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Kismet
12:02 Sep 20 2011
Times Read: 838

a motionless sea of which my thoughts are made spray

DIABLO III news
14:18 Sep 18 2011
Times Read: 839










Some new information about Diablo 3.

It really seems that the beta testing is near.





http://us.battle.net/d3/en/game/whats-new

Kismet
10:03 Sep 16 2011
Times Read: 842

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself. - Schlegel

Cornell's Witchcraft Collection
22:31 Sep 13 2011
Times Read: 846

Part of Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell's Witchcraft Collection contains over 3,000 titles documenting the history of the Inquisition and the persecution of witchcraft, primarily in Europe.



http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/w/witch/index.html

Lateralization of brain function
18:47 Sep 13 2011
Times Read: 852


















In contrast, prosodic language functions, such as intonation and accentuation, often are lateralized to the right hemisphere of the brain. The processing of visual and audiological stimuli, spatial manipulation, facial perception, and artistic ability seem to be functions of the right hemisphere.



Depression is linked with a hyperactive right hemisphere, with evidence of selective involvement in "processing negative emotions, pessimistic thoughts and unconstructive thinking styles", as well as vigilance, arousal and self-reflection, and a relatively hypoactive left hemisphere, "specifically involved in processing pleasurable experiences" and "relatively more involved in decision-making processes".





Additionally, "left hemisphere lesions result in an omissive response bias or error pattern whereas right hemisphere lesions result in a commissive response bias or error pattern." The delusional misidentification syndromes reduplicative paramnesia and Capgras delusion are also often the result of right hemisphere lesions.





There is evidence that the right hemisphere is more involved in processing novel situations, while the left hemisphere is most involved when routine or well rehearsed processing is called for.



Other integrative functions, including arithmetic, binaural sound localization, and emotions (lateralization of emotion), seem more bilaterally controlled.



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Specialization of the two hemispheres is general in vertebrates including fish, frogs, reptiles, birds and mammals with the left hemisphere being specialized to categorize information and control everyday, routine behavior, with the right hemisphere responsible for responses to novel events and behavior in emergencies including the expression of intense emotions. An example of a routine left hemisphere behavior is feeding behavior whereas as a right hemisphere is escape from predators and attacks from conspecifics.



Source : Wikipedia

THE MYSTICAL COUNT
22:40 Sep 12 2011
Times Read: 858

"Polish aristocrat turned Oriental wanderer, Count Jan Potocki was a child of the Enlightenment drawn to the mysticism of the Illuminati and Rosicrucians. GARY LACHMAN examines the strange life and even stranger death of the author of The Saragossa Manuscript.



Most English readers know the eccentric Count Jan Potocki as the author of one of the strangest works of 19th-century European literature, The Manuscript Found In Saragossa. The Saragossa Manuscript – as it is often called – is a weird farrago of stories within stories, with an overall supernatural bent, modelled in many ways on The Arabian Nights. Over a period of 66 days, the young Walloon officer Alphonse van Worden recounts his adventures with gypsies, cabbalists, demons, corpses, astrologers, the Wandering Jew and secret societies. The work has rightly earned Potocki a place in the ranks of the great writers of supernatural fiction. But for every child in Potocki’s native Poland, he is something more. "



http://web.archive.org/web/20020811153132/http://forteantimes.com/articles/140_potocki.shtml



This is the URL towards sa gnice article about a genius of Poland.

His book "The Saragosa Manuscript" is magnificent! Is big but really wonderful! So don`t be scared and read it!

Kismet
21:35 Sep 12 2011
Times Read: 862

there's no escape, I can see, I'm becoming someone else...

Quote
08:58 Sep 08 2011
Times Read: 868






“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.”



Lucretius