An intelligent view on natural occurrences - digitally enhanced. (LINK)
September 27th 2007 06:03
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PHOTOGRAPHS
From CNN - this little one is just two weeks old - isn't he amazing?
link to CNN and an amazing little fellow.
Canada, 1985
Photograph by George F. Mobley
Frost-flecked tundra pools dot the landscape of Canada's North Yukon National Park.
Treeless regions found in and around the Arctic, tundras are among Earth's coldest, harshest biomes.
Permafrost, cold, wind, and scant rainfall make it difficult for most plants and animals to survive here.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Kluane: Canada's Icy Wilderness Park," November 1985, National Geographic magazine)
link to National Geographic photo
I liked the baby best to-day!
BRAIN
Intelligence Found in Brain Networks
Individual differences in intelligence found via the Parieto-Frontal Integration Theory.
By Sheba Ali
Does a larger brain and skull necessarily imply that a person is more intellectually advanced?
In 2004 Haier and Jung discovered that intelligence is spread throughout various regions of the brain. In 2005 they discovered that although women possess more white matter (neuronal connections linking brain centers) and men possess more gray matter (neuronal bodies that process information) there is no significant difference in intelligence levels between genders.
The Parieto-Frontal Integration Theory identifies regions primarily in the parietal and frontal lobes as those in which individual differences in intelligence can be determined. The suggestion is that P-FIT are strongly linked to fundamental cognitive processes such as working memory, languages and attention, which suggests that it is the efficiency of the frontal parietal network that determines intelligence levels.
Intelligence is not linked to brain size as much as it is to the effectiveness of information traveling through the brain. The P-FIT model proposes that the temporal and occipital lobes in the frontal area process sensory information which the parietal areas then integrate and abstract, the effectiveness of the interaction between these areas determines intelligence levels.
Research consistency has proved that the parieto-frontal network is indeed responsible for defining intelligence. Genetic research has suggested that intelligence possibly can be inherited. Therefore, according to Haier, “genes work through biology, there must be a biological basis for intelligence.”
Targeting the areas of the brain that house intelligence will eventually help treat problems such as mental retardation whose roots lie in low levels of intelligence.
I have put the link next to the title, just condensed if for you here, I can see no difference between your finding the link and my drawing you attention to it. Once on the net, it's a free for all.
DIGITAL
The soft and gentle grey
I hope you found this interesting and the brain information not overwhelming.
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Comment by Louie
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Just looking at it helps, provided you really look.
And that means inwardly, deeply, meaningfully and intelligently follows.
Unless of course, you're already superbrain.
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Those shots are great! I love the little guy.
Swirling masses of grey that you have created are very monochromatically calming ....
Ash
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Yes, the greys are a lovely change aren't they. I hope they soothe you.
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