L.Esdee @lucyesdeee-blog - Tumblr Blog

Hi guys! I have an instagram where I post all the cool and creepy content you see on my blog. I also put a dash of my own life in it from places to go to delicious foods I get.

https://www.instagram.com/sixpenceee/

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FOOD

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YES

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Okay, something about that first one is seriously freaky.

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That church definitly has something ghastly about it.

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Reblogging for the gif

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same

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Study tip:

Take water into the exam, to minimize dehydration after crying.

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Stories from the Sixpenceee Forum

Here creepy stories that you may enjoy, posted by tumblr users on the forum.

1. ) Backwards by JaneDoe No.52

http://sixpenceeestories.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=2170 2.) Motherhood by slydigg

http://sixpenceeestories.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=2137 3.) The Strange Family by Dangaroo

http://sixpenceeestories.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=1795 4.) Found under the knee by mindtundeer

http://sixpenceeestories.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2176 5.) 15 to Midnight by addictedtostories21

http://sixpenceeestories.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2125

Remember that you can still enter the May - June Story Contest

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these fucked me up

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Ahhh!!! The Strange Family freaks me out EVERYTIME

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15 to Midnight scared the hell out of me

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@sixpenceee Meet Baby Bucket, a project of mine that helped me make it through art in college.

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Dat quality! via /r/DatBoi http://ift.tt/1raCl1b

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Watch: Rather than let him cry, his mom had a suggestion for how they could save the planet today.

Follow @the-future-now

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Precious baby, no D:

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dat🎨boi via /r/DatBoi http://ift.tt/25JC7RL

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Barely Enough Contraception

Previous.

Before I write this whole thing out, let me just make it perfectly clear: I’m glad so many people are choosing to practice safe sex. It proves the citywide sex education programs are working. However (and it’s a big however), the dramatic uptick in people coming to our clinic looking for contraception is coupled the equally dramatic uptick in the number of people looking for treatments for sexually-transmitted infections. I don’t want anyone to think we’re not capable of meeting the needs of all these people, so I’m not going to give out our name or where we’re located. We can do it, it’s just a lot more work. Besides, all the other area clinics have reported similar increases.

I’m not a prude or anything - hell, it’d be hard for me to have this job if I were - but I’ll admit I’m unsettled by what all these increases suggest. I’ll put it this way: on a normal day, we give out about 100 condoms. We see maybe 30 patients who get diagnosed with some form of STI. Over the last three weeks, we’ve been giving out between 800 and 1000 condoms. The number of patients who we diagnose with an STI is up to 250 per day. Hell, yesterday it was almost 300. We had to extend our hours and hire extra nurses from the hospital to help. Dr. Carnera even used up her last prescription pad and we had to send Latavia across town to get more from the other office.

The waiting room’s been full from open to close every day. Thank God our condom supplier didn’t blink when we asked for a huge shipment increase. They’ve always been good to us; we’ve been getting free condoms for 6 years now. Shows that some big companies really do have social responsibility. I remember Dr. Carnera was worried when GeneMedica got bought up by that big AppDyn conglomerate. She thought that meant we’d stop getting all the free contraceptives and lab equipment. Thankfully, it all just kept going without a hiccup. Knowing they’ll be able to meet our increased demand definitely helps take some of the stress off us.

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If you can’t imagine things, how can you learn?

We know some people can’t conjure up mental images. But we’re only beginning to understand the impact this “aphantasia” might have on their education.

Never underestimate the power of visualisation. It may sound like a self-help mantra, but a growing body of evidence shows that mental imagery can accelerate learning and improve performance of all sorts of skills. For athletes and musicians, “going through the motions,” or mentally rehearsing the movements in the mind, is just as effective as physical training, and motor imagery can also help stroke patients regain function of their paralysed limbs.

For most of us, visual imagery is essential for memory, daydreaming and imagination. But some people apparently lack a mind’s eye altogether, and find it impossible to conjure up such visual images – and their inability to do so may affect their ability to learn and their educational performance.

Firefox co-creator Blake Ross recently described how it feels to be blind in your mind, and his surprise at the revelation that other people can visualise things. “I can’t ‘see’ my father’s face or a bouncing blue ball, my childhood bedroom or the run I went on ten minutes ago,” he wrote on Facebook. “I thought ‘counting sheep’ was a metaphor. I’m 30 years old and I never knew a human could do any of this. And it is blowing my goddamned mind.”

