Category: minimeta

Twitter as social proprioception

I feel some videoing coming on

Free video sharing platform

Art, life, photography, mental health, artifice

Slightly spooky

Increases activity in the left frontal lobe but not clear whether this affects depression itself.

Possibly the best knitting post ever. Look at the pictures!

Meditation and mindfulness as concentration aids. And productivity enhancement. Hmmmmmm.

Portal

Global Voices piece on the rapacity of formula companies

“Look at any major news portal, and you may find as many as 50 hyperlinked stories on its front page. The prevalence of this extensive choice online suggests an assumption that people desire extensive options. In our study, however, we found that having m

In the 13th century, so it is thought, as more people moved into urban centres, the use of underwear increased – which caused an increase in the number of rags available for paper-making.

Birdsong varies over time as well as place. Got to be hip to get the chick.

“The instant gain of employment and investment by a multinational locating in Britain could be outweighed by its potential to kill off a small start-up that in future could employ a greater number of people.”

Up to 7,000 girls in the UK are seen as at risk of this form of circumcision.

The long summer holiday is seen as the most likely time for parents to seek the procedure for their daughter as she has time to recover from what is usually a brutal ordeal b

Meditation in high-security prison in Alabama – the film and the book

Podcasts on nanotechnology.

Art and neuroscience… hot damn! my very extra specially interesting area of interest.

I find it astonishing that this has ever been in doubt. I mean already years ago we were told “it’s life, Jim, but not as we know it.”

“Australian PhD researcher Dylan DeLosAngeles, at the Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide, shows that mediation produces changes in brainwaves usually associated with increased alertness.”

Readers’ Digest for telly?

Interesting issues raised here, of worth/value, lindens, jurisdiction etc. I still find 2nd life itself utterly dull though.

And only shown for three days. That’s, uh, 25 2/3 million paintings a day. Crikey.

Oh yes they are. And from only a few weeks of age. And it only gets worse. And more complex. And they they’re adults 🙂

Meditation in prisons group, Canada

A single electrical circuit is responsible, and can be seen thanks to a new, fast, non-invasive imagine technique – voltage-sensitive dye imaging

Love, grief and copyright