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Geronimo Braveheart Absolute Time, Relative Experience | Who is the Man with the Name that Rhymes? It's been a while since another post. There are many topics that I have cached that I'd like to write on. If it weren't for the troubling aspect of so many things eating at my free time, you'd see more posts on here. Lately, an intriguing concept for me has been time. In physics, time is a duration between 2 events or physical states. Psychologically, however, time is a different creature. The brain isn't like a clock. The easiest way to explain temporal resolution is to compare to something like a video camera. But the brain isn't like a video camera either. So how does that relate back to feeling of time perception? To explain how this relates, I'll use the most common influence that everyone has first experience with: aging. In the first day of elementary school, you have to go through a lot of new things which are almost always, for good or bad, memorable: learning to wake up on a certain time, learning how to read, meeting new friends, learning all your teachers, etc.

Dragonfly Planes ~ The Future of Flight We can learn so much from nature. So much so, that if we modeled all of our technology off of the basic principles of how nature operates, we would be in very good hands. Using the law of conservation of energy, we would make sure that all power was used to the most efficient and effective means possible. For example, modelling our Solar Panels off of Photosynthesis, free energy becomes as commonplace as cars on roads… or sliced bread! These are actual planes in the air all at the same time! In this video, Louie Schwartzberg describes a movie that he has been working on for a while, which brings a level of awareness to “That which is Unseen”. The most exciting part to me was the Dragonflies. Imagine if you had your own little Dragonfly jet they could fly around anywhere you wanted? There’s only one word I can use to describe it… Badass!

How to Make a Baby We made this video using a technique called "pixilation", which is a fancy term for stop-motion animation done with real people instead of puppets. We shot it, frame by frame, with Raquel's Canon DSLR over a period of nine months. Those of you who stopped by our house might have noticed some mysterious tape marks on the floor in the living room. Those were for the camera tripod and our feet. Animating over such a long period of time, using an increasingly pregnant woman as one of your puppets, means basically throwing out everything you might normally do in an animated film. What emerged was a style you might call WYGIWYG: What You Get Is What You Get. This scattershot approach turned out to have a nice side effect: the 360 or so frames of raw footage had hundreds of possible interpretations, depending on how you shuffled the frames. The raw footage was really messy. All of the images you see were captured in-camera.

What Are Indigo and Crystal Children and Adults Spanish/Espanol How do you know if you, or someone you know, is an Indigo or Crystal Child or Adult? We will describe the main features and characteristics of these people. The Indigo Children have been incarnating on the Earth for the last 100 years. The Crystal Children began to appear on the planet from about 2000, although some date them slightly earlier. The Indigo and Crystal Adults are composed of two groups. The following extract describes the difference between Indigo and Crystal Children. The first thing most people notice about Crystal Children is their eyes, large, penetrating, and wise beyond their years. The older children (approximately age 7 through 25), called "indigo Children", share some characteristics with the Crystal Children. Those adults who resist change and who value conformity may misunderstand the Indigos. The terms "Indigo" and "Crystal" were given to these two generations because they most accurately describe their aura colours and energy patterns.

This Is Roughly 200 Years Of American History In One Mesmerizing GIF There's a ton of juicy stuff in this incredible map. Couple of takeaways for me: 1. 2. What caught your eye about this map, Internet? Click image to Zoom If this whole show is moving a little too quickly for you, here it is broken down frame-by-frame. Clarification: This map takes on history from the lens of how America became 50 states.

Ants Are Capable of Changing Their Priorities Ants are highly social and they must work together to provide food and shelter for the entire colony. It has recently been discovered that there is no set hierarchy on the importance of these aspects, as ants are capable of learning from previous experience to assess a current situation and determine what is most important at that time. Takao Sasaki and Stephen C. Pratt from Arizona State University’s School of Life Sciences have published their findings in Biology Letters. Ants have many options to consider when looking for a new place to live. While house-hunting, humans may have to tradeoff between things like yard size and proximity to a highway. This level of intelligence has not been previously described in ants. Future research will go deeper into exploring ant behavior to better understand how individuals work together for the betterment of the colony.

25 Killer Websites that Make You Cleverer It’s easy to forget that we have access to a virtually limitless resource of information, i.e. the Internet. For a lot of us, this is even true at our fingertips, thanks to the ubiquity of smartphones and an ever-increasing push for online greatness by tech engineers all over the world. As a result, there are countless websites out there that are geared to make you smarter and more brilliant for either a low or no cost. Here are just 25 killer websites that may just make you more clever than ever before. 1. This isn’t the first time I’ve recommended this language-teaching website (and app), and it certainly won’t be the last. 2. Have you ever wanted to pick up a subject you’re not well-versed in, but you didn’t have the money to invest in a college course? 3. Guitar is one of the few instruments out there that’s actually pretty easy to learn if you’re a little older, making it one of the most accessible instruments. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23.

Power robs the brain of empathy Researchers have some new insights into how power diminishes a person's capacity for empathy. According to scientists, a sense of power shuts down a part of the brain that helps us connect with others. For their study that builds on past information about how the brain operates, the researchers found that even the smallest bit of power - for instance from a job promotion or more money - can shut down our ability to empathize with others. Sukhvinder Obhi, a neuroscientist at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada and his colleagues Jeremy Hogeveen and Michael Inzlicht, conducted an experiment that shows people in charge can lose their ability to be compassionate because power affects the mirror system of the brain. Read more...

Time Is an Illusion: Past, Present, and Future All Exist Now [MUST SEE VIDEO] Conscious Life News | “People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” – Albert Einstein Brian Greene, Professor of Physics and Mathematics at Columbia University, presents interesting information about the nature of space-time, including an explanation of how past, present, and future all exist in the now. Time. We waste it, save it, kill it, make it. In search of answers, Prof. Brian Greene’s website – Complete show here: The Illusion of Time Video Source: Willow Star YouTube Channel

BBC - Earth News - Ant mega-colony takes over world A queen and worker Argentine ant have many, many relatives A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered. Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony, and will refuse to fight one another. The colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and could rival humans in the scale of its world domination. What's more, people are unwittingly helping the mega-colony stick together. Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) were once native to South America. These introduced Argentine ants are renowned for forming large colonies, and for becoming a significant pest, attacking native animals and crops. In Europe, one vast colony of Argentine ants is thought to stretch for 6,000km (3,700 miles) along the Mediterranean coast, while another in the US, known as the "Californian large", extends over 900km (560 miles) along the coast of California. One big family