We’ve known that some people cannot visualise things in their mind’s eye since the 1880s, when the controversial psychologist Francis Galton – one of the pioneers of eugenics – published a paper called Statistics of Mental Imagery. Galton set out to “define the different degrees of vividness with which different persons have the faculty of recalling familiar scenes under the form of mental pictures”.

He asked his scientific colleagues to think of their breakfast table and describe to him the vividness of their impressions, and found this ability varied markedly – some individuals could draw up a mental image just as brilliant as the scene itself, whereas others could only conjure up an extremely dim image, or none at all.

Today, neurologists refer to this inability to form mental images as “congenital aphantasia” – from the Greek words a, meaning “without”, and phantasia, meaning “a capacity to form mental images” – and they believe it affects approximately 2% of the population, or one in 50 people. Remarkably, though, aphantasics do experience visual imagery in their dreams, so it seems that only voluntary visualisation is affected.

In the classroom, mental imagery seems to be especially important for reading comprehension and learning word meanings, and, according to at least to one theory, is a cornerstone for literacy.

Dual-coding theory, put forward by Allan Paivio of the University of Western Ontario in 1971, distinguishes between verbal and non-verbal thought processes, and places mental imagery as the primary form of non-verbal representation. Thus, information is stored in two different ways – verbally and visually – and although these two codes are independent of one another, and can each be used alone, they can also interact to enhance learning and recall.

Dual-coding theory has its limitations, the main one being the assumption that thought processes are based on nothing but words and images. Nevertheless, numerous studies published since the early 1970s confirm that mental imagery does indeed play an important role in how schoolchildren acquire literacy skills.

The work shows, for example, that mental imagery helps eight-year-olds remember what they read, and that students who are asked to create mental images during word memory tasks learn two and a half times as much as those who are told merely to repeat the words they need to remember. Verbal recall and visual images do appear to be separate but related, and while the ability to use imagery is not directly related to measures of intelligence, vocabulary, and reading comprehension, the spontaneous use of imagery helps children to learn and understand prose.

More recently, other studies have shown that mental imagery can help students grasp abstract concepts, and that encouraging students to use imagery can improve their understanding of such concepts.

One study shows that using mental imagery helps primary school pupils learn and understand new scientific words, and that their subjective reports of the vividness of their images is closely related to the extent to which imagery enhances their learning. Visualisation techniques are also helpful for the teaching and learning of mathematics and computer science, both of which involve an understanding of the patterns within numbers, and creating mental representations of the spatial relationships between them.

Aphantasia could possibly affect how students revise for exams, too. Using mind maps is one common strategy, which has been shown to effectively help them retain and recall information, and merely visualising the appropriate page of their revision notes can also help them to recall the information on it. It follows, then, that an inability to create mental images would hinder students’ abilities to use such strategies.

Although aphantasia was first recognised more than one hundred years ago, there has been very little systematic research on the phenomenon, and so we still know very little about it.

For example, are people with aphantasia able to imagine sounds or touch sensations, or does the condition affect imagery in senses other than vision? Galton alluded to this in his original 1880 paper, concluding that “the missing faculty seems to be replaced so serviceably by other modes of conception… Men who declare themselves entirely deficient in the power of seeing mental pictures can nevertheless give life-like descriptions of what they have seen.”

Regardless, research into visual imagery would seem to suggest that students with aphantasia are likely to experience difficulties with learning, but as yet there is no research confirming that this is the case.

“We know that children with aphantasia tend not to enjoy descriptive texts, and this may well influence their reading comprehension,” says neurologist Adam Zeman of the University of Exeter who, together with his colleagues, gave the condition its name last year. “But there isn’t any evidence directly linking it to learning disabilities yet.”

Zeman adds that people with aphantasia may be able to form visual images, but just don’t have conscious access to them. “The story really is still at the early stages, so the implications for education haven’t been explored,” he says.

Researchers use questionnaires to determine the vividness of mental images, and people’s scores on these tests are closely correlated to measures of activity in visual brain regions.

Thus, it may be possible to objectively measure individual differences or variations in the vividness of people’s mental images, and to identify students who have aphantasia. If it becomes clear that the condition does in fact impinge on children’s ability to learn, it may then be possible to devise alternative learning strategies for them.

Image Credit: Sophie Wolfson

Source: Guardian (by Mo Costandi)

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(I decided to start 100 days of productivity since today I was being quite productive :D although I was grumpy for half of the day lol)

Here’s a Biology mindmap for Hormones chapter!

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Never accept a job without knowing what your work will be used for. I don’t think I’ll ever forgive myself for being part of something like this.

