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Timm Ulrichs, Der Findling, 1978/80/2.-3.5.1981.
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Todd Hale
‘Ancestors’, 2013, photo montage
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This is so good and it goes on and on - Mapping Stereotypes -The ultimate bigot’s calendar of Europe by Yanko Tsvetkov —> Stolen from @lafaust...
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“Kiri et Goldorak”, huile sur toile, 80 x 80 cm. Caroline Maurel.
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Elsa Mora http://www.artisaway.com/ is an artist who paints, works with ceramics, makes paper cut-outs and tiny artists’ books.
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US President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in Oklahoma after a 3km-wide tornado packing winds of up to 320kph tore through the state...
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untitled by baquerovich* on Flickr.
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18 posts tagged Brain
The Braincar is the creation of artist Olaf Mooij. He drives it around during the day, while a camera on top of the brain records videos of his travels. Then, during the night, he plays back the videos by projecting them onto the inner surface of the brain. As if the brain were dreaming…
Broccoli Handshake
Broccoli handshake is an interactive sculpture, representing the thought process of the human brain. Activated when the viewer approaches it; five separate clusters of light bulbs (over 800 bulbs used) in different sizes and heights, burst into life franticly flickering and flashing creating a mechanical representation of thought process. And the name ‘broccoli handshake’ is used to do just that; stimulate the viewers thought. In effect this work is a representation of the thought process it stimulates.
Pigeons Can Learn Higher Math as Well as Monkeys
By now, the intelligence of birds is well known. Alex the African gray parrot had great verbal skills. Scrub jays, which hide caches of seeds and other food, have remarkable memories. And New Caledonian crows make and use tools in ways that would put the average home plumber to shame.
Pigeons, it turns out, are no slouches either. It was known that they could count. But all sorts of animals, including bees, can count. Pigeons have now shown that they can learn abstract rules about numbers, an ability that until now had been demonstrated only in primates. In the 1990s scientists trained rhesus monkeys to look at groups of items on a screen and to rank them from the lowest number of items to the highest.
They learned to rank groups of one, two and three items in various sizes and shapes. When tested, they were able to do the task even when unfamiliar numbers of things were introduced. In other words, having learned that two was more than one and three more than two, they could also figure out that five was more than two, or eight more than six.
Damian Scarf, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Otago, in New Zealand, tried the same experiment with pigeons, and he and two colleagues report in the current issue of the journal Science that the pigeons did just as well as the monkeys.
» via The New York Times (Subscription may be required for some content)
(via proofmathisbeautiful)
The BrainCar by Olaf Mooji
From WHOA:
The BrainCar was created by Rotterdam artist, Olaf Mooji, and is a mobile sculpture that features a brain-like extrusion on the back of a modified used car. During the day, the vehicle drives around (operated by a human driver, obviously) and captures and stores images and video from its travels. During the night, the footage is remixed and projected from within the brain sculpture and visible to passersby on the outside. Mooji’s body of work involves the alteration of motor vehicles in pieces that express the nearly psychological connection between drivers and their cars. In the case of the BrainCar, Mooji wondered what it would be like if “…the car itself could experience with a kind of consciousness its own passage through spacetime.”
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The Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art
A collection of textile / knitting work related to the brain:
This is the world’s largest collection of anatomically correct fabric brain art. Inspired by research from neuroscience, dissection and neuroeconomics, our current exhibition features a rug based on fMRI imaging, a knitted brain from dissection, and three quilts with functional images from PET. The artists are Marjorie Taylor and Karen Norberg. Techniques used include traditional Nova Scotian rug hooking, quilting, applique, embroidery, beadwork, knitting, and crocheting. Materials include fabric, yarn, metallic threads, electronic components such as magnetic core memory, and wire, zippers, and beads.
Chicago, 2011 (by PterodactylPants Plush)
Today: Neuroscientist David Eagleman explains why everything we do, think and believe is determined by neural processes in our unconscious brain.
Men and women can now thank a dozen brain regions for their romantic fervor. Researchers have revealed the fonts of desire by comparing functional MRI studies of people who indicated they were experiencing passionate love, maternal love or unconditional love. Together, the regions release neurotransmitters and other chemicals in the brain and blood that prompt greater euphoric sensations such as attraction and pleasure. Conversely, psychiatrists might someday help individuals who become dangerously depressed after a heartbreak by adjusting those chemicals.
(via gjmueller)
Cellphone Use Tied to Changes in Brain Activity
Researchers from the National Institutes of Health have found that less than an hour of cellphone use can speed up brain activity in the area closest to the phone antenna, raising new questions about the health effects of low levels of radiation emitted from cellphones.
Full Story: New York Times
