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gaara-nile: Sera on We Heart It -...

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 07:29:04 -0800

Sera on We Heart It - http://weheartit.com/entry/54230527/via/smerajec

"Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it’s being..."

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 23:08:28 -0800

““Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it’s being held.” - Woody Allen (On Youth and Age)”

"FOLK NEUROSCIENCE Popular misconceptions ■ The “left-brain” is rational, the “right-brain” is..."

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 07:00:21 -0800

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FOLK NEUROSCIENCE Popular misconceptions

■ The “left-brain” is rational, the “right-brain” is creative
The hemispheres have different specialisations (the left usually has key language areas, for example) but there is no clear rational-creative split and you need both hemispheres to be successful at either. You can no more do right-brain thinking than you can do rear-brain thinking.

■ Dopamine is a pleasure chemical
Dopamine has many functions in the brain, from supporting concentration to regulating the production of breast milk. Even in its most closely associated functioning it is usually considered to be involved in motivation (wanting) rather than the feeling of pleasure itself.

■ Low serotonin causes depression
A concept almost entirely promoted by pharmaceutical companies in the 1980s and 90s to sell serotonin-enhancing drugs like Prozac. No consistent evidence for it.

■ Video games, TV violence, porn or any other social spectre of the moment “rewires the brain”
Everything “rewires the brain” as the brain works by making and remaking connections. This is often used in a contradictory fashion to suggest that the brain is both particularly susceptible to change but once changed, can’t change back.

■ We have no control over our brain but we can control our mind
The mind and the brain are the same thing described in different ways and they make us who we are. Trying to suggest one causes the other is like saying wetness causes water.

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- Vaughan Bell debunks the myths of “folk neuroscience.” Also see how neuroscience became popular culture. (via explore-blog)
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Principles of Geometry

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 23:09:12 -0800

Principles of Geometry :

Makes you want to make a short film. Baseball Furies behind the scenes.

Photo

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:52:35 -0700

my nephew is boss #twoface (Taken with instagram)

Fri, 11 May 2012 15:34:05 -0700

my nephew is boss #twoface (Taken with instagram)

my nephew sent me another masterpiece #batman (Taken with...

Fri, 11 May 2012 15:26:48 -0700

my nephew sent me another masterpiece #batman (Taken with instagram)

fullbloom: dead bird 1 (by m. lewandowski)

Mon, 07 May 2012 07:09:49 -0700

fullbloom:

dead bird 1 (by m. lewandowski)

firsttimeuser: Three Dimensional Comics..

Sun, 06 May 2012 15:48:46 -0700

firsttimeuser:

Three Dimensional Comics..

"Te amo como se aman ciertas cosas oscuras, secretamente, entre la sombra y el alma.” (I love..."

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:32:00 -0700

““Te amo como se aman ciertas cosas oscuras, secretamente, entre la sombra y el alma.”
(I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.)
- Pablo Neruda”