Thursday, February 11, 2010
All you can remember
This morning I was looking for a glass tumbler, which I had just washed. I insisted in searching given that it hadnt been long since I placed the glass within my vicinity. It cant be as hard as the looking-for-lost-pencil exercise. While I was trying to figure what could have happened to it, the culprit was having its merry-go-round in a microwave. Why do we register some stuff and not some about the same thing?
In How the Mind works by Steven Pinker, there is a reference to an experiment where a toy duck is taken out of a bathtub and a polaroid shot is taken and the duck is put back in the tub. Normal children expect the photo to show the duck in the tub while the autistic dont.
In How the Mind works by Steven Pinker, there is a reference to an experiment where a toy duck is taken out of a bathtub and a polaroid shot is taken and the duck is put back in the tub. Normal children expect the photo to show the duck in the tub while the autistic dont.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Cattle guards
Temple Grandin in her book Animals in Translation lists changes in flooring and texture as one of the details that scares farm animals. Is that how cattle guards work?
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
community psychology
Just when I thought having read Catcher in the Rye, I wouldnt have much to know about J.D.Salinger from his obituary, I came to know of his disentchantment with publishing.
Sunday, February 07, 2010
Spare them Animals
When I came across ligers, my imagination went really wild and I thought it was lizards crossed with tigers, but the hybridisation by accident or intent is between lions and tigers.
Friday, February 05, 2010
From what they sing
Listening to a dog in the neighborhood dog bark, along with Grover Washington's jazz, the bow wow wow seems musical. Music with its variations, is such an accomodating art that you can go at it as cotton candy and keep filling your bag and keep it light. How you hurry to share what you find in a song to tell someone of the form that a thing has taken. A form enough to be what you would have told if you knew it well enough yourself. By latching onto one form, you have beaded it into your hair for ever, looking for the matching beads on others.
Color blurs
As I look at yellow Gazanias and then white ones with purple streaks out of the core, I wonder why or how there are two flowers of same kind but different color. I am then reminded of yellow Columbines that I saw on a hike followed by a picture of a purple Columbine Thinking if such a thing is possible in birds.
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