Britney, nerds , penguins, wifi, cameras
October 2nd 2007 06:23
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VIDEOS
BRITNEY LOSES CUSTODY
Mexico warms to penguin showA $2m (£1m) musical based on the Oscar winning film March of the Penguins has opened in Mexico.
Penguins the Musical in Mexico - BBC video
University students auction nerds for dates.
'Nerds' for auction CNN
Two university students are holding a 'nerd auction' where girls get homework help, and the guys could get dates.
Nerds via CNN video
PHOTOGRAPHS
This from India with the cricket pitch.
Cricket Pitch deluged in India - from CNN
Striated red-rock mountains capped by a piercingly blue sky overlook a weather-beaten outpost in Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
Part of southern Utah's "red rock country," Grand Staircase-Escalante was named a national monument in 1996, adding a 1.9-million-acre (768,903-hectare) slice of parched, mineral-rich wilderness to U.S. protected lands.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Celebrating Canyon Country," July 1999, National Geographic magazine)
A giant staircase - Nat Geo
THE BRAIN
From Science Direct:
Both macrostructural and microstructural abnormalities were seen in a group of cocaine abusers. Length of cocaine use was associated with severity of the brain abnormalities. Future studies of white matter tissue integrity are warranted including examination of the relationship between DTI measures and traditional volumetric measures.
Keywords: Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Brain; Cocaine; Abuse; Dependence
Keywords: Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Brain; Cocaine; Abuse; Dependence
The Male Brain
"Under a microscope or an fMRI scan, the differences between male and female brains are revealed to be complex and widespread. In the brain centers for language and hearing, for example, women have 11% more neurons than men. The principal hub of emotion and memory formation--the hippocampus--is also larger in the female brain, as is the brain circuitry for language and observing emotions in others. This means that women are, on average, better at expressing emotions and remembering the details of emotional events. Men, by contrast, have two and a half times the brain space devoted to sexual drive as well as larger brain centers for action and aggression. Sexual thoughts floats through a man's brain many times each day on average, and through a woman's only once a day. Perhaps three to four times a day on her hottest days. ...
"The numbers vary, but on average girls speak two to three times more words per day than boys. ... Girls speak faster on average, especially when they are in a social setting. Men haven't always appreciated that verbal edge. In Colonial America, women were put in the town stocks with wooden clips on their tongues or tortured by the 'dunking stool,' held underwater and almost drowned--punishments that were never imposed on men--for the crime of 'talking too much.' ...
"There is a biological reason for [this female talking] behavior. Connecting through talking activates the pleasure centers in a girl's brain. Sharing secrets that have romantic and sexual implications activates those centers even more. We're not talking about a small amount of pleasure. This is huge. It's a major dopamine and oxytocin rush, which is the biggest, fattest neurological reward you can get outside of an orgasm. Dopamine is a neurochemical that stimulates the motivation and pleasure circuits in the brain. Estrogen at puberty increases dopamine and oxytocin production in girls. Oxytocin is a neurohormone that triggers and is triggered by intimacy. ...
"Why do ... boys become so taciturn and monosyllabic that they verge on autistic when they hit their teens? The testicular surges of testosterone marinate the boys' brains. Testosterone has been shown to decrease talking as well as interest in socializing--except when it involves sports or sexual pursuits. In fact, sexual pursuit and body parts become pretty much obsessions."
Louann Brizendine, M.D., The Female Brain, Broadway Books
TECHNOLOGY
Get your house wifi enabled and that means you can write and blog anywhere including the kitchen!
Compaq
and a nice little digicam by Casio
Digicam
and now for DIGITAL
Hooded figure in green
I do hope you like all of this, it took a long time to do.
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Love the colours in the first Pic, very pretty....
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And those little boys were not being looked after properly. She's lost the plot. She needs all the help she can get, and I do hope those drugs have not affected her brain, permanently.
My sympathy came and went and vanished.
If only someone had stepped in earlier.
katyzzz
Comment by Techno
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But I see you're into technology too. Great stuff. See you soon?
Techno
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I could cry. But I seem to have forgotten how to do that, more is the pity.
katyzzz
Comment by Krystal
feelings
Where did you get the artwork from, it's so unusual.
Crystal