Tag: seeing
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Seeing. As if “thinking”. Being. As if “seeing nothing”.
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the first in a series of the sharpest views of Pluto it obtained during its July flyby and the best close-ups of Pluto that humans may see for decades. [1] In another story: Scientists have long known that when sounds are faint or objects are seen through fog…
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The DANGER of senses (yes, you SEE correctly).
We all pity people who cannot see. We all pity people who cannot hear. We are all happy to see. To smell. To taste. To be able to touch and interact with our environment. But there is a great fallacy in this. By relying too much on our vision we become more passive. All the…
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The use of images in science and writing. A weird story…
In astronomy… An astronomer by training but a photographer at heart, Zoltan Levay creates images of the cosmos with one of humankind’s most advanced optical instruments: the Hubble Space Telescope. Producing photos with the telescope, he says, is not that different from shooting mountains and rivers in national parks. "We're just shooting landscapes of the…
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Stable mind. Unstable mind. Learning. Being.
Mathematical model shows how brain remains stable during learning. Complex biochemical signals that coordinate fast and slow changes in neuronal networks keep the brain in balance during learning, according to an international team of scientists. Neuronal networks form a learning machine that allows the brain to extract and store new information from its surroundings via…
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Microscopes as the Death of Science...
Two Americans and a German researcher on Wednesday were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work fine-tuning optical microscopy so that molecular processes could be viewed in real time. The 2014 laureates in chemistry are Eric Betzig of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Virginia; Stefan W. Hell of the Max Planck Institute…
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