The Riddle of Consciousness (New York Times)
via: The deeper that investigators dig, the more hidden chambers they find. Last Wednesday, scientists in England and Belgium reported that five people with severe brain injuries who had been identified as “vegetative,” beyond reach, showed activity on brain imaging that strongly suggested conscious awareness. One of them, a 29-year-old man thought to be “vegetative” for five years, began to answer yes and no questions by alternately showing brain activity when thinking about tennis (lighting motor areas), then about walking in his house (lighting spatial areas).
A locked door on consciousness had swung open, all right; but on the other side was yet another dark corridor. After five years of being in effect buried alive in its own skull, what kind of consciousness was left for this patient? Who, exactly, lives behind those blank eyes? And, for that matter, what name do we give to this conscious state that looks totally absent, except for the ghostly blinking pixels on a brain imaging machine?
Mike + The Mechanics - The Living Years (1989)
Every generation
Blames the one before
And all of their frustrations
Come beating on your door
I know that I’m a prisoner
To all my Father held so dear
I know that I’m a hostage
To all his hopes and fears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years
Crumpled bits of paper
Filled with imperfect thoughts
Stilted conversations
I’m afraid that’s all we’ve got
You say you just don’t see it
He says it’s perfect sense
You just can’t get agreement
In this present tense
We all talk a different language
Talkin’ in defense
# Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It’s too late when we die
To admit we don’t see eye to eye
So we open up a quarrel
Between the present and the past
We only sacrifice the future
It’s the bitterness that lasts
So Don’t yield to the fortunes
You sometimes see as fate
It may have a new perspective
On a different date
And if you don’t give up, and don’t give in
You may just be O.K.
(# repeat Chorus)I wasn’t there that morning
When my Father passed away
I didn’t get to tell him
All the things I had to say
I think I caught his spirit
Later that same year
I’m sure I heard his echo
In my baby’s new born tears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years
(# repeat Chorus)
Say it loud, say it clear
Say it loud
Don’t give up
Don’t give in
And don’t know what you can do next
Heard of this song several years ago, but I don’t have much feeling on it when I was young, but now I did. I cried. It touches my heart deeply. I LOVE YOU, daddy, always!
When was the last time you hug your daddy and tell him that you love him?
New Alice posters, oh, can’t wait!
Plitvicka Jezera National Park is one of Earth’s jewels. This mountain valley holds many large emerald lakes, each of which drains into the next in spectacular series of waterfalls.
![Buy This: “Match & Munch Sandwich Cutters” from The Spoon Sisters.
Set of 4 puzzle shapes.
Old and Busted: With the crust cut off. New Hotness: With the crumb cut up into four interlocking pieces.
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Buy This: “Match & Munch Sandwich Cutters” from The Spoon Sisters.
Set of 4 puzzle shapes.
Old and Busted: With the crust cut off. New Hotness: With the crumb cut up into four interlocking pieces.
[nerdapproved.]
The 15 Books You Must Read in 2010
As suggested by the editors of GOOD
Paramore - Decode
The truth is hiding in your eyes
And it’s hanging on your tongue
Just boiling in my blood,
But you think that I can’t see
What kind of man that you are
If you’re a man at all
Well, I will figure this one out on my own
On my own (“I’m screaming I love you so”)
On my own (My thoughts you can’t decode)
As simple as that!
It Is Real…Sculpture!
So, you are wondering what is so special about this man’s face? It is a hyperrealist sculpture by Jamie Salmon, who uses materials such as silicone rubber, fibre glass, acrylic and human hair. Incredible detail!
