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The flowing water in the brook .. By © Dubi Roman

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Attention on the Brain

Research links mindfulness meditation with everything from metacognition to cortical thickness in the brain, says APS Fellow Tania Singer. She and other psychological scientists impart the latest findings from the science of paying attention.

Tang’s research on a particular form of mindfulness training, integrative body–mind training (IBMT), suggests that five 20-minute training sessions may be enough to improve attention and cause changes in underlying brain activity.

These findings are tantalizing, but Tang noted that future research should examine the effects of different types of mindfulness programs to isolate the specific components of mindfulness.

It’s exactly this kind of isolation on which APS Fellow Tania Singer (Max Planck Institute for Higher Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany) has focused her efforts.

In an ongoing effort called the ReSource Project (see www.resource-project.org/en/home.html), Singer and colleagues have been trying to tease apart the various cognitive, affective, and metacognitive processes involved in practices that people generally associate with “mindfulness meditation.”

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The Phenomenon Of “Crown Shyness” Where Trees Avoid Touching

Crown shyness is a naturally occurring phenomenon in some tree species where the upper most branches in a forest canopy avoid touching one another. The visual effect is striking as it creates clearly defined borders akin to cracks or rivers in the sky when viewed from below. Although the phenomenon was first observed in the 1920s, scientists have yet to reach a consensus on what causes it. According to Wikipedia it might simply be caused by the trees rubbing against one another, although signs also point to more active causes such as a preventative measure against shading (optimizing light exposure for photosynthesis) or even as a deterrent for the spread of harmful insects. (via Kottke, Robert Macfarlane

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Figure 3. Spiral patterns formed when a ferrofluid droplet in a Hele-Shaw cell is stressed by a uniform axial magnetic field: (a) labyrinth; (b) and (c) clockwise spiral flow; (d) initial drop shape; (b) and (c) discrete droplet structure and “surface hair” (reprinted from Ref. [43] with permission from Elsevier). 

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M.I.T. HELE-SHAW FERROHYDRODYNAMICS

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Linden Gledhill and Craig Ward have developed Fe2O3 Glyphs, wild-looking characters created by putting a ferrofluid between glass plates and subjecting it to spinning magnetic fields. 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mrcraigward/fe2o3-glyphs-a-conceptual-ornamental-type-system

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Ferrofluid - Magnetic pattern I

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From: Organic Geometry Facebook Group

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Outer Places

Outer Places. 121,493 likes · 175,654 talking about this. Outer Places - Where Science Meets Science Fiction http://www.outerplaces.com twitter.com/outerplaces

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Flow project. A continuous mood diary by V^n

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A diagram of the optimal branching structures for systems with fixed "sinks" — nodes where the flow branches further down the path. Image Credit: Dan Hu/David Cai/PRL

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Aerial photographs of Iceland by Emmanuel Coupe-Kalomiris

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Spacemaps for Milo Maria foil screenprinting on silk, fashion collection.

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Livespiin by Naviretlav

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