The chaos of my mind

georgetakei: Oh wait…

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:45:35 +1000

georgetakei:

Oh wait…

giraffewrangler: I am so easily amused :3

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:50:34 +1000

giraffewrangler:

I am so easily amused :3

gastrogirl: triple chocolate glazed brownies.

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:55:32 +1000

gastrogirl:

triple chocolate glazed brownies.

ALL. THE. FUCKING. TIME.

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:55:28 +1000

ALL. THE. FUCKING. TIME.

gothiccharmschool: lovingmyselfishard: moniquill: Who turned...

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:50:35 +1000

gothiccharmschool:

lovingmyselfishard:

moniquill:

Who turned the Gothostat up that high? Do you kids thing we’re made of black velvet and Bauhaus? Your cloves are coming out of your own allowance this month to teach you the value of conserving gothness.

Ok this has to be the Gothest picture ever. It bleeds black and ennui out of your screen. Fuck.

Reblogging for flawless commentary. The non-existent GothCabal approves.

neurosciencestuff: Human Connectome Project releases major data...

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 13:55:27 +1000

neurosciencestuff:

Human Connectome Project releases major data set on brain connectivity

The Human Connectome Project, a five-year endeavor to link brain connectivity to human behavior, has released a set of high-quality imaging and behavioral data to the scientific community. The project has two major goals: to collect vast amounts of data using advanced brain imaging methods on a large population of healthy adults, and to make the data freely available so that scientists worldwide can make further discoveries about brain circuitry.

The initial data release includes brain imaging scans plus behavioral information — individual differences in personality, cognitive capabilities, emotional characteristics and perceptual function — obtained from 68 healthy adult volunteers. Over the next several years, the number of subjects studied will increase steadily to a final target of 1,200. The initial release is an important milestone because the new data have much higher resolution in space and time than data obtained by conventional brain scans.

The Human Connectome Project (HCP) consortium is led by David C. Van Essen, PhD, Alumni Endowed Professor at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and Kamil Ugurbil, PhD, Director of the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research and the McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair Professor at the University of Minnesota.

“By making this unique data set available now, and continuing with regular data releases every quarter, the Human Connectome Project is enabling the scientific community to immediately begin exploring relationships between brain circuits and individual behavior,” says Van Essen. “The HCP will have a major impact on our understanding of the healthy adult human brain, and it will set the stage for future projects that examine changes in brain circuits underlying the wide variety of brain disorders afflicting humankind.”

The consortium includes more than 100 investigators and technical staff at 10 institutions in the United States and Europe (www.humanconnectome.org). It is funded by 16 components of the National Institutes of Health via the Blueprint for Neuroscience Research (www.neuroscienceblueprint.nih.gov).

“The high quality of the data being made available in this release reflects an intensive, multiyear effort to improve the data acquisition and analysis methods by this dedicated international team of investigators,” says Ugurbil.

The data set includes information about brain connectivity in each individual, using two distinct magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) approaches. One, called resting-state functional connectivity, is based on spontaneous fluctuations in functional MRI signals that occur in a complex pattern in space and time throughout the gray matter of the brain. Another, called diffusion imaging, provides information about the long-distance “wiring” – the anatomical pathways traversing the brain’s white matter. Each method has its own limitations, and analyses of both functional connectivity and structural connectivity in each subject should allow deeper insight than by either method alone.

Each subject is also scanned while performing a variety of tasks within the scanner, thereby providing extensive information about “Task-fMRI” brain activation patterns. Behavioral data using a variety of tests performed outside the scanner are being released along with the scan data for each subject. The subjects are drawn from families that include siblings, some of whom are twins. This will enable studies of the heritability of brain circuits.

The imaging data set released by the HCP takes up about two terabytes (2 trillion bytes) of computer memory — the equivalent of more than 400 DVDs — and is stored in a customized database called “ConnectomeDB.”

“ConnectomeDB is the next-generation neuroinformatics software for data sharing and data mining. It’s a convenient and user-friendly way for scientists to explore the available HCP data and to download data of interest for their research,” says Daniel S. Marcus, PhD, assistant professor of radiology and director of the Neuroinformatics Research Group at Washington University School of Medicine. “The Human Connectome Project represents a major advance in sharing brain imaging data in ways that will accelerate the pace of discovery about the human brain in health and disease.”

Many people scanned reported to really like the latest Muse album.

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Sat, 09 Mar 2013 14:50:42 +1000

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strangestuffemilylikes: Abandoned stone cottage in Ireland. How...

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:45:19 +1000

strangestuffemilylikes:

Abandoned stone cottage in Ireland. How cool is this photo

*click to enlarge for maximum coolness*

Pumpkin Spice Donuts

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:50:26 +1000

Pumpkin Spice Donuts

thedailywhat: Parody Music Video of the Day: Macklemore’s...

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 13:55:25 +1000

thedailywhat:

Parody Music Video of the Day: Macklemore’s “Thrift Shop” in MS Paint

Macklemore’s Billboard #1 hit single “Thrift Shop” gets a word-for-word MS Paint treatment!

swingsetindecember: that guy’s phone in the first panel became...

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 23:05:30 +1000

swingsetindecember:

that guy’s phone in the first panel became more high tech in tony stark’s presence

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Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:10:27 +1000

smashedbear: powerburial: technology is changing the way we...

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:15:23 +1000

smashedbear:

powerburial:

technology is changing the way we interact

Omg.

jerrystandup: neon-casket: airyairyquitecontrary: Here’s an...

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 20:20:24 +1000

jerrystandup:

neon-casket:

airyairyquitecontrary:

Here’s an interesting bit of nonsense from episode 174 of Sailor Moon (or, counting another way, episode 8 of Sailor Stars). Ami impresses the other members of the Juuban High Computer Club by downloading and printing a document, which she offers to translate as it’s in English.

She says it’s from the Columbia University library site, and it’s about space engineering.

It’s the lyrics to ‘Danger Zone’ by Kenny Loggins.

OH MY GOD

LANA!!! LANA!!!!! LANA!!!

marshmallow-the-vampire-slayer: Buffy the Vampire...

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 19:25:30 +1000

it says "how do we kill them" i don't want questions about this

marshmallow-the-vampire-slayer:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

4x10 Hush

Well I completely missed this the first time I watched it… o_0

jessforlackofbettername: When i googled animorphs source

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:30:22 +1000

jessforlackofbettername:

When i googled animorphs

source

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Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:35:30 +1000

Spent my first night in Megaton taking photos cause they...

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:40:23 +1000

Spent my first night in Megaton taking photos cause they wouldn’t give me a bed.

Yet another character falls victim to unintentional derpface...

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:45:21 +1000

Yet another character falls victim to unintentional derpface syndrome.