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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
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> BTW, I find it amusing how they figured out how the brain works.
> Apparently you can remove a living person's skull and prod their brain
> with a small electrode, and see what it does to them. 0_0 Apparently
> this isn't fatal, or even painful, since the brain itself is insensitive
> to pain. [Surely your skull would hurt though??] Who the ****
> volunteered for that one?!
They do that with patients that they operate on for brain tumors. Apart
from scientific reasons they do that because they don't want to damage
functional brain tissue. Basically what they do is stimulate a point and
if the patient says he feels his feet or his thumb starts to move or he
suddenly remembers his mother, you know you should keep that part.
(depending of course on his relation with his mother).
>
> (Perhaps it was the same person who volunveered for the study into the
> common cold. They took a control group, and a group who had their feet
> submerged in cold water for 4 hours a day. The latter group suffered
> from more colds than the control group. WHY WOULD YOU VOLUNTEER FOR
> THIS?!?!)
>
money?
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andrel wrote:
> They do that with patients that they operate on for brain tumors. Apart
> from scientific reasons they do that because they don't want to damage
> functional brain tissue. Basically what they do is stimulate a point and
> if the patient says he feels his feet or his thumb starts to move or he
> suddenly remembers his mother, you know you should keep that part.
> (depending of course on his relation with his mother).
...that last sentence is so full of win! :-D
>> (Perhaps it was the same person who volunveered for the study into the
>> common cold. They took a control group, and a group who had their feet
>> submerged in cold water for 4 hours a day. The latter group suffered
>> from more colds than the control group. WHY WOULD YOU VOLUNTEER FOR
>> THIS?!?!)
>
> money?
Hot Sales Girl asserted that "that's because they're all students". And
she used to be a nurse, so I guess she'd know.
[Hmm... Hot Sales Girl as a nurse... yum!]
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> ....that last sentence is so full of win! :-D
"Did anyone give you anything unknown to carry aboard the plane?"
"My mother-in-law gave me a wrapped present."
".... Does she like you?"
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
"That's pretty. Where's that?"
"It's the Age of Channelwood."
"We should go there on vacation some time."
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> (Perhaps it was the same person who volunveered for the study into
>>> the common cold. They took a control group, and a group who had their
>>> feet submerged in cold water for 4 hours a day. The latter group
>>> suffered from more colds than the control group. WHY WOULD YOU
>>> VOLUNTEER FOR THIS?!?!)
>>
>> money?
>
> Hot Sales Girl asserted that "that's because they're all students". And
> she used to be a nurse, so I guess she'd know.
>
> [Hmm... Hot Sales Girl as a nurse... yum!]
>
Yeah, sure, I'll take the hundred grand, just crack my cranium open and
prod around a bit, please!
No. Not only no, but ...
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Darren New wrote:
> "Did anyone give you anything unknown to carry aboard the plane?"
> "My mother-in-law gave me a wrapped present."
> ".... Does she like you?"
>
"I can't remember ... By the way, does this airport smell blue, to you?"
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Jim Henderson wrote:
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> On the one hand, that makes some sense to me, but on the other hand,
> surely they would have recognized that they were moving away from the
> cows....
>
> Jim
I'm wondering if the same thing is why someone like me (who lives in an
area where there are basically no hills) sees mountains as so surreal
when I actually see them.
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On Mon, 05 May 2008 07:25:38 -0500, Mike Raiford wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
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>
>> On the one hand, that makes some sense to me, but on the other hand,
>> surely they would have recognized that they were moving away from the
>> cows....
>>
>> Jim
>
> I'm wondering if the same thing is why someone like me (who lives in an
> area where there are basically no hills) sees mountains as so surreal
> when I actually see them.
It might be. I have the opposite trouble, I lose any ability to tell long
distances in flat open areas. I grew up in an area where there were lots
of hills and mountains, and the only flat spots where the valleys in
between. A wide view of flat scenery just seems so vast, things past
about 100 meters just blend together.
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On 5 May 2008 10:20:59 -0400, Sabrina Kilian <ykg### [at] SUCKSvt edu>
wrote:
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>> I'm wondering if the same thing is why someone like me (who lives in an
>> area where there are basically no hills) sees mountains as so surreal
>> when I actually see them.
>
>It might be. I have the opposite trouble, I lose any ability to tell long
>distances in flat open areas. I grew up in an area where there were lots
>of hills and mountains, and the only flat spots where the valleys in
>between. A wide view of flat scenery just seems so vast, things past
>about 100 meters just blend together.
Me too, the city that I was born in is in a valley with the Campsie
Fells blocking the horizon. And I am only really comfortable if I can
see a mountain in the distance.
Living in Southern England the scenery seems so flat that I find it
hard to believe people like it.
When I lived in Jamaica, short time, it reminded me of home with the
Blue Mountains above the city. Except for the people being dark, the
weather good and the plants exotic :)
--
Regards
Stephen
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>> Hot Sales Girl asserted that "that's because they're all students".
>> And she used to be a nurse, so I guess she'd know.
>>
>> [Hmm... Hot Sales Girl as a nurse... yum!]
>>
>
> Yeah, sure, I'll take the hundred grand, just crack my cranium open and
> prod around a bit, please!
>
> No. Not only no, but ...
Maybe, as a student, it's a good way of confirming that there *is* a
brain there? Not just an alcohol appreciation unit? ;-)
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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On Mon, 05 May 2008 07:25:38 -0500, Mike Raiford wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>
>
>> On the one hand, that makes some sense to me, but on the other hand,
>> surely they would have recognized that they were moving away from the
>> cows....
>>
>> Jim
>
> I'm wondering if the same thing is why someone like me (who lives in an
> area where there are basically no hills) sees mountains as so surreal
> when I actually see them.
Well, I've lived in Salt Lake City now for about 13 years (hard to
believe) - kinda the opposite effect for me. When I moved here, the
mountains were fairly surreal, but now when I travel to places without
mountains, I get my directions all mixed up and the plains look extremely
unnatural.
It's actually a bit disorienting, but I think that's more about having
lost a landmark that I'm used to seeing. Except that when the cloud
cover is so bad (or the inversion's in place) that I can't see the
mountains here - that's not a problem for me. *That's* weird, though.
Jim
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