Delicious bookmarks for January 23rd through February 9th:
- Digital Overload Is Frying Our Brains | Wired Science from Wired.com – "Dark ages are times of forgetting, when the advancements of the past are underutilized. If we forget how to use our powers of deep focus, we'll depend more on black-and-white thinking, on surface ideas, on surface relationships. That breeds a tremendous potential for tyranny and misunderstanding. The possibility of an attention-deficient future society is very sobering. "
- Bloop – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – "According to scientists who have studied the phenomenon it matches the audio profile of a living creature but there is no known animal that could have produced the sound. If it is an animal, it would have to be, reportedly, much larger than even a Blue Whale, the largest known animal on the earth."
- Readers build vivid mental simulations of narrative situations, brain scans suggest – "Readers understand a story by simulating the events in the story world and updating their simulation when features of that world change."
- Thought proving charity art exhibition at the Sutton Poyntz waterworks. (From Dorset Echo) –
- Doll Fabbed From Living Cells: Science Fiction in the News – "A tiny doll made of living cells was fabricated by researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Industrial Science. The intent was to demonstrate the possibility of making three-dimensional biological structures, like human organs"





















