June 2013
11 posts
The Brains of the Animal Kingdom - WSJ.com →
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New research shows that we have grossly underestimated both the scope and the scale of animal intelligence. Primatologist Frans de Waal on memory-champ chimps, tool-using elephants and rats capable of empathy.
Jury of One
Rorschach
Unreleased Rorschach demo tape posted to Mike Bullshit’s blog.
Way more NYHC than their other stuff.
“Scientists have discovered that about one in thirteen people have flexible ape-like feet.”
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small sample size, but still.
small sample size, but still.
May 2013
78 posts
“Musical chills, write the authors, from the University of North Carolina, are “sometimes known as aesthetic chills, thrills, shivers, frisson, and even skin orgasms [who knew?] … and involve a seconds-long feeling of goose bumps, tingling, and shivers, usually on the scalp, the back of the neck, and the spine, but occasionally across most of the body. … Some people report lots of skin orgasms and some people say they never get them, but the personality trait “openness to experience” seems like a good predictor. (By “open to experience” the researchers seem to mean those people who enjoy art, good movies, aesthetic stuff.)”
—Doyee Magazine
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