Tag: senses
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Colour-blind: A surprisingly common problem… [White-balancing red skies]
Multiple wildfires have ravaged the western United States in the past month, scattering particles of ash and smoke into the air. On Wednesday, residents across the West, woke up to a dark, bronzed sky that nearly shut out all daylight. But as people tried to capture the scene, many noticed a strange phenomenon: Certain photographs…
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Touching.
Every year, museums bear the cost of repairing the damage caused to their artworks by visitors touching them. Why would people want to touch objects they can clearly see? What is it that touch provides that vision does not? Philosophers, starting with René Descartes, all noted that touch provided ‘a sense of reality’, and made…
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Touching. Something you can never do…
Touching. The most essential of the senses. We touch to see. We touch to feel. We touch to know. We touch to love. And yet… What do we touch but mere boundaries? Limits of things, the touch of which tells us nothing. That table. It is more than its outer boundaries. It is a place…
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Mindfulness.
Ever wonder why some people seem to feel less pain than others? A study conducted at Wake Forest School of Medicine may have found one of the answers — mindfulness. “Mindfulness is related to being aware of the present moment without too much emotional reaction or judgment,” said the study’s lead author, Fadel Zeidan, Ph.D.,…
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