Why Time Slows Down When We’re Afraid, Speeds Up as We Age, and Gets Warped on Vacation
by Maria Popova “Time perception matters because it is the experience of time that roots us in our mental reality.” Given my soft spot for famous diaries, it should come as no surprise that I keep one myself. That’s precisely what acclaimed BBC broadcaster and psychology writer Claudia Hammond explores in Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception (public library) — a fascinating foray into the idea that our experience of time is actively created by our own minds and how these sensations of what neuroscientists and psychologists call “mind time” are created. We construct the experience of time in our minds, so it follows that we are able to change the elements we find troubling — whether it’s trying to stop the years racing past, or speeding up time when we’re stuck in a queue, trying to live more in the present, or working out how long ago we last saw our old friends. And yet the brain does keep track of time, even if inaccurately. Donating = Loving Share on Tumblr
Mapping The World Grid
MAPPING THE WORLD GRID by David Hatcher Childress What is the World Grid? How can it be it mapped? What does it do? Why should we be concerned about it? What does it have to with anti-gravity? In my many travels around the world in search of lost cities and ancient mysteries I have often wondered if there was some link connecting many of the ancient megalithic sites. Are megalithic sites laid out on a grid? In other words, we are speaking about an intelligent geometric pattern into which, theoretically, the Earth and its energies are organized - and possibly in which the ubiquitous ancient megalithic sites are also positioned. What we are speaking of is fundamentally different from longitudinal and latitudinal lines that we are so familiar with from conventional geography. However the familiar image of the Earth as a globe girded in a lattice of longitude and latitude lines helps us understand what an Earth Grid, based on more primary energy lines, might be like. Planetary Grid R. S.
Global Issues : social, political, economic and environmental issues that affect us all
ELEPHANTS From Left to Right: Jean-Antoine Alavoine, Elephant of… | Architects Corner
From Left to Right: Jean-Antoine Alavoine, Elephant of the Bastille, Place de la Bastille, Paris, France, 1814 / James V. Lafferty, The Elephant Hotel, Lucy the Elephant, Margate City, New Jersey, 1882 Pierluigi Nicolin and Italo Rota, Project for Piazza Stamira, Ancona, Italy, 1978 / Bernhard Luginbühl, The Big Boss, 1971 Ancona, ARCHITECTURE, art, Bernhard Luginbühl, colossal, Elephant of the Bastille, Elephantine Colossus, elephants, form, France, Italo Rota, Italy, James V.
Eloge de l'oisiveté
Dans un essai revigorant, “L'Art d'être oisif”, le journaliste fondateur de la revue britannique “The Idler” plaide pour que l'indolence gagne le monde. Nous avons rencontré ce maître à penser de la procrastination. Comment êtes-vous devenu paresseux ? Tom Hodgkinson - J’ai toujours eu une inclination naturelle à la paresse. Comment définiriez-vous l’oisiveté ? Johnson disait que toute personne est, ou aspire à être oisive. >> A lire aussi : La playlist idéale pour glandouiller La paresse n’est pas un comportement que les gens revendiquent facilement. La querelle entre les paresseux et les zélés du travail est très ancienne, archaïque même. Mais je pense que la meilleure époque pour être paresseux était le Moyen Âge. Aujourd’hui, c’est devenu tellement central que des gens acceptent d’avoir des “bullshit jobs”, comme dit l’anthropologue américain David Graeber… >> A lire aussi : Pourquoi multiplie-t-on les boulots à la con ? Pourquoi Baudelaire figure-t-il dans votre Panthéon des oisifs ?
Train Your Brain To Let Go Of Habits – 10 Methods For Creating New Neural Pathways
When you understand how neural pathways are created in the brain, you get a front row seat for truly comprehending how to let go of habits. Neural pathways are like superhighways of nerve cells that transmit messages. You travel over the superhighway many times, and the pathway becomes more and more solid. I used to drive with one foot on the brake and the other on the accelerator, and I wanted to train myself to drive with one foot only. Because of neuroplasticity, the brain’s ever-changing potentials, anything is possible. Whether you work with others on their habits or you work with your own (or both), you can apply these understandings to boost your success. Some Powerful Ways to Retrain the Brain 1. You may remember the punch line “The light bulb has to want to change.” 2. Look at feelings, thoughts, and how the body is responding to the habit, and see what results you’re creating in your life. 3. This is very important. 4. 5. 6. This isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Strange Artifacts, The Stone Spheres of Costa Rica
Introduction One of the strangest mysteries in archaeology was discovered in the Diquis Delta of Costa Rica. Since the 1930s, hundreds of stone balls have been documented, ranging in size from a few centimetres to over two meters in diameter. Some weigh 16 tons. Almost all of them are made of granodiorite, a hard, igneous stone. Balls in the Courtyard of National Museum, San José, Costa Rica. The spheres number over 300. The stones may have come from the bed of the , to where they were transported by natural processes from sources of parent material in the Talamanca mountains. Debunking the "Mystery" of the Stone Balls by John W. The stone balls of Costa Rica have been the object of pseudoscientific speculations since the publication of Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods in 1971. Hundreds of stone balls have been documented in Costa Rica, ranging in size from a few centimeters to over two meters in diameter. The balls have been endangered since the moment of their discovery. Books
Social influence
Morton Deutsch and Harold Gerard described two psychological needs that lead humans to conform to the expectations of others. These include our need to be right (informational social influence), and our need to be liked (normative social influence).[3] Informational influence (or social proof) is an influence to accept information from another as evidence about reality. Informational influence comes into play when people are uncertain, either because stimuli are intrinsically ambiguous or because there is social disagreement. Normative influence is an influence to conform to the positive expectations of others. In terms of Kelman's typology, normative influence leads to public compliance, whereas informational influence leads to private acceptance. Types[edit] Social Influence is a broad term that relates to many different phenomena. Kelman's varieties[edit] 1) Compliance[edit] 2) Identification[edit] 3) Internalization[edit] Conformity[edit] Minority influence[edit] Reactance[edit]
