Friday, September 27, 2002
posted by taz at September 27 1:27 AM. A professor of vision science at MIT understands that life isn't just black and white, even though we often see it that way. This amazing illusion proves it, and these slick, fast-loading, Flash demonstrations of lightness perception show how it's done. (My favorite is the "Koffka Ring".) White paper here, for deeper background. [MetaFilter]
- Posted by Richard Chlopan - 3:12:21 PM -
- Posted by Richard Chlopan - 3:12:21 PM -
Go for it!.
- Posted by Richard Chlopan - 3:07:13 PM -
Tom the Dancing Bug. U.S. to bomb Antarctica! [Salon.com]
[Curiouser and curiouser!]» Excellent! For once U.S. foreign policy makes sense!
- Posted by Richard Chlopan - 3:07:13 PM -
posted by MintSauce at September 27 9:50 AM. Blondes 'to die out in 200 years' . The last natural blondes will die out within 200 years, scientists believe. A study by experts in Germany suggests people with blonde hair are an endangered species and will become extinct by 2202.
[Insert blonde joke here] [MetaFilter] - Posted by Richard Chlopan - 2:54:46 PM -
[Insert blonde joke here] [MetaFilter]
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WORTH THINKING ABOUT: HEARTBEAT READJUSTMENT
In his autobiography, the actor James Earl Jones describes his unorthodox method for getting the stress of city life out of his system:
"City people have a hard time handling the silences when they first come out to the country. After a certain period of solitude, I myself experiencing an aloneness that is sometimes disturbing, but the country eventually cleanses my spirit and purges my body of the sounds, fumes and toxins of urban life. I think cities feed psychological stress and tension in many ways, including an overload of electrical forces and energy. When you go to a country cabin without electricity, you will be surprised at how tensions fall away.
"Some practitioners advocate that urban dwellers removed from the country find a space in the yard or the garden and dig a hole deep enough to enfold the body. Lie down in the hole. Make sure your body can lie just below the surface of the ground. Stay in this hollow of earth. You will be surprised how rested you will feel simply because you have escaped for a moment the man-made influences. You have retreated for a moment to Mother Earth's very simple electrical systems. For the chemical and electrical balance of the body to be calibrated, you have to stay close to the earth itself, align yourself with its polarity so that your body can find harmony between the interior world and the exterior universe.
"Once we become detached from nature, we begin to think we can do without it. The lights of the Great White Way overpower the stars. It is very hard to see the brightest constellation when you live in or near a city. The dark solitude of the country reunites you with the universe of the stars. The woods and hills restore in you something primal in yourself. The sea's pulse sets your own heartbeat." - Posted by Richard Chlopan - 2:52:29 PM -
In his autobiography, the actor James Earl Jones describes his unorthodox method for getting the stress of city life out of his system:
"City people have a hard time handling the silences when they first come out to the country. After a certain period of solitude, I myself experiencing an aloneness that is sometimes disturbing, but the country eventually cleanses my spirit and purges my body of the sounds, fumes and toxins of urban life. I think cities feed psychological stress and tension in many ways, including an overload of electrical forces and energy. When you go to a country cabin without electricity, you will be surprised at how tensions fall away.
"Some practitioners advocate that urban dwellers removed from the country find a space in the yard or the garden and dig a hole deep enough to enfold the body. Lie down in the hole. Make sure your body can lie just below the surface of the ground. Stay in this hollow of earth. You will be surprised how rested you will feel simply because you have escaped for a moment the man-made influences. You have retreated for a moment to Mother Earth's very simple electrical systems. For the chemical and electrical balance of the body to be calibrated, you have to stay close to the earth itself, align yourself with its polarity so that your body can find harmony between the interior world and the exterior universe.
"Once we become detached from nature, we begin to think we can do without it. The lights of the Great White Way overpower the stars. It is very hard to see the brightest constellation when you live in or near a city. The dark solitude of the country reunites you with the universe of the stars. The woods and hills restore in you something primal in yourself. The sea's pulse sets your own heartbeat."
- Posted by Richard Chlopan - 2:52:29 PM -
