Although we have the illusion of receiving high-resolution images from our eyes, what the optic nerve actually sends to the brain is just outlines and clues about points of interest in our visual field. We then essentially hallucinate the world from cortical memories that interpret a series of extremely low-resolution movies that arrive in parallel channels.
Ray Kurzweil (via inthenoosphere)
“We essentially hallucinate the world”
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Context is that dynamic space couched between what we sell as companies and what our customers believe they buy.
Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
rounding: People make terrible anchors
Sand castles don’t generally last too long. But that didn’t stop us from spending hours building them. Our own summer vacation mandalas. Alive only for the moment. If we were lucky our parents took a picture. Eyes bright, bucket in hand we grin. Our castle safe on Kodak forever.
In reality,…
this is just the perspective i needed, right when i needed it.
Patrick Cassels 100% For Actual!: Pat's Top 7 Most Badass Scenes From "Top Gun"
7. Maverick outmaneuvers a MiG-28
We’re barely out of the opening credits, and already Maverick (Tom Cruise) is kicking ass and taking names as he plays chicken with an enemy aircraft over the Indian ocean. It’s this ballsy maneuver that gets the Mav’ into Top Gun naval academy.
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on the edge of summer with kathryn at Bryant Park – View on Path.
master chang and his pals with kathryn at NY Public Library - Stephen A. Schwarzman Building – View on Path.
wnyc:
Ice Cubes Made from Tonic Water…
Folks were serious about their g & t’s back in ‘73!
Early running for best tip of the summer.
-Jody, BL Show-
mad g&t’s this summer
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