February 2012
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WatchDo not sit in silence.
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Love Ruler : Neuroscience and the "love" emotion
bartholomewfromthesun:
Video of researchers using an MRI to scan the brains of 5 volunteers, searching for indications of who can generate the most intense feelings of love.
http://machineslikeus.com/videos/love-competition
6 Types of Love
Eros a passionate physical and emotional love based on aesthetic enjoyment; stereotype of romantic love
Ludus a love that is played as a game or sport; conquest; may have multiple partners at once
Storge an affectionate love that slowly develops from friendship, based on similarity
Pragma love that is driven by the head, not the heart
Mania obsessive love; experience great emotional highs...
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Music and Intelligence
thisisnotpsychology:
Brain development is still incomplete at birth. Early experiences that stimulate the brain are involved in enhancing its neural growth. A child’s brain develops its full potential with exposure to enriching experiences in early childhood. These stimuli received during the early parts of childhood are thus crucial to brain growth and connections made in nerve cell networks....
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Dunbar's Number: Who Do You Care About?
thepsychologicult:
Dunbar’s Number is definitely one of my all-time favorite concepts in Psychology. It’s basically an idea that says a person can only know so many people before they stop really knowing people. In other words, how many best friends can you really have before they all start fading into just friends, acquaintances, strangers.
Anthropoligist Robin Dunbar had several estimates...
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“Of course, this is one of the profound ways in which oppression works—to mire us...”
– Eli Clare, “Stolen Bodies, Reclaimed Bodies” (via thenewwomensmovement)
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“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire...”
– Elwyn Brooks White (via dreambyte)
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“I am the eye with which the Universe
Beholds itself, and knows it is divine.”
– Song of Apollo, Percy Bysshe Shelley (via dreambyte)
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since feeling is first- E.E. Cummings
whiferdill:
since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers. Don’t cry —the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids’ flutter which says we are for each other: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for...
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“And the time will come when you see we’re all one, and life flows on within you...”
– Within You, Without You - The Beatles (via d-u-s-k)
This reminds me of Walt Whitman: “All goes onward and outward….and nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
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It’s two in the morning and I cannot stop pulling my hair and dozing off simultaneously, while trying to complete my critical analysis for AP English. I can’t do this tonight.
See how Japan has rebuilt in the 11 months since... →
ninomae-hajime:
The pictures brought tears to my eyes. It’s been 11 months - to some, perhaps the longest eleven months of their lives. The determination and perseverance of this country is why I love Japan very much.
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Oskar?
loveyourchaos:
I’m OK.
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