May82013

Ang huli kong natutuhan sa iyo

“Minsan, o baka pa nga sa maraming pagkakataon, makasarili ang umibig.”

April222013
“You hold an absence
at your center,
as if it were a life.” Richard Brostoff, from “Grief” (via proustitute)
April132013

Dahil ngarag sa pagsusulat ng papel: ilang salita

Sa dulo ng lahat, nag-iisa pa rin tayo. Limitasyon natin ang sarili. Hinding-hindi tayo makalalabas, gaano man tayo magtangka. Kung gayon, hindi rin natin mauunawaan nang lubos ang kahit anong ugnayan natin sa isa’t isa. Matagpuan man natin ang sagot sa maraming misteryo ng uniberso, makailang hakbang man tayo papalapit sa isang omnisyenteng pag-iral, mananatili pa rin ang distansiya natin sa isa’t isa, hindi gumagalaw, walang pag-usad. Sa dulo ng lahat, nag-iisa pa rin tayo.

Ngunit dito rin nabubuo ang tiwala, ang pag-asa, ang pag-ibig–sa pagitan ng isa’t isa, ng bawat isa, sa likas na kakulangan at limitasyon ng ating karunungan. Ito ang hiwaga. Alam kong hindi mo ako mauunawaan nang lubos-lubos ngunit iaalay ko pa rin ang sarili ko sa iyo. Ibubuhos ko pa rin ang kalooban ko. Ikukuwento ko pa rin ang mga pinakatinatago kong lihim. Aasa ako, kahit lagi’t lagi, sa simula’t sapul, hanggang sa puno’t dulo ay nakaamba ang paghihiwalay. Itatawid pa rin natin ang ating sarili, kahit na alam nating kabiguan ang kahihinatnan, kahit na hanggang pagtawid na lamang at walang pagdating.  Mahal kita kahit na ang pumipigil sa atin ay ang isa’t isa.

February22013
ikenbot: Somewhere On This Planet This moonscape view of the Milky Way features a bizarre geological formation (called Panaca formation) in Cathedral Gorge State Park, Nevada. This place was covered by a lake nearly a million years ago. The richly colored canyons are remnants of this ancient lakebed. Over centuries the lake began to gradually drain. Erosion on the exposed parts of sediment and gravel carved rivulets, splitting tiny cracks and fissures into larger and larger gullies and canyons. — Wally Pacholka

ikenbot:

Somewhere On This Planet

This moonscape view of the Milky Way features a bizarre geological formation (called Panaca formation) in Cathedral Gorge State Park, Nevada.

This place was covered by a lake nearly a million years ago. The richly colored canyons are remnants of this ancient lakebed. Over centuries the lake began to gradually drain. Erosion on the exposed parts of sediment and gravel carved rivulets, splitting tiny cracks and fissures into larger and larger gullies and canyons. — Wally Pacholka
4PM
malacanan: Happy Constitution Day, Tumblr! To kick things off, may we present the Malolos Congress in Barasoain Church, Malolos, Bulacan, on September 15, 1898. (In glorious color! This is part of the colorized history project of the Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office. View our previous digital colorization efforts here.) The document they produced, which came to be known as the Malolos Constitution, was formally adopted on January 20 and promulgated by President Emilio Aguinaldo (CENTER, SEATED) on January 21, 1899.

malacanan:

Happy Constitution Day, Tumblr! To kick things off, may we present the Malolos Congress in Barasoain Church, Malolos, Bulacan, on September 15, 1898. (In glorious color! This is part of the colorized history project of the Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office. View our previous digital colorization efforts here.)

The document they produced, which came to be known as the Malolos Constitution, was formally adopted on January 20 and promulgated by President Emilio Aguinaldo (CENTER, SEATED) on January 21, 1899.

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January212013

pinoytumblr:

HistoRiles started out as an idea in transit. I have always commuted ever since high school. I commute via bus whenever I go home to Batangas, via tricycle whenever I get around Katipunan, and of course, via LRT when traveling around Manila. Philippine public transport has its own woes, but I figured if I could just make one little change, it might matter even for the short duration of any ride. I wanted people to find avenues to be insightful because I believe that a society that thrives in constant inquiry and wonder is one that’s geared for progress. As a design student and an aspiring artist, HistoRiles is my way of invoking the curiosity within every Filipino that has perhaps been lost amidst the flurry of every ordinary day’s rush.

— Alfred Marasigan, January 2012

Follow HistoRiles on tumblr and on twitter!

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January202013
Ang mga mata moang nilalakbay kosa pagdaan ng mundo

Ang mga mata mo
ang nilalakbay ko
sa pagdaan ng mundo

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January192013

showslow:

Nuées by Laurent Millet

French artist Laurent Millet and his dreamy series titled ‘Nuées’. We all remember the summer days when we used to lie on the grass, watching the clouds, making up stories and trying to catch them. This is what Laurent Millet does; “catching” clouds in little glass boxes.

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6PM

astrodidact:

thesciencellama:

Acoustic Levitation

Using sound waves to levitate individual droplets of solutions containing pharmaceutical drugs and drying them in mid-air. Why do this? This is useful because most of the drugs on the market are either amorphous or crystalline and the crystalline form doesn’t get absorbed by the body. So levitating the solution allows the drug to be made into an amorphous state (by evaporation) because if it were to touch any surface it would simply crystallize. They call this “containerless processing”.

