Curiosities
Gathering the exponential good stuff on the web Jun 22
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
The Lesson of the Monkeys | Jason Wells
Home > uncategorized > The Lesson of the Monkeys I was first told of this experiment* by a former work colleague, and later discovered this illustration of it. It’s both illuminating and disturbing. There is a clunky word that describes this phenomenon: filiopietism, or the reverence of forebears or tradition carried to excess.
From Mycoted Shown above are four men buried up to their necks in the ground. They cannot move, so they can only look forward.
Four Men in Hats
by Maria Popova “We are living in an age when sleep is more comfortable than ever and yet more elusive.” The Ancient Greeks believed that one fell asleep when the brain filled with blood and awakened once it drained back out. Nineteenth-century philosophers contended that sleep happened when the brain was emptied of ambitions and stimulating thoughts. “If sleep doesn’t serve an absolutely vital function, it is the greatest mistake evolution ever made,” biologist Allan Rechtschaffen once remarked. Even today, sleep remains one of the most poorly understood human biological functions, despite some recent strides in understanding the “social jetlag” of our internal clocks and the relationship between dreaming and depression .
Dreamland: What Happens While You Sleep and How It Affects Your Every Waking Moment
Alan S. Kennedy's Color/Language Project - The Idiom List
Alan S. Kennedy's Color/Language Project If you see a gap or an inaccuracy that you can help us fix, tell us via the contribution form ! ENGLISH LANGUAGE color idioms are at the very end.How Our Economy Got Messed Up
Home > Fun Section > How Our Economy Got Messed Up Linda is the proprietor of a bar in Cork. In order to increase sales, she decides to allow her loyal customers - most of whom are unemployed alcoholics - to drink now but pay later. She keeps track of the drinks consumed on a ledger [thereby granting the customers loans].
Robot For President YouTube - Hitler Banned From iSketch! Content Aware Image Resizing (found by J-Roen) SeaDragon @ TED The Bad Signage Pool Dice Stacking Fantoche (2 times) RENT - online auditions Polo without the horse 3d motion portrait Fruit Vessel Monkey Loves Pigeon Jessica the Pet Hippo (found by Julia ) Treadmill Madness Bending Light Sleeping Concert In Spain Partial Face Transplants Cop riding Segway runs down suspect color matching coffee cup São Paulo No Logo super fun happy slide
Exciting Links for Boring Days
Very cool illusion: the magic of the disappearing dots
Very cool illusion: the magic of the disappearing dots If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, you will only see one color, pink. If you stare at the black + in the center, the moving dot turns to green.
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2012 March 12
2012 March 12 - The Scale of the Universe Interactive
Edit Edited by Sondra C, Choicefresh, Jack Herrick, Krystle and 265 others Lucid dreaming is awareness of the fact that you are dreaming. This awareness can range from very faint recognition of the fact to something as momentous as a broadening of awareness beyond what has ever been experienced even in waking life.
How to Lucid Dream: 16 steps