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For the last 500 years, the locals of Nongriat in Meghalaya, India have grown several hundred bridges across the region’s numerous water channels, using just the roots of local ribber trees. Some of the bridges extend over 100 feet in length and are strong enough to support more than 50 people at a time. 

Human Brains Are Primally Wired to Notice Animals

Surrounded by technology and urbanity though we may be, the human brain remains profoundly hard-wired to respond to animals.

When people are shown pictures of animals, specific parts of the amygdala — a structure central to pleasure and pain, fear and reward — react almost instantly.

Put another way, glimpsing a bird at the feeder or a shark on Animal Planet, or even a plankitten, could invoke cognitive tricks inherited from ancestors who walked on four legs in shallow water.

The effect is large and consistent, and “may reflect the importance that animals held throughout our evolutionary past,” wrote researchers led by California Institute of Technology neurobiologist Florian Mormann in an Aug. 29 Nature Neuroscience paper.

The researchers had access to a unique group of research subjects: 41 people receiving surgery for drug-resistant epilepsy. Prior to surgery, doctors needed to map their minds, a task performed by inserting electrodes into different parts of their brains, then measuring neuron-by-neuron responses to stimuli.

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blogut:

Valletta Twilight 8 by Micko-vic

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urbanehood:

(by Katrin Schaak)

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paperalligator:

Hey, it’s September! Which means I have a few illustrations I can get to share, including the children’s book I finished over winter. I have to update the website for that though. But in the meantime, this summer was a good time to draw dogs; the first was a piece for <i>Rhode Island Monthly</i> about ‘yappy hour’ for dogs, and the second was for <i>Vegetarian Times</i> (about exercising with your pet). I love drawing animals, so it’s a no brainer.

I’m hoping to eke out some time to develop some personal projects over the fall… stay tuned.

anthropogenics:

ANNA RISTUCCIA

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Never Forget, NYC

gamefreaksnz:

Dead Island digital comic now available

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Jen Stark “Melting Point” (Detail), Cut Paper on Wood, 21” x 132”, 2011

Jen Stark PULSE Los Angeles September 30 - October 3, 2011 www.showandtellgallery.com (via Art PR Wire)