The frequencies used are just above the audible range at about 22 kilohertz and when the two speakers are aligned they create two sets of sound waves, perfectly interfering with each other creating a phenomenon known as a standing wave. This allows the objects to levitate in areas within the waves known as nodes as the acoustic pressure is enough to cancel the force of gravity.

Video Source - Argonne National Laboratory

This is really fucking cool. I wanna know more about acoustic levitation.

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January172013
neurosciencestuff: Exploring the Brain’s Relationship to Habits The basal ganglia, structures deep in the forebrain already known to control voluntary movements, also may play a critical role in how people form habits, both bad and good, and in influencing mood and feelings. “This system is not just a motor system,” says Ann Graybiel. “We think it also strongly affects the emotional part of the brain.” Graybiel, an investigator at the McGovern Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and professor in MIT’s department of brain and cognitive sciences, believes that a core function of the basal ganglia is to help humans develop habits that eventually become automatic, including habits of thought and emotion. “Many everyday movements become habitual through repetition, but we also develop habits of thought and emotion,” she says.”If cognitive and emotional habits are also controlled by the basal ganglia, this may explain why damage to these structures can lead not only to movement disorders, but also to repetitive and intrusive thoughts, emotions and desires.”            Graybiel’s research focuses on the brain’s relationship to habits—how we make or break them—and the neurobiology of the habit system. She and her team have identified and traced neural loops that run from the outer layer of the brain—“the thinking cap,” as she calls it—to a region called the striatum, which is part of the basal ganglia, and back again. These loops, in fact, connect sensory signals to habitual behaviors. Her work ultimately could have an impact not just on such classic movement disorders as Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases, but in other conditions where repetitive movements commonly occur, such as Tourette Syndrome, autism, or obsessive-compulsive disorder, the latter when sufferers experience unwanted and repeated thoughts, feelings, ideas, sensations or behaviors that make them feel driven to do something, for example, repeatedly washing their hands. Moreover, the research could have an immediate value for trying to understand “what happens in the brain as addiction occurs, as bad habits form, not just good habits,” she says. “There are many psychiatric and neurologic conditions in which these same brain regions are disordered. “These conditions may in part be influenced by the very system we are working on,” Graybiel adds. “We are working with models of anxiety and depression, stress and some of these movement disorders.” It turns out that the emotional circuits of the brain have strong ties to the striatum, she says. Graybiel’s research suggests that activity in the striatum strongly affects the emotional decisions that people make: whether to accept a good outcome or a potentially bad one, for example, and that there are circuits favoring good outcomes, and, surprisingly, other circuits that favor bad ones. “This work ties into new research suggesting that there are brain systems for ‘good’ and brain systems for ‘bad,’” she says. “What is intriguing is that we may have identified the circuits that decide between the two.”

neurosciencestuff:

Exploring the Brain’s Relationship to Habits

The basal ganglia, structures deep in the forebrain already known to control voluntary movements, also may play a critical role in how people form habits, both bad and good, and in influencing mood and feelings.

“This system is not just a motor system,” says Ann Graybiel. “We think it also strongly affects the emotional part of the brain.”

Graybiel, an investigator at the McGovern Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and professor in MIT’s department of brain and cognitive sciences, believes that a core function of the basal ganglia is to help humans develop habits that eventually become automatic, including habits of thought and emotion.

“Many everyday movements become habitual through repetition, but we also develop habits of thought and emotion,” she says.”If cognitive and emotional habits are also controlled by the basal ganglia, this may explain why damage to these structures can lead not only to movement disorders, but also to repetitive and intrusive thoughts, emotions and desires.”           

Graybiel’s research focuses on the brain’s relationship to habits—how we make or break them—and the neurobiology of the habit system. She and her team have identified and traced neural loops that run from the outer layer of the brain—“the thinking cap,” as she calls it—to a region called the striatum, which is part of the basal ganglia, and back again. These loops, in fact, connect sensory signals to habitual behaviors.

Her work ultimately could have an impact not just on such classic movement disorders as Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases, but in other conditions where repetitive movements commonly occur, such as Tourette Syndrome, autism, or obsessive-compulsive disorder, the latter when sufferers experience unwanted and repeated thoughts, feelings, ideas, sensations or behaviors that make them feel driven to do something, for example, repeatedly washing their hands.

Moreover, the research could have an immediate value for trying to understand “what happens in the brain as addiction occurs, as bad habits form, not just good habits,” she says. “There are many psychiatric and neurologic conditions in which these same brain regions are disordered.

“These conditions may in part be influenced by the very system we are working on,” Graybiel adds. “We are working with models of anxiety and depression, stress and some of these movement disorders.”

It turns out that the emotional circuits of the brain have strong ties to the striatum, she says. Graybiel’s research suggests that activity in the striatum strongly affects the emotional decisions that people make: whether to accept a good outcome or a potentially bad one, for example, and that there are circuits favoring good outcomes, and, surprisingly, other circuits that favor bad ones.

“This work ties into new research suggesting that there are brain systems for ‘good’ and brain systems for ‘bad,’” she says. “What is intriguing is that we may have identified the circuits that decide between the two.”

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