August 2011
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“The colors seemed to have gone out of the world.”
– Marilyn Monroe
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Pulsar Transformed Into Small Planet Made of... →
thanatesque:
A once-massive star that’s been transformed into a small planet made of diamond: that’s what astronomers think they’ve found in our Milky Way.
A star is torn
The team thinks that the ‘diamond planet’ is all that remains of a once-massive star, most of whose matter was siphoned off towards the pulsar.
Pulsar J1719-1438 is a very fast-spinning pulsar — what’s called a ...
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“You are gravity
and from the moment I wake
I’m pulled back to you.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott) (via quote-book)
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BBC News - IBM produces first 'brain chips' →
IBM has developed a microprocessor which it claims comes closer than ever to replicating the human brain.
The system is capable of “rewiring” its connections as it encounters new information, similar to the way biological synapses work.
Researchers believe that that by replicating that feature, the technology could start to learn.
Cognitive computers may eventually be used for understanding...
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“Everyone is asking why. It’s simple, really. We are the network’s golden child...”
– Amy Berg (Executive producer, writer, and my friend who hired me), on why Eureka was canceled. (via wilwheaton)
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The Neuroscience of Changing Toxic Thinking... →
psychotherapy:
A very helpful overview of the interplay between our conscious and unconscious minds, and the role our own thoughts play in determining how we act and feel.
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Whether you understand its messages or not, your subconscious continually communicates with you through emotion-based action-signals to let you know where you are in relation to where you want to be. You’re not...
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Beyond space-time: Welcome to phase space →
metaconscious:
A theory of reality beyond Einstein’s universe is taking shape – and a mysterious cosmic signal could soon fill in the blanks
It wasn’t so long ago we thought space and time were the absolute and unchanging scaffolding of the universe. Then along came Albert Einstein, who showed that different observers can disagree about the length of objects and the timing of events. His theory...
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Existence: What is the self? →
aminotes:
“Our sense of self is not an entity in its own right, but emerges from general purpose processes in the brain.
Seth Gillihan and Martha Farah of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia have proposed a view of the self that has three strands: the physical self (which arises from our sense of embodiment); the psychological self (which comprises our subjective point-of-view,...
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