Lagubeko

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The above is by George Mitchell, via Michael Buchino’s Beard Revue. Beard Revue? A blog devoted entirely to beards for the beard enthusiast? …my dreams can come true. Now all I need is a forearm appreciation society.

nevewala:

sosexyoutofcontext:

imgfave | beard·revue: First Thursday Beard Art

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Big River, Johnny Cash.

This was stuck in my head while leaving Chicago. I had a connecting flight in Minnesota, and couldn’t stop repeating the lines, “I met her accidentally in St. Paul (Minnesota) /
And it tore me up every time I heard her drawl, Southern drawl.”

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graphiceverywhere:

Something I Must Do

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Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth dimension (New Scientist)

piquant:

via psychotherapy:

The man dangles on a cable hanging from an eight-storey-high tower. Suspended in a harness with his back to the ground, he sees only the face of the man above, who controls the winch that is lifting him to the top of the tower like a bundle of cargo. And then it happens. The cable suddenly unclips and he plummets towards the concrete below.

Panic sets in, but he’s been given an assignment and so, fighting his fear of death, he stares at the instrument strapped to his wrist, before falling into the sweet embrace of a safety net. A team of scientists will spend weeks studying the results.

The experiment was extreme, certainly, but the neuroscientist behind the study, David Eagleman at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, is no Dr Strangelove. When we look back at scary situations, they often seem to have occurred in slow motion. Eagleman wanted to know whether the brain’s clock actually accelerates - making external events appear abnormally slow in comparison with the brain’s workings - or whether the slo-mo is just an artefact of our memory.

It’s just one of many mysteries concerning how we experience time that we are only now beginning to crack. “Time,” says Eagleman, “is much weirder than we think it is.”

This reminds me of a certain true story about three students being hit by a school bus….

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piquant:

bewildered:

these martian landscape photos[…]! you just have no sense of scale for pictures like this; you could tell me it was a satellite photo of a martian dune field ten miles wide or that it’s the surface of a cat’s tongue under an electron microscope and i’d believe you either way.