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Wish I was there right now…

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Wish I was there right now…

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artchipel: Nu Ryu - Forest | Under the water. Pastels on...

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Nu Ryu - Forest | Under the water. Pastels on fabric, 28x44inches (2008)

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Want one sooo bad!

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Want one sooo bad!

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by AngryWhistler

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by AngryWhistler

"Life is meant to be fun. If its not fun, its not worth doing. So please be yourself and enjoy life...."

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:28:52 -0500

“Life is meant to be fun. If its not fun, its not worth doing. So please be yourself and enjoy life. It’s too short to be miserable.”

How the Brain Spots Faces The next time you see the face of...

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:24:08 -0500

How the Brain Spots Faces

The next time you see the face of jesus or a favorite character on an inanimate object or mother nature in general you might want to attribute it to something other than the supernatural.. try the brain.

Our brains are made to find faces. In fact, they’re so good at picking out human-like mugs we sometimes see them in a jumble of rocks, a bilious cloud of volcanic ash or some craters on the Moon.

But another amazing thing about our brain is that we’re never actually fooled into thinking it’s a real person looking back at us. We might do a second take, but most normal brains can tell the difference between a man and the Moon.

Neuroscientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology wanted to investigate how the brain decides exactly what is and is not a face. Earlier studies have shown that the fusiform gyrus, located on the brain’s underside, responds to face-like shapes — but how does it sort flesh from rock?

Pawan Sinha, professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, and students created a procession of images ranging from those that look nothing like faces to genuine faces. For the ones in the middle — structures, formations, smudges and shapes that give us a pareidolic reaction that causes us to see a face — they used photographs that machine vision systems had falsely tagged as faces.

By doing a series of one-to-one comparisons, the human observers rated how face-like each of the images were. And while the subjects sorted out the photographs, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to scan their brains and look for activity.

The neuroscientists found different activity patterns on each side of the brain. On the left, the activity patterns changed very gradually as images became more like faces and there was no clear distinction between faces and non-faces. The left side would flare if someone was looking at a human or an eerily face-like formation of rocks.

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So much crew love for the Puma Sailing Ten.

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So much crew love for the Puma Sailing Ten.