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Memory Without a Brain: How a Single Cell Slime Mold Makes Smart Decisions (scitechdaily)
Article about the paper: Encoding memory in tube diameter hierarchy of living flow network: "We follow experimentally the organism’s response to a nutrient source and find that memory about nutrient location is encoded in the morphology of the network-shaped organism."
Slime Molds: When Micro Becomes Macro
Ajanta Caves - Maharashtra, India
30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments which date from the 2nd century BCE to about 480 CE in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra state of India. The caves include paintings and rock-cut sculptures described as among the finest surviving examples of ancient Indian art, particularly expressive paintings that present emotions through gesture, pose and form.
Kublai Khan as the first Yuan emperor, Shizu. Yuan dynasty (1271–1368)
"There is no need to prove them wrong or right... Just play!" - MonoNeon
"The New Normal" is silly talk by fearful, half-alive people and completely misses the point..
The semantic map of Breathe - Research by Alexandre François (PDF)
Yōkai: Evoluons in Image, Definion, and Media - Presentation by Lauren Inaba (PDF)
The uniqueness of yōkai, which can be defined as Japanese supernatural beings or monsters, lay not only in the numerous and diverse characters themselves, but also in the holistic impact of the concept of yōkaion Japanese popular culture. A historical survey of yōkai reveals that the meanings and categories of “yōkai" have changed according to the Japanese peoples’ perception of the unknown and of the supernatural world. Moreover, the yōkai 's image and the accompanying narrative evolved accordingly to cope with the unknown. Finally, this study attempts to gauge how the media has had a direct influence to how people visualize and narrate yōkai. These factors regarding yōkai's creation and evolution affect how we recognize them in today's pop culture.
The Kitaro comic series by Shigeru Mizuki is fantastic
Mandelbulb
A cave in Thailand that resembles a giant snake
Shishi-Iwa (also known as Lion Rock) in Mie Prefecture, Japan
Today many seem to strongly believe this: God is Dead, Long Live Technology! And the more authoritarian and incomprehensible the technology is, the better. The same old story from the great monotheistic traditions, recycled.
Art by Thomas Dubois
Reality Tunnel
Fire
Charles Fort (1874 - 1932) - writer and researcher who specialized in anomalous phenomena