By GrrlScientist
When scientists investigate new areas
of the wilderness, they often discover insect species that are new to
science, but last year, a group of researchers went in to the highlands
in the South American country of Suriname and found 24 new species of
animals, including a spectacular fluorescent purple frog in the genus Atelopus.
The frog’s skin is covered with irregular fluorescent lavender loops
over a background of aubergine, which is the deep reddish purple-brown
color of aubergines (eggplants)..... Keep Reading
Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Master Your Brain: Neuroscience For Personal Development
By Gregory Careman
Discover the NeuroCognitive and Behavioral Approach. Learn how 4 brainstructures run our lives and how to take control.
The NBA (or Neurocognitive and Behavioral Approach) is a fascinating, innovative and multi-disciplinary approach born out of 25 years of scientific research. It combines the fields of neurosciences, social psychology, behavioral sciences and many more to come up with one overlaying, comprehensive theory which gives unique insights in our complex human nature. It was originally developed by the French scientist J. Fradin.
As the director of the Institute of Neurocognitivism I had the chance to work with Dr Fradin and become an expert in his groundbreaking approach. I've developed this course as to make his work accessible to all, regardless of background or prior knowledge. I'm much more a communicator than a scientist myself. And that's exactly my contribution to his work: explaining complex matters in a comprehensive and entertaining way.... Read More
Discover the NeuroCognitive and Behavioral Approach. Learn how 4 brainstructures run our lives and how to take control.
The NBA (or Neurocognitive and Behavioral Approach) is a fascinating, innovative and multi-disciplinary approach born out of 25 years of scientific research. It combines the fields of neurosciences, social psychology, behavioral sciences and many more to come up with one overlaying, comprehensive theory which gives unique insights in our complex human nature. It was originally developed by the French scientist J. Fradin.
As the director of the Institute of Neurocognitivism I had the chance to work with Dr Fradin and become an expert in his groundbreaking approach. I've developed this course as to make his work accessible to all, regardless of background or prior knowledge. I'm much more a communicator than a scientist myself. And that's exactly my contribution to his work: explaining complex matters in a comprehensive and entertaining way.... Read More
Coyote America
Coyote America, by Dan Flores
The howl of a coyote at dusk is one of the chief symbols of the American West, but in recent years, we ve been hearing it farther and farther east. Even New York Cityabout as far from the Southwest as one can get, both geographically and figurativelyhas been the site of a rash of coyote sightings for more than a decade. From Central Park to the Aleutian Islands, Los Angeles to Bangor, Maine, coyotes have been found in places they ve never been seen before: one was even discovered riding a commuter train in Oregon.
The coyote, it turns out, loves the American people. This is ironic, given that since the nineteenth century, Americans have been at war with the coyote. Nevertheless, the coyote has not only survived our onslaught, it has thrived, using the streets of our cities as springboards for a takeover of the continent. Dan Flores, acclaimed historian of the American West, charts the species explosive growth not just as a natural phenomenon but a cultural one, with roots in the Native American stories of a trickster god and Warner Brothers depiction of the hapless Wile E. Coyote. The result is an American avatar: the coyote isn t just some very successful dog, it is us....
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Birdsong: It's More Than Just Music To Your Ears
By Grrl Scientist
Not all birds can sing. The passerines, or songbirds, comprise about half of the world’s 10,000 avian species. They are characterized by their special muscular voice box, the syrinx, which consists of one set of vocal cords located at the top of each lung. Each set of vocal cords is controlled separately, which allows birds to sing two different notes at the same time. Surprisingly, birds can also sing with their beaks closed or while they are eating.... Keep reading
Not all birds can sing. The passerines, or songbirds, comprise about half of the world’s 10,000 avian species. They are characterized by their special muscular voice box, the syrinx, which consists of one set of vocal cords located at the top of each lung. Each set of vocal cords is controlled separately, which allows birds to sing two different notes at the same time. Surprisingly, birds can also sing with their beaks closed or while they are eating.... Keep reading
Pricks and Pain
By White Feather
The neural synapses in our noggins that register sexual pleasure also register pain. There is no difference in the initial registration. It's the same thing. Subsequent noggin activity then measures the impulses and gauges them as to how they fit into the spectrum, or octave, of vibrations. The noggin then goes through its files to see what matches up with the particular vibration and then responds accordingly. The files we have for any level of vibration generally are a history, or conditioning, of how we have reacted to that particular vibration in the past. That conditioning is very much tied into our belief system. We can say that beliefs are thoughts that have been repeated so many times that they become automatic responses. They are like a file that immediately pops up in reaction to certain vibratory impulses registered by the noggin.
