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Tag Archives: studies
Sweet Dreams
From Psychology Today How to Get Great Sleep: Everyone has a troubled night sometimes, or even a run of them, which happens to the average person about once a year. It’s part of being human, subject to stress and worry. … Continue reading
Electronic Biologia Centrali-Americana
Electronic Biologia Centrali-Americana – This digital edition of the important and out-of-print Biologia Centrali-Americana makes all 58 biological volumes available. Descriptions of over 50,000 and images of over 18,000 species of animals and plants are now accessible as never before. … Continue reading
Notes on … Series: Analysis of Beatles’ songs
Something for Beatlesmaniacs or curious people: Alan W. Pollack’s Notes on … Series In 1989 the American musicologist Alan W. Pollack started to analyze the songs of the Beatles. He published his first results on internet. In 1991 – after … Continue reading
Disembodied Voices
Disembodied Voices is a meditation on the nature of public space. Using the cell phone as a metaphor, this project will connect users and will investigate this changing nature of public space into a wirelessly connected translocal, where each person … Continue reading
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Tagged audio, behaviour, media, sound, studies, technology, voices
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Jesuits in the Sciences
Jesuits in the Sciences 1540 – 1995: an exhibit of rare scientific works from the Cudahy Collection of Jesuitica.
The Dark Room
The Dark Room: a very cool site that makes an analyse about Films Noir through a singe image. It’s an interesting way to explain the characteristics of Film Noir, but unhappyly some links are under construction. (via Life In The … Continue reading
The Genographic Project
The Genographic Project – Human Migration, Population Genetics, Maps, DNA. The National Geographic Society, IBM, geneticist Spencer Wells, and the Waitt Family Foundation have launched the Genographic Project, a five-year effort to understand the human journey – where we came … Continue reading
Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena
Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena These pages demonstrate visual phenomena, called “optical illusions” or “visual illusions”. The latter is more appropriate, because most effects have their basis in the visual pathway, not in the optics of the eye. I selected … Continue reading
Happiness Is the Best Medicine
An interesting Wired article: Happiness Is the Best Medicine. The pursuit of it was written into the Declaration of Independence, but finding the causes and effects of that elusive “it” — happiness — has been notoriously difficult. Whatever brings you … Continue reading
Minerva Britanna
The Minerva Britanna Minerva Britanna, the 1612 book by Henry Peacham, widely acknowledged as the most sophisticated and intriguing English example of the enormous vogue of word and picture books produced during the Renaissance under the rubric of emblem books, … Continue reading
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Tagged books, culture, History, illustration, literature, studies
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