"We live in a world of technical distractions. I see my children gathered around their computers as though it's a summer campfire, faces aglow, as they peer into a world of friends and fantasy, participating in a new form of entertainment that further remove them from the childhood that I experienced. Today's generation has lost touch with the activities that previous generations have enjoyed--reading a good book in a comfortable chair, playing board games on a rainy day, flipping through Life magazines, or sprawling out on the living room rug while listening to records and reading the backs of album covers."
- Anna Haro
"And it's because of this that I have been looking at book shelves and untouched childhood pursuits with a new eye. With great sadness, I realize that these objects will someday be obsolete, at least in their current incarnations. And like a curator of antiques, I see them now as beautiful objects to be admired and preserved, if only on film. I can only hope for rain, a heavy rain and maybe a power outage."
- Anna Haro
"Have you ever experienced that eerie feeling of a thought popping into your head as if from nowhere, with no clue as to why you had that particular idea at that particular time? You may think that such fleeting thoughts, however random they seem, must be the product of predictable and rational processes. After all, the brain cannot be random, can it? Surely it processes information using ordered, logical operations, like a powerful computer? Actually, no. In reality, your brain operates on the edge of chaos. Though much of the time it runs in an orderly and stable way, every now and again it suddenly and unpredictably lurches into a blizzard of noise."
- Anna Haro
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"Neuroscientists have long suspected as much. Only recently, however, have they come up with proof that brains work this way. Now they are trying to work out why. Some believe that near-chaotic states may be crucial to memory, and could explain why some people are smarter than others. In technical terms, systems on the edge of chaos are said to be in a state of "self-organised...
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- Anna Haro
"The dynamics of human brain networks have something important in common with some superficially very different systems in nature. Computational networks showing these characteristics have also been shown to have optimal memory (data storage) and information-processing capacity. In particular, critical systems are able to respond very rapidly and extensively to minor changes in their...
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- Amira
"""The focus at that time was something called deterministic chaos, in which a small perturbation can lead to a huge change in the system - the famous "butterfly effect". That would make the brain unpredictable but not actually random, because the butterfly effect is a phenomenon of physical laws that do not depend on chance."""
- Rui Pires
There is evidence for exactly these kinds of dynamics in fruit flies as well. It appears that this organization is common to all brains, not just the human brain. This makes perfect sense: every animal has to be somewhat unpredictable, or it will never find the unexpected food patch or avoid the predator/catch the prey.
- Björn Brembs
This is exactly the time where Friendfeed needs a "love indefinitely" button! Kurt Halsey is my all-time favourite artist. Ahhh, his art makes my heart skip beats.
- Charlotte {charley} M
i LOVE kurt halsey. he is the only artist i have ever allowed myself to save up to buy originals by. i've got four originals now.....and they were worth every penny. love.
- carlotta fancypants
LOL. Remember these sentiment with many past infatuations. Cardboard is an appropriate medium. It recycles easily & makes good compost.
- Meryl Steinberg
"Morning Edition, June 29, 2009 · Human beings breathe an average of 17,000 breaths a day. But who's counting? It's a process we take for granted, yet experts say good technique can help us slow down breath and use it to control stress. They say the movement of breath should emulate sleeping babies — with the belly gently rising and falling."
- Anna Haro
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"If you're uptight and you're not taking a deep breath, you're not getting efficient oxygen exchange," says Alice Domar, a therapist and researcher on stress and women's health issues. She teaches diagrammatic breathing as part of a stress management practice in Waltham, Mass. The technique focuses of fully expanding the diaphragm to fill lungs to optimum capacity. "The lowest third of...
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- Anna Haro
When I was taking acting classes my teacher told me I "didn't know how to breathe". I mentally blue-screened for about two and a half hours after that comment.
- tehKenny
lol @tehKenny. I didn't learn how to breath until I took a yoga class. It really helps...a lot.
- Anna Haro
I always had the worst breathing problems when I ran. I wish someone had actually taught me a good way to breathe while sedentary, that may have helped the running part.
- Michelle Martinez
I remember in my vocal and acting study, they teach us Alexander technique, and we had regular "breathing lessons" by some professor which comes from Russia, she always said that baby breathes deeply and in most natural way.. that's why they can screaming, craying all time without effort and haven't lost voice...
- Amira
"The parents of a 6-year-old schizophrenic search for help against daunting odds for a patient so young and a case so severe. It's been a rough week. A few days ago, at UCLA's Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital, 6-year-old Jani toppled a food cart and was confined to her room. She slammed her head against the floor, opening a bloody cut that sent her into hysterics. Later, she kicked the hospital therapy dog. Jani normally likes animals. But most of her animal friends -- cats, rats, dogs and birds -- are phantoms that only she can see. January Schofield has schizophrenia. Potent psychiatric drugs -- in doses that would stagger most adults -- seem to skip off her. She is among the rarest of the rare: a child seemingly born mentally ill."
- Anna Haro
"She suffers from delusions, hallucinations and paroxysms of rage so severe that not even her parents feel safe. She's threatened to climb into an oven. She's kicked and tried to bite her little brother. "I'm Jani, and I have a cat named Emily 54," she says, by way of introduction. "And I'm Saturn-the-Rat's baby sitter."
- Anna Haro
and as far as I know (not much) I suspect the medications that exist just cannot be given to a child - too strong, too harsh, and not enough known how they affect a brain in development still
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Joelle, the article said that they've tried a lot of them but they either don't work or cause side effects like dystonia so they must be stopped.
- Rochelle