Variable captures Phagwah (aka. Holi), my second favorite Hindu festival, with a high-speed camera.
Citing this post: Urbano, L., 2012. Phagwah (Holi) in Slow Motion, Retrieved May 19th, 2012, from Montessori Muddle: http://MontessoriMuddle.org/ .
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by Micaël Reynaud.
This amazing morphing of old masterpieces by Micaël Reynaud is worth enlarging. Warning: it’s about 10 Mb and you might just have to keep focused on the eyes to avoid motion sickness.
It’s similar to Philip Scott Johnson video below (you can find information about the artworks used here).
ᔥ Micaël Reynaud ↬ mlkshk.com ↬ The Dish.
Citing this post: Urbano, L., 2012. Morphing Art History, Retrieved May 19th, 2012, from Montessori Muddle: http://MontessoriMuddle.org/ .
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Poster from the CDC.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has been thinking about the potential for a zombie apocalypse. You can find a page on Zombie Preparedness on their website, as well as a graphic novel (9Mb pdf).
If you are generally well equipped to deal with a zombie apocalypse you will be prepared for a hurricane, pandemic, earthquake, or terrorist attack.
– Ali Khan (2011) (Head of the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention): Quoted in Zombie Preparedness on the CDC website.
NOTE: The CDC recommends you quarantine zombies rather than kill them; Kyle Munkittrick, of the Pop Bioethics blog disagrees.
Citing this post: Urbano, L., 2012. The CDC on Zombie Preparedness, Retrieved May 19th, 2012, from Montessori Muddle: http://MontessoriMuddle.org/ .
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I just discovered there’s an entire website dedicated to the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide. I particularly like their research page that includes the results from several middle and high school research projects.
Dihydrogen Monoxide.
Citing this post: Urbano, L., 2012. Dihydrogen Monoxide: Fatal if Inhaled, Retrieved May 19th, 2012, from Montessori Muddle: http://MontessoriMuddle.org/ .
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Some people can hear with their eyes. It’s called synesthesia, and it happens when the different sensory systems get crossed. A new app, Sonified, lets you experience it, as the video below demonstrates.
(via The Dish)
Citing this post: Urbano, L., 2012. Hearing Color, Retrieved May 19th, 2012, from Montessori Muddle: http://MontessoriMuddle.org/ .
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There are some things in this world that we are willing to trade, things that we can put a dollar value on, but there are other things — call them sacred things — values and beliefs that just don’t register on any monetary scale. New research (summarized by Keim, 2012) emphasizes this intuitive understanding, by showing that different part of the brain are used to evaluate these two different types of things.
[W]hen people didn’t sell out their principles, it wasn’t because the price wasn’t right. It just seemed wrong. “There’s one bucket of things that are utilitarian, and another bucket of categorical things,” [neuroscientist Greg Berns] said. “If it’s a sacred value to you, then you can’t even conceive of it in a cost-benefit framework.”
– Keim, 2012: Profit vs. Principle: The Neurobiology of Integrity in Wired (via The Dish).
Some of the biggest implications of this work has to do with economics. The traditional, rational view has been that people evaluate everything by comparing the costs versus the benefits. When economists take that rational view of human behavior into other fields, there is a strong sense of overreach (see Freakonomics).
The growing research into behavioral economics, on the other hand, is making a spirited effort grapple with the irrationality of human behavior, much of which probably stems from these two different value systems (sacred vs. cost/benefit). While it’s not exactly the same thing, Dan Ariely‘s books are a good, popular compilation of observations and anecdotes that highlight how people’s irrational behavior extends even into the marketplace.
Citing this post: Urbano, L., 2012. Different Types of Values, Retrieved May 19th, 2012, from Montessori Muddle: http://MontessoriMuddle.org/ .
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I’ve always been in favor of alternate means of presenting information, especially for recipes.
Stop-Motion Biscuit Cake from Alan Travers on Vimeo.
(via The Dish)
Citing this post: Urbano, L., 2011. Stop-Motion Recipe, Retrieved May 19th, 2012, from Montessori Muddle: http://MontessoriMuddle.org/ .
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Evidence.
Citing this post: Urbano, L., 2011. The Dog Ate My Homework, Retrieved May 19th, 2012, from Montessori Muddle: http://MontessoriMuddle.org/ .
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