. Not a single one.
Someone I know has a photo up on his Facebook, saying, “This is the best Christmas gift (idea) ever. If I come across these, I’ll sell sheets of 5 for 25 cents.”
It was a fucking roll of toilet paper with a picture of Barack Obamas’…
Anyone who thinks the class war is being waged by the poor upon the rich needs to pull hir head out of hir ass.
“David’s Bridal claims that the gowns, most of which retailed for more than your first car, couldn’t be donated due to contractual obligations to high-end designers. Worried about the “brand dilution,” the suppliers don’t want their brand-new gowns filling a thrift store rack[…]”
*Slow clap*
YOU FUCKING GUYS
WATCH THIS SHIT
CNN, EXPLAIN YOURSELF
It’s like you can literally see people in a control room scrambling to pull out some feed wires the moment he starts criticizing foreign policy on live tv..
Holy shit that was hilarious.
This needs to go viral
ROFL
So brilliant.
you mean he doesn’t love fighting for our freedom cough i mean oil?
woooooooow
this has been the longest 2 and a half hours in my life. there’s really not much of a reason… i’m being overly critical of myself and paranoid of everything else. i have felt so scared and dreadful all the time for the past few weeks. i’ve lost it. i find it difficult to get myself to concentrate on anything besides myself or possible (most of the time unrealistic) threats to my well being. i am miserable and self centered. i am not in control of my feelings, i feel that they are often inappropriate even if they aren’t very strong. this is frustrating. i need to start eating better, exercising, and sleeping well. we could all use that.
