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Science decodes 'internal voices' | BBC

Researchers have demonstrated a striking method to reconstruct words, based on the brain waves of patients thinking of those words.

The technique reported in PLoS Biologyrelies on gathering electrical signals directly from patients’ brains.

Based on signals from listening patients, a computer model was used to reconstruct the sounds of words that patients were thinking of.

The method may in future help comatose and locked-in patients communicate.

Several approaches have in recent years suggested that scientists are closing in on methods to tap into our very thoughts.

In a 2011 study, participants with electrodes in direct brain contact were able to move a cursor on a screen by simply thinking of vowel sounds.

A technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging to track blood flow in the brain has shown promise for identifying which words or ideas someone may be thinking about.

By studying patterns of blood flow related to particular images, Jack Gallant’s group at the University of California Berkeley showed in September that patterns can be used to guess images being thought of -recreating “movies in the mind”.

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“ Io capisco perfettamente il fatto che la nostra generazione abbia rinunciato a credere nel futuro. Capisco meno la rinuncia al congiuntivo.
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archiemcphee:

According to Wikipedia, “The Dynasphere was a monowheel electric vehicle invented in 1932 by Dr. J. A. Purves from Taunton, Somerset, UK. It had 2.5 horse power and once attained a speed of 25 mph.”

Why on earth didn’t this awesome conveyance catch on?

Photos via Douglas Self

Visit How to be a Retronaut to view more images of the Dynasphere!

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bowman77:

Time Lapse Images of Earth at Night Taken From the International Space Station

in alto a destra potete vedere casa nostra

FY ISS


Hehm, ma cos’è quella sottile linea rossa?

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rhea137: The Peasant Wedding by Pieter Brueghel the Elder Most of yesterday was spent on researching genre painting, and more specifically genre painting of the Low Countries. One of the big mysteries in art history is the painting The Peasant Wedding by Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Why would anyone paint a picture of peasants eating drab bread, porridge and soup, served in plates that are carried on a door off its hinges? Why would anyone want to depict this instance of ugliness? In Brueghel’s time, the Roman Catholic Church was the most important patron of the arts. But starting with Bosch and Brueghel, genre paintings became a much more important genre in the Low Countries than it was in the rest of Europe. Many of these paintings are quite charming amusing (think Vermeer’s Milkmaid and The Smoker by Joos van Craesbeeck), not so this Peasant Wedding. Did Brueghel paint this work for himself? The peasants themselves could obviously not afford the painting. Was it commissioned by someone else? That’s the mystery. Ugliness? And what’s more practical than a door? Taking note for my marriage, if any.

rhea137:

The Peasant Wedding by Pieter Brueghel the Elder

Most of yesterday was spent on researching genre painting, and more specifically genre painting of the Low Countries. One of the big mysteries in art history is the painting The Peasant Wedding by Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Why would anyone paint a picture of peasants eating drab bread, porridge and soup, served in plates that are carried on a door off its hinges? Why would anyone want to depict this instance of ugliness?

In Brueghel’s time, the Roman Catholic Church was the most important patron of the arts. But starting with Bosch and Brueghel, genre paintings became a much more important genre in the Low Countries than it was in the rest of Europe. Many of these paintings are quite charming amusing (think Vermeer’s Milkmaid and The Smoker by Joos van Craesbeeck), not so this Peasant Wedding. Did Brueghel paint this work for himself? The peasants themselves could obviously not afford the painting. Was it commissioned by someone else? That’s the mystery.


Ugliness? And what’s more practical than a door? Taking note for my marriage, if any.

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philphys: Giuseppe Peano’s Curve

philphys:

Giuseppe Peano’s Curve

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fuckyeahfluiddynamics: Two jets of sugar syrup collide and interact to form very different patterns.  On the left, the two jets have a low flow rate and create a chain-like wake.  The jets on the right have a higher flow rate and produce a liquid sheet that breaks down into filaments and droplets. The result is often likened to fish bones. (Photo credit: Rebecca Ing)

fuckyeahfluiddynamics:

Two jets of sugar syrup collide and interact to form very different patterns.  On the left, the two jets have a low flow rate and create a chain-like wake.  The jets on the right have a higher flow rate and produce a liquid sheet that breaks down into filaments and droplets. The result is often likened to fish bones. (Photo credit: Rebecca Ing)

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staceythinx:

Cecropia by Christian Schoeler Maldonado

About the project:

“Unless you clearly see that ugliness Which makes me beatiful, You cannot know that there is a certain Ugliness more beautiful than any beauty. -  Il Vertunno dell’ Arcimboldo Don Gregorio Camanini Milano, 1591.”

Inspired by the work of Arcimboldo in the 16th century, this project became an investigation on the relativeness of the beauty. Each photograph shows one individual leaf from the Cecropia tree after one month of it’s fall. They are naturally transformed into organic shapes and sometimes into weird faces and masks or even human figures. Captured in the way they were at the moment, but carefully positioned and lightened to better show it’s individual character.

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