September 2011
“Benham’s top is a classic examples of subjective colours. Because of the interaction of space and time Campenhausen called them “pattern-induced flicker colours”. While nobody knows for certain why the colours appear, lateral inhibition and the different rates of stimulation for the colour-specific retinal ganglion cells clearly are involved. They code the pattern of light in space and time into patterns of nerve firings in space and time.”
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Here you can see an interactive Benham’s top, as mentioned in the NS article.
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“I was a scarlet letter”
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Lyrics from Taylor Swift’s Love Story.
I’m sorry, I’m confused… Did you marry un-lovingly? Did you have an extramarital affair? Did a child result from this infidelity? Did everyone find out and brand you? How can this girl be calling herself a scarlet letter? An adulteress? Who is going to explain this concept to the kids who sing along? How can anyone consider this proper!
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“This is the great thing that the movies have…the potential to really press things home visually—they come closer than anything else, the people can see your eyes…they can—I remember we were up in Canada, in 1954, in the mountains shooting a picture called The Far Country. We were havin’ a bawx lunch—the usual terrible bawx lunch—and this old guy came over t’me…nawdded at me. ‘You Stewart?’ ‘Yeah…’ ‘You did a thing in a picture once,’ he said. ‘Can’t remember the name of it—but you were in a room—and you said a poem or something ‘bout fireflies…That was good!’ I knew right away what he meant—that’s all he said—he was talking about a scene in a picture called Come Live with Me that came out in 1941—and he couldn’t remember the title, but that little…tiny thing—didn’t last even a minute—he’d remembered all those years…An’ that’s the thing—that’s the great thing about the movies…After you learn—and if you’re good and Gawd helps ya and you’re lucky enough to have a personality that comes across—then what you’re doing is…you’re giving people little…little, tiny pieces of time…that they never forget.”
—Jimmy Stewart, quoted in Who The Hell’s In It by Peter Bogdanovich (via oldfilmsflicker)
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”
—Maurice Sendak (via bobulate)
“Snappy’s pretty territorial and he attacked the filter one day, and a few weeks after that, I noticed he was orange,”
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said owner Tracey Sandstrom in an interview with the Herald Sun.
“The coroner, Ciaran McLoughlin, reported: “This fire was thoroughly investigated and I’m left with the conclusion that this fits into the category of spontaneous human combustion, for which there is no adequate explanation.”
—Is Spontaneous Human Combustion Real? | Irishman Dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion | Paranormal Mysteries | LiveScience
“OKITE is a Japanese alarm clock app. It’s designed to help users wake up, but with a twist: it sends embarrassing messages to the user’s Twitter account every time they hit snooze.”
—Self-constraint markets in everything the culture that is Japan — Marginal Revolution
“The challenge is “finding the language that generates [the] alarm that drives action, but not the despair that proves self-fulfilling.”
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Larry Summers speaking at IMF/World Bank meeting
State Of The Internet 2011 →
onlineschools.org
Gorgeous! Anyone who loves info-graphics will fall in love with this! It’s alive!