I cannot check anything in my reader, not the blogs I follow, not notifications.
What to do?
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus
June 30, 2012
I cannot check anything in my reader, not the blogs I follow, not notifications.
What to do?
June 29, 2012
Birds, nature, postaday, Wildlife photography weekly-photo-challenge-fleeting-moment 27 Comments
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/06/29/weekly-photo-challenge-fleeting-moment/
And for a fleeting moment he perched on her arm.
June 28, 2012
Brain science, interesting facts, People, postaday, Psychology, science, technology, The brain 26 Comments
You probably are and you are not even aware of it.
Racism is hardwired into the brain, say scientists – and it operates unconsciously.
The same circuits in the brain that allow us to see which ethnic group a person belongs to overlap with others that drive emotional decisions.
The result is that even right-thinking individuals make unconscious decisions based on a person’s race.
Brain scans have proved that interactions with people of other ethnic backgrounds set off reactions that may be completely unknown to our conscious selves.
The finding may force researchers to think about racism in entirely new ways.
It’s possible, the researchers say, that even right-thinking, ‘egalitarian’ people could harbour racist attitudes without knowing.
The chemicals involved in perceiving ethnic backgrounds overlap with those for processing emotion and making decisions, according to new research.
And the findings published in Nature Neuroscience could lead to fresh ways of thinking about unintended race-based attitudes and decisions.
June 27, 2012
Uncategorized France, http://jakesprinters.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/sunday-post-village/, Peter Mayle, photography, places 21 Comments
http://jakesprinters.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/sunday-post-village/
So by the way did you ever read ‘MY YEAR IN PROVENCE” by Peter Mayle?
This is Gordes, not too far from where he lived.
June 23, 2012
pets, Photography, postaday photography, photoshop, postaday, Weekly Photo Challenge: Create 32 Comments
There are so many artistic and creative bloggers here, I almost hate to ‘compete’!
We are in the middle of winter so I have te create my memory of what it looks like in my garden in summer.
But let me tell you Hasie (our rabbit ) is creative too. He has created holes in the gate to the tool shed, (even though the fence was put up in haste to keep him in if ever there were danger like dogs).
The Artist!
June 22, 2012
Brain science, infamous people, Norway massacre, People, Psychology, Psychpathic killers, The brain amygdala, Anders Breivik, lack of empathy, The Psychopath Test 25 Comments
I have blogged this previously but it is in the news again.
‘I would have done it again’ Anders Breivik
Devoid of shame or an ounce of remorse about massacring defenceless teenagers, Breivik appears tormented by his failure to go to university.
Then I read a review on the book The Psychopath Test where Hare ( I think he is an academic) and I quote from the Amazon review explains the science of psychopathology: a part of the brain called the amygdala doesn’t function in psychopaths as it does in other human beings. When a regular person experiences extreme violence or carnage (or even photographs of such scenes), his amygdala becomes overstimulated, provoking an extreme anxiety response in the central nervous system. When a psychopath experiences the same stimuli, his amygdala does not respond: no anxiety response occurs. This explains the psychopath’s lack of empathy.
This is a theory of course but does this mean psychopaths are not responsible for their actions?
Which implies of course that these monsters and perpetrators should be excused.
What a sad and cruel world
I do believe although he may well be responsible for his actions he should be sent to an asylum so that he will be locked up for the remainder of his ‘natural’ life. Furthermore I question the theory postulated here because you will have to test thousands and thousands of psychopaths before you can come tho this conclusion. Even then it still would not be a fact.
June 20, 2012
Insects, interesting facts, nature, postaday, science, technology drones, Fly on the wall, spy-work, technology 24 Comments
Think about what advantages this could present to you if you simply have to know!
Over recent years a range of miniature drones, or micro air vehicles (MAVs), based on the same physics used by flying insects, have been presented to the public.
The University of Pennsylvania GRASP Lab recently showed off drones that swarm, a network of 20 nano quadrotors flying in synchronized formations.
Scientists have taken their inspiration from animals which have evolved over millennia to the perfect conditions for flight.
Read more here
June 19, 2012
Uncategorized Handbags, stuff, Things, what is in your handbag? 30 Comments
Men usually want to know what ladies have in their handbags (also purse or pouch in American English) because it seems full of ‘stuff’ but it is always an endless scratching and searching without coming up with the goodies! And if a cell phone rings, it is a catastrophe if it is hidden away in the bag….They suspect the kitchen sink is in there somewhere too!
In mine:-
Red purse (American wallet?) with credit cards, some cash, my ID and driver’s licensee.
A Pen (well most of the time).
Lipstick and lip-gloss
A spare contact lens
Small bottle of perfume
My asthma pump
Some sweets which you get when you pay at a restaurant
Small pack of tissues
Waterless handwash
Keys
And sometimes my camera.
June 19, 2012
A-Z Archive, Birds, nature, Photography, postaday, Wildlife photography a-z Archive – Y, national geographic, yellow weaver 16 Comments
Yellow Weavers.
http://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2012/06/19/a-z-archive-y-challenge/#comment-20356
Interesting little birds and when they build nest the ‘wife’ will unpick until she finds something to her liking. But something very interesting which we experienced while we were having lunch at the West Coast restaurant (We went to see the Wildflowers). On the tables were those little envelopes with cane sugar (in white little bags) and artificial sweetener (in red little envelopes). Whilst these weavers were so furiously building nest they would swoop down and take an envelope to eat in the nest. And most of them took the RED envelopes with the artificial sweetener
Colour speaks!
Not such a good photo
The photo below comes from NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC.
A – Z Archive Z Challenge
June 26, 2012
Fletcher A-Z Archive, Photography, postaday, Wildlife photography a-z archive Z, http://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/a-z-archive-z-challenge/ 19 Comments
Do I have to introduce them?