As one might imagine, a degree in Film doesn’t immediately lead to job offers. At the age of 23, I was desperately looking for a job - any job, really - but if I could find one that used my talents and my passion, I’d be ecstatic. When I refreshed the job section of Craigslist and saw, “Cameraman Wanted” with an email address, I shot off an email as fast as I could and within an hour I heard back.

After a brief email exchange, the next day I ended up interviewing with a thin, well-dressed man in a beautiful midtown apartment. The man, who introduced himself as Andrew, was polite and straightforward. “Do you have any moral issues with homosexuality and filming homosexual acts?” he asked, studying me for a reaction.

I thought for a minute. I really didn’t want to be involved with porn. The gay thing didn’t bother me; my brother’s gay, but I worried getting myself involved in the porn industry would look bad on my resume. Still, I was broke. I told him it was no problem. Andrew smiled and discussed some of the specifics of what the job entailed.

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There’s a fine line between a numerator and a denominator.

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Only a fraction of you will understand this.

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Some people appreciate these jokes, some don’t, and the division is clear.

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Overall, some part of us will enjoy a good laugh

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The rest are obviously improper.

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I was told that if I came to the party that I could have a piece of pi

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fun things to do in lab

accidentally crushing a pcr tube when opening it with one hand

dropping… anything. especially an entire box of frozen samples.

slightly too large gloves and getting them caught as you close tubes

when the magnetic spin bar spins too fast and does the thing

listening to someone else’s forgotten timer go off

“uh… what’s that smell..”

going in for a pipette tip and then overturning the entire box

16 hour time-points

srsly who invented 16 hr time-points

they’re inhumane

labelling rows and rows of 600 ul microcentrifuge tubes by hand

“we’re sorry but this reagent has been back-ordered for 3 months”

listening to the scraping noise of plastic culture flasks on metal shelves

getting your samples stuck in any sort of machine

“i need you to go and catalog every chemical we have”

cleaning cell culture incubators with aerosolized 70% ethanol

having the fire alarms go off when you’re literally in the middle of something that can not be put down no i will perish in this fire before i forgo this damn experiment!

that sense of pure panic when you realize you miscalculated how much reagent you need

“one of your mice died and its cage mates ate half the body”

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doing a fluorescence assay and having people constantly come in and turn on the lights

screaming at the people who turn on the lights

seriously if the lights are off it’s probably for a reason

sneaking coffee into lab

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A compilation of some of these little porcelain creeps and more

ROBERT THE HAUNTED DOLL A doll where the original family caught it running from room to room and speaking to their little boy. The doll now resides in Fort East Martello Museum, where staff have creepy experiences with this doll. More information here

DOLL WITH 3 FACES

what even

DOLL THAT AGED

When the family first bought this doll, it was brand new. They put it away in a chest and to their surprise when they took it out after a couple years, it looked withered down, as if it had turned into an old man. More information here

REBORN BABY DOLLS

Dolls made to look exactly like a real life baby. They feel and weigh like one too.

They have a toddler version

And a small child one

WHAT

a doll designed for shaving?

REAL LIFE BARBIE

A women who dresses and attempts to look like a real life barbie. The effects are unsettling at times.

THE HAUNTED MANNEQUIN

La Pascualita, the corpse bride is a supposedly haunted mannequin. There have been plenty of creepy experiences with this one, but the most outstanding fact is the legend that she isn’t a mannequin at all, but the perfectly preserved corpse of the last owner’s daughter!

TODDLERPEDES

Artist Jon Beinart t thought this was a terrifying idea and he was right.

ISLAND OF DOLLS

This entire island is filled with discarded doll parts, inspired by a little girl who drowned near the island.

MUMMY/ZOMBIE DOLLS

made by artist Shain Erin

MANDY THE HAUNTED DOLL

Mandy is a porcelain baby doll made in England or Germany between 1910 and 1920 and donated to the Quesnel Museum in British Columbia in 1991. Mandy’s donor had said she would hear crying in the middle of the night coming from the basement, and it wasn’t until after she gave Mandy away that the crying ceased.

DOLL CAM

Just recently made a post about this, but it’s where you can go and view a live stream of haunted dolls all gathered together in one house! Try and see if you find any suspicious activity. Here’s the post

DEMONIC DOLL

You probably recognize this from the Conjuring. It’s based on a true story. A couple of girls noticed strange activity in the doll. They would come home and find it in a different place than where they put it. Soon notes began to appear from nowhere, saying “MISS ME” and “PLEASE HELP”.

Soon the doll’s activities began to be more sinister and mediums were called and confirmed it was a demon hosting the doll’s body.

More information here

REMEMBER THIS TERRIFYING GIF?