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02 Jun 09

Kodak No.1 Circular Snapshots - a set on Flickr

  • he Kodak camera was the invention of
    an American, George Eastman (1854-1932).
    It was a simple, leather-covered wooden
    box – small and light enough to be held
    in the hands. Taking a photograph with
    the Kodak was very easy, requiring only
    three simple actions; turning the key
    (to wind on the film); pulling the
    string (to set the shutter); and
    pressing the button (to take the
    photograph). There wasn’t even a
    viewfinder - the camera was simply
    pointed in the direction of the subject
    to be photographed. The Kodak produced
    circular snapshots, two and a half
    inches in diameter.
01 Jun 09

Mixing Memory: What, If Anything, Can Evolutionary Stories Tell Us About Human Cognition?

  • In other words, evolutionary psychology is a paradigm that will allow us to understand the mind. Moreover, it is a paradigm designed to replace the naive paradigm that has dominated the psychological sciences since the days of William James. The paradigm approaches problems of the mind with 5 principles, which Cosmides and Tooby claim come from biology:
  • Principle 1. The brain is a physical system. It functions as a computer. Its circuits are designed to generate behavior that is appropriate to your environmental circumstances.

    Principle 2. Our neural circuits were designed by natural selection to solve problems that our ancestors faced during our species' evolutionary history.

    Principle 3. Consciousness is just the tip of the iceberg; most of what goes on in your mind is hidden from you. As a result, your conscious experience can mislead you into thinking that our circuitry is simpler that it really is. Most problems that you experience as easy to solve are very difficult to solve -- they require very complicated neural circuitry.

    Principle 4. Different neural circuits are specialized for solving different adaptive problems.

    Principle 5. Our modern skulls house a stone age mind.

Mixing Memory: Has Evolutionary Psychology Been Demolished? A Review of Buller, Chapter 4

  • broader sense, includes any psychology that takes evolution seriously, or includes evolutionary considerations in its explanations of psychological phenomena. The second, which is generally associated with Leda Cosmides, John Tooby, David Buss, and Steven Pinker, includes only those evolutionary psychologists who adhere to a certain set of tenets, including massive modularity, assumptions about the "environment of evolutionary adaptedness" (or the EEA), and a belief that the modern mind evolved in the EEA. To distinguish this second sense from the first, I will use Buller's convention or referring to it with capital letters (Evolutionary Psychology, Evolutionary Psychologists), and using only lowercase letters for the first sense.

Evolutionary psychology controversy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • Criticisms of inherited/"modular" psychological traits
  • particular behavioral traits are hereditary

Top 10 Bizarre But True Drugs And Their Effects - Listverse

  • No, it is not an alcohol made from salamanders, but rather from what they produce. Salamander brandy obviously can’t be found in your local liquor store. It is non-commercially produced in Slovenia. There are at least two ways of making it - both of which involve animal cruelty: (1) The salamanders are hung from their back legs, and brandy is poured onto their bodies, and drips into a cup. (2) The salamander is placed on a sieve, and brandy is poured onto them until they drown. The point of this is to infuse the alcohol with the poison salamanders produce when they are defending themselves. Nonetheless, it is said to produce symptoms like LCD and Ecstasy combined, in addition to the effects of the alcohol (although, the alcohol content is particularly low)!

30 Rock – “The Natural Order” « Cultural Learnings

  • “TWIST!” is really fun to yell out loud, and I enjoyed both Tracy and Liz using it at different points in the episode; it wasn’t quite the level of connectivity I like to see, but it was a nice way to add an element of consistency at the very least.
  • Loved seeing Steve Buscemi pop up in a brief cameo as Jack’s P.I. of choice: especially enjoyed his “No, I’m just taking a photography class” and that he rode off on a bicycle. I thought his Emmy nomination for the role the first time around was patently ridiculous, but I can’t lie in noting it’s a fun character.
28 Apr 09

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      1. Our moral compass is not just broken it’s smashed to smithereens. Too bad we couldn’t keep it - Benjamin Franklin had so much hope for us. Change the outside of something all you like -it matters not one bit- if nothing changes on the inside then it’s only cosmetics and not truly change.





         




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17 Apr 09

Francis Crick's discovery of DNA helix while on LSD

  • Nobel
    Prize genius Crick was high on LSD

    when he discovered the secret of life


  • 'Dick Kemp told me he met Francis Crick at Cambridge.
    Crick had told him that some Cambridge academics used
    LSD in tiny amounts as a thinking tool, to liberate them
    from preconceptions and let their genius wander freely
    to new ideas. Crick told him he had perceived the double-helix
    shape while on LSD.
16 Apr 09

Emile M. Cioran Quotes

  • Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?



    Emile M. Cioran
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