The “normal” form of the condition called synesthesia is weird enough: For people with this condition, sensory information gets mixed in the brain causing them to see sounds, taste colors, or perceive numbers as having particular hues.
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Everything You Need To Know About Happiness - PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - 11 views
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This article is amazing! If you want the full list of 'needs' search for 'maslow's hierarchy of needs' - I've always wonder what self-realization would be like, this article should help get me there :)
What If Every Environmentalist is Actually Wrong? - 0 views
Setting the record straight almost impossible - 0 views
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the tenacity of misinformation: why setting the record straight is almost impossible › (ABC Science) http://ow.ly/5FbVO #psych
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Best Quality Clean Water Pumps - 1 views
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Amazing House and Land Packages in Perth for First-time Buyers - 1 views
As a first-time homebuyer, I looked for house and land packages in Perth that would fit my idea of a dream house. Natures Walk offers stunning home designs; many homebuyers like me were lucky to ha...
Is Your Boss a Psychopath? | Fast Company - 0 views
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You've long suspected, and now somebody thinks he knows.
Free Gary McKinnon - or at least try him in the UK - 0 views
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Gary, who suffers from Asperger syndrome, is being abandoned by his own government and thrown accross the pond to be tried in a US *Military* Court
Mind - How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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The brain evolved to predict, and it does so by identifying patterns. When those patterns break down — as when a hiker stumbles across an easy chair sitting deep in the woods, as if dropped from the sky — the brain gropes for something, anything that makes sense. It may retreat to a familiar ritual, like checking equipment. But it may also turn its attention outward, the researchers argue, and notice, say, a pattern in animal tracks that was previously hidden. The urge to find a coherent pattern makes it more likely that the brain will find one.
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“The fact that the group who read the absurd story identified more letter strings suggests that they were more motivated to look for patterns than the others,” Dr. Heine said. “And the fact that they were more accurate means, we think, that they’re forming new patterns they wouldn’t be able to form otherwise.”
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Brain-imaging studies of people evaluating anomalies, or working out unsettling dilemmas, show that activity in an area called the anterior cingulate cortex spikes significantly. The more activation is recorded, the greater the motivation or ability to seek and correct errors in the real world, a recent study suggests
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A sense of the absurd sharpens your intellect: you find more meaning after you've been through something that makes no sense at all.
Party All You Want After Work - 1 views
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Feeling the Gyrating Beat with Herbal Highs - 1 views
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Enjoying the Benefits of Buying Perfume Online - 2 views
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Taking a Ride to Funky Town With Legal Highs - 1 views
Life is boring if we take things seriously. We should also have the time to enjoy it at its fullest. With legal highs, the feelings we get are like taking a ride to funky town where we no longer th...
Be Irresistible with Floral Perfumes - 2 views
Women like me want to feel irresistible with a choice fragrance. It is one reason why I choose floral perfumes offered by ePerfume. The website has a wide array of collections such as Gardenia Eliz...
Top Funeral Service in Adelaide - 1 views
Sensible Funerals handled the funeral of my late grandmother. It was really difficult for me and my family to say goodbye. That is why we wanted to give her the best funeral service though our fam...
How Crossword Puzzles Unlocked An Artist's Memory : NPR - 0 views
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"She lives in a narrow sliver of the present moment, not well connected to what just happened," Aline says. "And with her puzzles, she's able to capture what's going on in a way that she can use her creative energies. And that's one scaffolding. Another is the alphabet. Because, for example, when she's singing an alphabet song and she's at the letter 'M,' she knows where she's come from, she knows where she's going to. So it gives her a feeling of continuity, of the flow of time, which she might not otherwise be able to get."
15 Ways to Get Someone our of Your Head - 0 views
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