Interesting things

[hoggy]

On 3/30/2023 at 12:40 AM, tbf said:

 

The explanations of our interest in harmony and rhythm remind me of the feeling I sometimes got in my functional neurobiology class, where I initially doubted the explanation because it intuitively seemed like post-hoc rationalisation, but I bet if I read more studies there'd be a lot of evidence for the theories presented

[Freak of the week]

[cruising for burgers]

3 hours ago, Freak of the week said:

those are some huge ass acid tabs...

[ignatius]

this kinda shit is gonna be pretty cool as it gets better and smaller etc. 

Man with paralysis walks naturally after brain, spine implants

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/24/health/walk-after-paralysis-with-implant-scn/index.html

[Wunderbar]

53 minutes ago, ignatius said:

this kinda shit is gonna be pretty cool as it gets better and smaller etc. 

Man with paralysis walks naturally after brain, spine implants

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/24/health/walk-after-paralysis-with-implant-scn/index.html

Now he can walk to places to sit down.

[ooqpoo]

11 minutes ago, Wunderbar said:

Now he can walk to places to sit down.

and yet he had a perfectly comfortable chair all along, with wheels on it to boot! All he wanted to do was chill, get up at noon and wheel on down to feed the ducks. Pesky know it all doctors with their advanced technology and fancy notions, bah!

[Summon Dot E X E]

1 hour ago, ignatius said:

this kinda shit is gonna be pretty cool as it gets better and smaller etc. 

Man with paralysis walks naturally after brain, spine implants

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/24/health/walk-after-paralysis-with-implant-scn/index.html

That's amazing. I wonder if some people will use this tech in crazy cyberpunk ways.

[Nebraska]

1 hour ago, Summon Dot E X E said:

That's amazing. I wonder if some people will use this tech in crazy cyberpunk ways.
 

yeah. like if you put that same implant in the brain and spine of someone that can already walk

[luke viia]

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The Romantics sought the sublime in everything: praising spirit, nature and the classical past with impassioned poetry and prose. And sometimes they found the sublime in a person, as was the case with their least-known, most-unexpected influence—a half-mad Englishman named John “Walking” Stewart.

The Most Unlikely Man to Influence A Generation of Writers: Walking Stewart

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Known as 'Walking' Stewart to his contemporaries for having travelled on foot from Madras, India (where he had worked as a clerk for the East India Company) back to Europe between 1765 and the mid-1790s, Stewart is thought to have walked alone across Persia, Abyssinia, Arabia, and Africa before wandering into every European country as far east as Russia. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_Stewart

 

[Freak of the week]

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PSR J1748−2446ad is the fastest-spinning pulsar known, at 716 Hz (times per second),[2] or 43,000 revolutions per minute.

At its equator it is spinning at approximately 24% of the speed of light, or over 70,000 km per second.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSR_J1748−2446ad

By comparison, the Earth rotates more than 60 000 000 times slower.

[cichlisuite]

This is so fascinating; a family living deep in Siberian taiga, far away from any nearest settlement, completely isolated.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/for-40-years-this-russian-family-was-cut-off-from-all-human-contact-unaware-of-world-war-ii-7354256/

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But if the family’s isolation was hard to grasp, the unmitigated harshness of their lives was not. Traveling to the Lykov homestead on foot was astonishingly arduous, even with the help of a boat along the Abakan. On his first visit to the Lykovs, Peskov—who would appoint himself the family’s chief chronicler—noted that “we traversed 250 kilometres without seeing a single human dwelling!”

Isolation made survival in the wilderness close to impossible. Dependent solely on their own resources, the Lykovs struggled to replace the few things they had brought into the taiga with them. They fashioned birch-bark galoshes in place of shoes. Clothes were patched and repatched until they fell apart, then replaced with hemp cloth grown from seed.

 

[ignatius]

is this art?

 

[Freak of the week]

this thread is interesting