An excellent documentary serialized on minimovies.org, "I Love Alaska" reveals one persons story through search terms entered into AOL.
Excellent conception, narration & realization.
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Science and history made fascinating. A short but excellent read on the history and discoveries that led up to the current theories of Dark Matter.
Dylan Thuras should write textbooks.
Link: www.htmltimes.com
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Today it's both a link and a question. Or, perhaps less a question than an idea - we are used, as humans, to the 5 senses, classically divided as Sight, Hearing, Taste, Touch and Smell. This is, however, a short list, for a more thorough list I'll send you (yet again) to Wikipedia.
Now as we all know animals frequently have a different range of senses, dogs, famously, can hear sounds that people cannot, some insects and fish can see in wavelengths that are invisible to us. For a rather complex example try this: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080513210456.htm link- a Mantis shrimp that can see not only in UV and Infrared but as well polarized light.
And there are of course those senses - whether real or imagined - whereby we are able to read one anothers thoughts (ESP), or see into the future (Precognition) - but the existence of these is still much debated. But, for an exercise, try to imagine adding a sense - what would it be? Think of how much of our world view and "perception" is colored by our senses, so, if you had to invent a completely new one - not an enhancement of an existing one [like the abiltity to see in UV, which is simply a broader range of vision]- what would it be? And, having invented it, how would it affect your view of the world?
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Left or Right Brained?
Today's "link(s) of the day" (posted by now as you've noticed every other or so day, but time is often an issue, and I've given you value on the past links of the day, so please forgive my tardiness.) deal with personality - and various methods of measuring it. Personality inventories are overall pretty much the same thing, different ways of cutting up the same pie, but their value lies in how well they can predict the behaviours and actions of the individual. With that in mind, here are a few links to get you started:
http://brain.web-us.com/brain/braindominance.htm
Jung Typology/Myers Briggs Test
And, finally, what's it all about if you're not happy? (which, in a sense, is a personality trait.) So if your unsure (who's unsure about this stuff?) try one of the many tests here:
http://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/
(OK. If you see the image above as spinning clockwise, you're right brained dominant. Anti-clockwise; your left brained dominant. Click here for an explanation.
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