So if we believe that if someone hits us with a hammer that we will feel intense pain then we will experience intense pain. If we believe that if someone hits us with a hammer that we will get sexually aroused then we will get sexually aroused.
I recently read an article about hot chile peppers that was written by someone who abhors hot chile peppers and hates any food that is "hot." In the article, they said that our tongue has taste receptors and it has pain receptors. "Normal" food is sensed and tasted by those taste receptors but the hotness of hot chile peppers is registered by the pain receptors. The person who wrote the article said that anytime he ate anything that was "hot" that it "hurt." The pain receptors in our mouth were registering pain, not flavor. So therefore anyone who likes the hotness of hot chile peppers likes pain and is a masochist.
Well! You can just call me a masochist then because I love hot chile peppers. But the way I see it, when we eat food that food has vibrations that run the full length of food vibrations. Sweet foods vibrate at a certain level, salty food vibrates at a certain level, and so forth. Likewise, spicy hot food also vibrates at a certain level. The sensors on our tongue are equipped to register the full spectrum of vibrations. The sensors sense but it is the noggin and its conditioning that classifies and responds to the vibrations being sensed. Most people are conditioned to partake of only a narrow part of the overall spectrum of food vibrations. Hot chile peppers vibrate at the far end of the spectrum while most people are conditioned to stay within a narrow band in the middle of the entire spectrum. So anything outside of their conditioned comfort zone of vibrations is seen as "bad" or as a threat or as pain, which is seen as "bad." So what this article writer was classifying as pain was something that was simply outside his conditioned comfort zone of vibrations. What to him was pain, to me is an orgasmic culinary experience.
It all depends on how one looks at things and that is usually determined by how one is conditioned to look at things.
While we are on the subject of noggins I want to relate something I learned recently. There has been a lot of scientific breakthroughs in recent years concerning noggin science. One particular research study was attempting to figure how long it took for a nerve impulse to travel from a finger that had been pricked to the noggin and then how long the noggin took to assimilate the impulse and react. It was believed that as soon as a finger was pricked a nerve impulse immediately traveled from the finger to the brain where it was registered and then another nerve impulse would shoot back down to the finger where it registered as pain. This happens so quickly that it seems instantaneous.
Well, the researchers wanted to find out exactly how quickly this happens. To their surprise they learned that the sequence of events is not what we thought. They discovered that the noggin actually registered the finger prick BEFORE it happened and it sent the nerve impulse down to the finger just in time to meet the actual pricking.
Isn't that interesting? Does it mean that we are all psychic? Is it indicative of the possibility that we all create our realities? By the way, the test subjects were blindfolded and had no way of knowing when the prick was coming. Could this be an important discovery with mind-blowing consequences?
I guess it all depends on how you look at it.
© Copyright by White Feather. All Rights Reserved.
P. S. By the way, chile (with an e at the end) refers to a vegetable known as a chile pepper. Chili (with an i at the end) refers to a tomato-based meat stew (such as that found on a chili dog). This has been the proper usage of the two words for many, many years but chili (with an i at the end) has been incorrectly used so much in recent years that the newest dictionaries have started to accept it as a spelling attached to the chile pepper vegetable in addition to the meat stew. I may be silly but I am a hot chile pepper afficionado and I cling tenaciously to the older correct spelling usages.
