Ben je boos? Pluk een roos motherfucker!
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Skinbone - 100 Miles (A Thousand Miles Remix)
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Building an underground house
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Three bowls do I mix for the temperate: one to health, which they empty first; the second to love and pleasure; the third to sleep. When this bowl is drunk up, wise guests go home. The fourth bowl is ours no longer, but belongs to violence; the fifth to uproar; the sixth to drunken revel; the seventh to black eyes; the eighth is the policeman’s; the ninth belongs to biliousness; and the tenth to madness and the hurling of furniture.
Simple Minds playing in an abandoned mall.
Late capitalism in one single image.
Half kunstwerk is ook kunst. Anders Krisár heeft aan de helft genoeg met zijn surrealisitsche bronzen sculpturen.
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Kintsugi (or kintsukuroi) is a Japanese method for repairing broken ceramics with a special lacquer mixed with gold, silver, or platinum. The philosophy behind the technique is to recognize the history of the object and to visibly incorporate the repair into the new piece instead of disguising it. The process usually results in something more beautiful than the original.
(via Kintsugi: The Art of Broken Pieces | Colossal)
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Brick
Monograms of the artists of the Vienna Secession (1902)
While the research involved only 18 patients and was designed primarily to look at the safety of such a procedure and not its effectiveness, it is creating significant buzz in the neuroscience community because the results appear to contradict a core belief about brain damage — that it is permanent and irreversible.
The one-time therapy involved surgeons drilling a hole into the study participants’ skulls and injecting stem cells in several locations around the area damaged by the stroke. These stem cells were harvested from the bone marrow of adult donors. While the procedure sounds dramatic, it is considered relatively simple as far as brain surgery goes. The patients were conscious the whole time and went home the same day.
They suffered minimal adverse effects such as temporary headaches, nausea and vomiting. One patient experienced some fluid buildup from the procedure that had to be drained but recovered fully from the issue. The volunteers were then tested at one month, six and 12 months after surgery using brain imaging and several standard scales that look at speech, vision, motor ability and other aspects of daily functioning.
Steinberg said that the study does not support the idea that the injected stem cells become neurons, as has been previously thought. Instead, it suggests that they seem to trigger some kind of biochemical process that enhances the brain’s ability to repair itself.
And this interesting bit from the Slashdot threadL
And “OH” – the most interesting part (I didn’t read the article cited in TFA, but I’ve read a few on this subject and know one of the folks in the trial) is that the stem cells die off pretty quick. They just seem to “spark” brain cells to go “Hey guys! Lets hold hands” and magically make new connections.
Zacharie Gaudrillot-Roy’s isolated façades leave an eerie architectural absence
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