May 18, 2013


thenewenlightenmentage:

Can Brain Scans Really Tell Us What Makes Something Beautiful?
When art meets neuroscience, strange things happen.
Consider the Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art in Oregon which features rugs and knitting based on a brain scan motif. Or the neuroscientist at the University of Nevada-Reno who scanned the brain of a portrait artist while he drew a picture of a face.
And then there’s the ongoing war of words between scientists who think it’s possible to use analysis of brain activity to define beauty–or even art–and their critics who argue that it’s absurd to try to make sense of something so interpretive and contextual by tying it to biology and the behavior of neurons.
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thenewenlightenmentage:

Can Brain Scans Really Tell Us What Makes Something Beautiful?

When art meets neuroscience, strange things happen.

Consider the Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art in Oregon which features rugs and knitting based on a brain scan motif. Or the neuroscientist at the University of Nevada-Reno who scanned the brain of a portrait artist while he drew a picture of a face.

And then there’s the ongoing war of words between scientists who think it’s possible to use analysis of brain activity to define beauty–or even art–and their critics who argue that it’s absurd to try to make sense of something so interpretive and contextual by tying it to biology and the behavior of neurons.

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May 17, 2013


demmonz:

And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad

The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had

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intangibleinteractions:

I wanna find myself by the sea
In another’s company
by the sea

I wanna go out to the pier
Gonna dive
and have no fear

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May 16, 2013


fartgallery:

4/20? You mean 1/5 reduce your fractions did you even learn math

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May 15, 2013


lulz-time:

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