Tag: perception
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Changing perception. [Crazy]
Things change. Many people are afraid of change. But if you think it is something you may count on, then it looks like comfort. [Madison’s bridges] Death is the end of life. Many people are afraid of death. We think death as a scary skeleton with a scythe. But if you think death as a wonderful…
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Perception. Being inside. Being outside. A comet’s tail…
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission has sent back some amazing photos as it approaches comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet and prepares to land on its surface. But we have a question: Where’s the tail? Gerhard Schwehm, former manager of the Rosetta mission, tells Popular Science that the tail as we see it from Earth looks very…
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Gut, viruses, life itself…
Odds are, there’s a virus living inside your gut that has gone undetected by scientists for decades. A new study has found that more than half the world’s population is host to a newly described virus, named crAssphage, which infects one of the most common gut bacterial species, Bacteroides. This bacterium thought to be connected…
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Close your eyes. Pay attention.
Attention is what steers your perception. But attention is a limited resource. If you do not attent to something you cannot be aware of it. But you can attend an event without being aware of it! (1) Being aware of what you see. Or focusing on your internal thoughts? Most choose the first. But is it…
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