Carrying a camera

I’ve posted before about the value of carrying a camera everywhere. I’ve got two cameras (well, three if you count my mobile phone), a Nikon D70 which takes wonderful high quality photos, and a Nikon Coolpix S10. The D70 is BIG. It’s a conscious decision to take it with me, and, usually, I do that [...]

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Order, chaos, or something inbetween

I came across an excellent article about epilepsy recently. There’s a common belief that a seizure is a kind of chaos of the brain. In fact, it’s the opposite. A seizure is where the complex patterns of electrical activity in the brain break down and are replaced temporarily with a single big co-ordinated pattern.
A normal [...]

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little BIG inspirations

This tiny little plant is only about the size of my little finger. It’s so small, it would’ve been easy to miss it, but I’m glad I didn’t.
It inspires me for so many reasons.
I love the fact that what catches the attention is the spaces. They’re the first thing you notice. Almost as if when [...]

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What do you see?

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Mood and the culturally constructed self

Here’s an interesting piece of research.
Psychologists decided to study how mood affected a sense of identity. The first thing they did was split the volunteer subjects into two groups – European and Asian. They claim that Europeans culturally value individuality and independence most highly, whilst Asians rate community and harmony most highly. I can see [...]

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Emotional traffic lights

I stopped at a junction in Aix en Provence. The traffic lights in France include a set fixed at car level, as well as a set higher up. This particular set has been enhanced by someone with a sense of humour.
Emoticons on the traffic signals, huh?
Nice idea!

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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee

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The Spirit Level. Alternative paths out of this mess we’re in

I don’t know about you but in the middle of this “world economic crisis” I’m just not hearing what seems like a decent plan. The main so-called solutions seem to be about how to get people borrowing and spending again. But weren’t borrowing and spending actually at the heart of the problem? Wasn’t it the [...]

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Supersizing the Mind. Andy Clark

Where does your mind exist? There’s a longstanding “common sense” view that it’s inside your skull. But, it’s becoming apparent, that is far from the whole story. Yes, of course a lot of what we call the mind is related to brain activity and the brain is indeed inside the skull, but many researchers are [...]

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Diversity

Look at these daffodils.
All daffodils, but all so different.

I love and am endlessly amazed by the diversity of Nature.
I am reminded every day how different we all are. Every patient I meet tells me a new story, one I’ve never heard before. The appeal of diversity and difference, of uniqueness, is probably one of the [...]

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