waxing onomatopoetic

wouldn't the world be easier if every word sounded like its meaning?

[the-code-of-silence]

[shmrrr]

[currentsinbiology]

Human Body from head to toes - love the toes!

[mindblowingscience]

Sebastian Seung’s Quest to Map the Human Brain

In 2005, Sebastian Seung suffered the academic equivalent of an existential crisis. More than a decade earlier, with a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Harvard, Seung made a dramatic career switch into neuroscience, a gamble that seemed to be paying off. He had earned tenure from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology a year faster than the norm and was immediately named a full professor, an unusual move that reflected the sense that Seung was something of a superstar. His lab was underwritten with generous funding by the elite Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He was a popular teacher who traveled the world — Zurich; Seoul, South Korea; Palo Alto, Calif. — delivering lectures on his mathematical theories of how neurons might be wired together to form the engines of thought.

And yet Seung, a man so naturally exuberant that he was known for staging ad hoc dance performances with Harvard Square’s street musicians, was growing increasingly depressed. He and his colleagues spent their days arguing over how the brain might function, but science offered no way to scan it for the answers. “It seemed like decades could go by,” Seung told me recently, “and you would never know one way or another whether any of the theories were correct.”

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[shmrrr]

There's nothing to say / That couldn't just as well be sent / I've got an American share of 21st century stress

Punch Brothers, I Blew It Off

[bobo543732]

“Here’s to feeling good all the time!”

[delicious--ambiguity]

Seinfeld (S05E11)

[shmrrr]

Cosmo Kramer: American Hero

[80slove]

Kramer & Jerry

[welcometogirouxsalem]

[seinfeldtv]

[kellycomarketing]

Newman sportin’ a beard, 1960s.

[alexkolebniak]

[block-blockad]

[shmrrr]

The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.

http://xkcd.com/893/

[delicious--ambiguity]

Seinfeld - S04E23

[animusrox]

[ozneo]