04 november 2010

Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain

"Pickled in a jar or quivering under the anatomist's blade, the brain reveals very little of itself. In order to understand the organ, generations of scientists have pioneered increasingly sophisticated ways of examining it -- first by feeling its weight, shape, and color, then by cutting into it, magnifying its daunting muddle of cells, initially without much to tell them apart. And as they investigated the form and workings of the brain, neuroscientists have invented new ways of seeing. Our modern perspective relies entirely on technologies developed, or adapted, to scrutinize it -- chemical stains, state-of-the-art genetics, x-rays, MRIs, protein tagging. The resulting data reveal subtle variations in shape, intensity, and color, enabling scientists to pinpoint exactly what they seek to unveil and ignore the surrounding clutter."

Phrenology, the nineteenth-century pseudoscience, held that the bumps on our heads reflect the underlying shape of our brains. It divided regions of the skull into distinct areas thought to sit above specialized brain
Het hele artikel (van Carl Schoonover en Michelle Legro) plus veel interessante afbeeldingen op de site van The Atlantic.

The Enigma of Amigara Fault

The Enigma of Amigara Fault (阿弥殻断層の怪) van Junji Ito is een manga van de bovenste griezelplank. De Engelse versie is hier online te lezen, per pagina van rechts naar links natuurlijk.

Wikipedia-artikel over de manga hier.

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Bodytaster | Imre Thormann

Imre Thormann

"The materials that constitute our body are undoubtedly of this Earth and have participated in and experienced the creation process of the Earth. Therefore our body, living here and now, includes the entirety of history of the Earth. What is called "live", "body" and "mind" is precisely a phase of change and flow of the Earth. There is no absolute standard for all things.
Every standard comes into being within ourselves, freshly here and now, each time, relatively through relationships. Becoming aware of these relationships allows you to truly become one with original nature itself and you develop a clearer understanding of how your mind/body operates and a greater appreciation of the involvement of your thought process in all your physical acts."

Michizo Noguchi


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Workshop Noguchi Taiso, 27-28 oktober 2010. Nijmegen, Cordium:
chenghsin.nl/2010-11 workshop Noguchi Taiso.pdf