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The science of smell – smell as molecular vibration.

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Relevant to brain studies, behavior studies (smell and molecular communication play a larger role than most people realize in behaviors and experience), and the popular topic and theme of ‘vibration’ in the esoteric culture materials… How a new science and industry of scent chemicals is evolving from chemists and biologists applying a theory of smell [...]

Memory as a search problem

Monday, November 10th, 2008

This Sciam article discusses a recent experiment with memory, that illustrates some of the complex detail that our memory can store. The experiment demonstrated that with a visual image to trigger memory recall, ordinary humans were able to quickly match and compare a really large number of details.
I thought a boingboing’s poster’s take on this [...]

Austin Osmond Spare, artist and sigilist

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

A post in metafilter about AO Spare was interesting – in case you missed it – things rip by fast on metafilter – I archived it here. Basically a bunch of links to Spare art…

http://www.metafilter.com/76360/AOS

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