On 3/30/2023 at 1:40 AM, tbf said:

 

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The explanations of our interest in harmony and rhythm remind me of the feeling I sometimes got in my functional neurobiology class, where I initially doubted the explanation because it intuitively seemed like post-hoc rationalisation, but I bet if I read more studies there'd be a lot of evidence for the theories presented

  On 5/19/2023 at 5:36 PM, Freak of the week said:

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those are some huge ass acid tabs...

this kinda shit is gonna be pretty cool as it gets better and smaller etc. 

Man with paralysis walks naturally after brain, spine implants

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/24/health/walk-after-paralysis-with-implant-scn/index.html

  On 5/25/2023 at 5:08 PM, ignatius said:

this kinda shit is gonna be pretty cool as it gets better and smaller etc. 

Man with paralysis walks naturally after brain, spine implants

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/24/health/walk-after-paralysis-with-implant-scn/index.html

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Now he can walk to places to sit down.

  On 5/25/2023 at 6:02 PM, Wunderbar said:

Now he can walk to places to sit down.

and yet he had a perfectly comfortable chair all along, with wheels on it to boot! All he wanted to do was chill, get up at noon and wheel on down to feed the ducks. Pesky know it all doctors with their advanced technology and fancy notions, bah!

  On 5/25/2023 at 6:29 PM, Summon Dot E X E said:

That's amazing. I wonder if some people will use this tech in crazy cyberpunk ways.
 

yeah. like if you put that same implant in the brain and spine of someone that can already walk

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The Romantics sought the sublime in everything: praising spirit, nature and the classical past with impassioned poetry and prose. And sometimes they found the sublime in a person, as was the case with their least-known, most-unexpected influence—a half-mad Englishman named John “Walking” Stewart.

The Most Unlikely Man to Influence A Generation of Writers: Walking Stewart

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PSR J1748−2446ad is the fastest-spinning pulsar known, at 716 Hz (times per second),[2] or 43,000 revolutions per minute.

At its equator it is spinning at approximately 24% of the speed of light, or over 70,000 km per second.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSR_J1748−2446ad

By comparison, the Earth rotates more than 60 000 000 times slower.

This is so fascinating; a family living deep in Siberian taiga, far away from any nearest settlement, completely isolated.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/for-40-years-this-russian-family-was-cut-off-from-all-human-contact-unaware-of-world-war-ii-7354256/

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But if the family’s isolation was hard to grasp, the unmitigated harshness of their lives was not. Traveling to the Lykov homestead on foot was astonishingly arduous, even with the help of a boat along the Abakan. On his first visit to the Lykovs, Peskov—who would appoint himself the family’s chief chronicler—noted that “we traversed 250 kilometres without seeing a single human dwelling!”

Isolation made survival in the wilderness close to impossible. Dependent solely on their own resources, the Lykovs struggled to replace the few things they had brought into the taiga with them. They fashioned birch-bark galoshes in place of shoes. Clothes were patched and repatched until they fell apart, then replaced with hemp cloth grown from seed.

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is this art?

this thread is interesting

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/06/anthropologists-find-evidence-that-homo-naledi-buried-their-dead-used-symbols/

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Now the same expedition team has announced the discovery of H. naledi bodies deposited in fetal positions, indicating intentional burials. This predates the earliest known burials by Homo sapiens by at least 100,000 years, suggesting that brain size might not be the definitive factor behind such complex behavior. The team also found crosshatched symbols engraved on the walls of the cave that could date as far back as 241,000–335,000 years, although testing is still ongoing.

very interesting

this scenario is like ken russell's the devils but set in modern day merika

ntrstng and open access..

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Representing noise: stacked plots and the contrasting diplomatic ambitions of radio astronomy and post-punk

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Sketched in 1979 by graphic designer Peter Saville, the record sleeve of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures seemingly popularized one of the most celebrated radio-astronomical images: the ‘stacked plot’ of radio signals from a pulsar. However, the sleeve's designer did not have this promotion in mind. Instead, he deliberately muddled the message it originally conveyed in a typical post-punk act of artistic sabotage. In reconstructing the historical events associated with this subversive effort, this essay explores how, after its adoption as an imaging device utilized in radio astronomy, the stacked plot gave representation to the diplomacy agendas of two distinct groups ...

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-for-the-history-of-science/article/representing-noise-stacked-plots-and-the-contrasting-diplomatic-ambitions-of-radio-astronomy-and-postpunk/085E6BEDC4FD45EE330E23395E387F3F

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Auroral Chorus II: The Music of the Magnetosphere

This album is a wonderful collection of Earth's ELF-VLF / audio-frequency "Natural Radio" signals of Earth's Magnetosphere. 

https://archive.org/details/auroral_chorus_2_cd

rubik's cube world record has been broken

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2023/6/max-park-makes-history-by-solving-cube-in-fastest-time-ever-752905

  On 6/5/2023 at 3:21 PM, Freak of the week said:

this thread is interesting

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they want one guy gone, but now even they themselves are gone

it is the end of days, but it is also the best of days, even without our lost posters

  On 1/15/2022 at 12:27 PM, iococoi said:

https://www.dimensions.com/

lul

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re-lul

the english pouter aka the most fucked up looking bird ever

  On 6/21/2023 at 1:25 AM, Nebraska said:

the english pouter aka the most fucked up looking bird ever

 

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If Boris Johnson were a bird...

Kelvin-Helmholtz instability

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Small vehicles of Tokyo

A slim cataloguing of the rich diversity of small vehicles that help shape street life in the world’s largest city

https://cityofsound.com/2023/01/09/small-vehicles-of-tokyo/

royal caribbean's "icon of the seas" will the be the largest cruise ship in the world when it sets sail jan 2024. it is 5 times larger and heavier than the titanic, has 20 deck floors tall with more than 40 bars/restaurants, 7 pools (for every mood), 6 water slides, bowling alleys and live music & circus performances and can hold 10,000 people (7500 passengers)