The neural synapses in our noggins that register sexual pleasure also register pain. There is no difference in the initial registration. It's the same thing. Subsequent noggin activity then measures the impulses and gauges them as to how they fit into the spectrum, or octave, of vibrations. The noggin then goes through its files to see what matches up with the particular vibration and then responds accordingly. The files we have for any level of vibration generally are a history, or conditioning, of how we have reacted to that particular vibration in the past. That conditioning is very much tied into our belief system. We can say that beliefs are thoughts that have been repeated so many times that they become automatic responses. They are like a file that immediately pops up in reaction to certain vibratory impulses registered by the noggin.
So if we believe that if someone hits us with a hammer that we will feel intense pain then we will experience intense pain. If we believe that if someone hits us with a hammer that we will get sexually aroused then we will get sexually aroused.
I recently read an article about hot chile peppers that was written by someone who abhors hot chile peppers and hates any food that is "hot." In the article, they said that our tongue has taste receptors and it has pain receptors. "Normal" food is sensed and tasted by those taste receptors but the hotness of hot chile peppers is registered by the pain receptors. The person who wrote the article said that anytime he ate anything that was "hot" that it "hurt." The pain receptors in our mouth were registering pain, not flavor. So therefore anyone who likes the hotness of hot chile peppers likes pain and is a masochist.
Well! You can just call me a masochist then because I love hot chile peppers. But the way I see it, when we eat food that food has vibrations that run the full length of food vibrations. Sweet foods vibrate at a certain level, salty food vibrates at a certain level, and so forth. Likewise, spicy hot food also vibrates at a certain level. The sensors on our tongue are equipped to register the full spectrum of vibrations. The sensors sense but it is the noggin and its conditioning that classifies and responds to the vibrations being sensed. Most people are conditioned to partake of only a narrow part of the overall spectrum of food vibrations. Hot chile peppers vibrate at the far end of the spectrum while most people are conditioned to stay within a narrow band in the middle of the entire spectrum. So anything outside of their conditioned comfort zone of vibrations is seen as "bad" or as a threat or as pain, which is seen as "bad." So what this article writer was classifying as pain was something that was simply outside his conditioned comfort zone of vibrations. What to him was pain, to me is an orgasmic culinary experience.
It all depends on how one looks at things and that is usually determined by how one is conditioned to look at things.
While we are on the subject of noggins I want to relate something I learned recently. There has been a lot of scientific breakthroughs in recent years concerning noggin science. One particular research study was attempting to figure how long it took for a nerve impulse to travel from a finger that had been pricked to the noggin and then how long the noggin took to assimilate the impulse and react. It was believed that as soon as a finger was pricked a nerve impulse immediately traveled from the finger to the brain where it was registered and then another nerve impulse would shoot back down to the finger where it registered as pain. This happens so quickly that it seems instantaneous.
Well, the researchers wanted to find out exactly how quickly this happens. To their surprise they learned that the sequence of events is not what we thought. They discovered that the noggin actually registered the finger prick BEFORE it happened and it sent the nerve impulse down to the finger just in time to meet the actual pricking.
Isn't that interesting? Does it mean that we are all psychic? Is it indicative of the possibility that we all create our realities? By the way, the test subjects were blindfolded and had no way of knowing when the prick was coming. Could this be an important discovery with mind-blowing consequences?
I guess it all depends on how you look at it.
© Copyright by White Feather. All Rights Reserved.
P. S. By the way, chile (with an e at the end) refers to a vegetable known as a chile pepper. Chili (with an i at the end) refers to a tomato-based meat stew (such as that found on a chili dog). This has been the proper usage of the two words for many, many years but chili (with an i at the end) has been incorrectly used so much in recent years that the newest dictionaries have started to accept it as a spelling attached to the chile pepper vegetable in addition to the meat stew. I may be silly but I am a hot chile pepper afficionado and I cling tenaciously to the older correct spelling usages.
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