Coffee & Books

Un libro es un espejo y sólo podemos encontrar el él lo que ya llevamos dentro. -Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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En fila para salir en la foto. #nature #naturaleza #greenisgood #paisaje #landscape #mexico

[iraydascafe]

¡Café, café, café! ¿Alguna vez han visto un cafeto? ¿Han probado la pulpa del fruto debajo de la cual hay dos semillas blanquecinas que tras seguir un largo proceso para secarse, tostarse y molerse se convierten en café? Espero que si, porque así uno adquiere respeto al café que está bebiendo. Para los que no, les presento la baya del café. #naturaleza #nature #cafe #coffee #fotodeldia

[iraydascafe]

You´re no what you think you are, well according to science.

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All I want for Christmas Is You.

[iraydascafe]

The cutest thing ever,

A science love song.

[iraydascafe]

La mayor parte de la grasa que una persona pierde al adelgazar se expira a través de los pulmones como dióxido de carbono, según un estudio realizado por científicos australianos publicado hoy.

[wordsnquotes]

“Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It’s your masterpiece after all.”

Nathan W. Morris (via wordsnquotes)

[purplebuddhaproject]

If flowers can teach themselves how to bloom after winter passes, so can you.

Noor Shirazie (via purplebuddhaproject)

[gosh]

[iraydascafe]

Totally wan to do that. Waves, European city and me.

[shaktilover]

I’ve noticed something about people who make a difference in the world: They hold the unshakable conviction that individuals are extremely important, that every life matters. They get excited over one smile. They are willing to feed one stomach, educate one mind, and treat one wound. They aren’t determined to revolutionize the world all at once; they’re satisfied with small changes. Over time, though, the small changes add up. Sometimes they even transform cities and nations, and yes, the world.

Beth Clark (via shaktilover)

This is how we heal

(via brittneybrightside)

We need more small changes.

[laughingsquid]

[iraydascafe]

OK! I like it!

Disney Is Producing a Live-Action Remake of the Animated Classic ‘Cinderella’

[neurosciencestuff]

Carving memories at their joints

How the brain decides when to modify old memories and when to carve new memories is revealed in a study published this week in PLOS Computational Biology.

MIT researcher Dr Samuel Gershman and his collaborators at Princeton propose a theoretical framework for understanding how the brain (to quote Plato) “carves nature at its joints”.

This study has implications for how we understand the fundamental mechanisms of memory, as well as our view of how these mechanisms go awry after brain damage.

The authors use recent ideas from machine learning to formalize the mechanisms underlying memory formation and modification.

Human participants were presented with a sequence of simple stimuli (lines varying in length and orientation) and then asked to reconstruct one of the stimuli from memory. Some stimuli contained a “jump” which generated a large ‘prediction error’. The jump appeared to induce a new memory, thereby protecting the memories of the early stimuli from interference by the later stimuli.

The theoretical framework asserts that large prediction errors will lead to memory formation, while small prediction errors will lead to memory modification.

The authors suggest that one brain area in particular—the hippocampus—plays an important role in this process. Damage to the hippocampus appears to severely impair the ability of humans and animals to carve their experience into different latent causes.

The authors commented: “Understanding how the hippocampus, in concert with other brain regions, allows us to acquire a rich internal model of the world is an important task for cognitive neuroscience.”

[iraydascafe]

100 Tricks To Help You De-Stress

Who doesn't get stressed every now and then? Between work worries ("My deadline is when?!") and personal pressures ("Whose turn is it to pick up the kids?"), it may feel like you're always on the brink of being totally overwhelmed...

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Landscapes, 2014 | by Mirko Fikentscher

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10 Ways Introverts Interact Differently With The World

Introverts and extraverts may seem the same on the surface, but if you look at the way they respond to life's everyday occurrences, differences begin to emerge. Last month, for example, Science of Us writer Melissa Dahl reported on findings from ...

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Yo veo... el primer montaje de #Navidad. (en Parque Lindavista)

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Her mind wanders.