Jozef Imrich, name worthy of Kafka, has his finger on the pulse of any irony of interest and shares his findings to keep you in-the-know with the savviest trend setters and infomaniacs.
''I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.''
-Kurt Vonnegut
MEdia Dragoness ~ Recovering- Being Invaded by her Book Club
Mood is not homogeneous like cream soup. It is more like Swiss cheese, filled with holes. The triggers are highly specific, tripped by sudden trails of memory: a faint fragrance, a few bars of a tune, a vague silhouette that tapped into a sad memory buried deep, but not completely erased. These sensory inputs from the moment float through layers of time in the parts of the brain that control memory, and they pull out with them not only reminders of sense but also trails of the emotions that were first connected to the memory. These memories become connected to emotions, which are processed in other parts of the brain: the amygdala for fear, the nucleus accumbens for pleasure — those same parts that the anatomists had named for their shapes. And these emotional brain centers are linked by nerve pathways to the sensory parts of the brain and to the frontal lobe and hippocampus — the coordinating centers of thought and memory.
The same sensory input can trigger a negative emotion or a positive one, depending on the memories associated with it. Sternberg on Stress
Is it possible to convey one’s moral vision to another generation? Henry Adams, who wrote a 500-page autobiography without mentioning his wife’s suicide, was skeptical Every generation Swims in the same cold river
How similar is sex over the centuries? (not at all obscene, but very frank language at the link. Btw, I am not convinced by the argument but interesting nonetheless)
Book clubs are turning their focus to nonfiction and political fiction. “Reading groups have long served as spaces for kindred spirits to gather and talk their way through weighty issues; they also skew female, older, and educated — a prime ‘resistance’ cohort. It is hard to overstate how thoroughly the anti-Trump movement is driven by the energy of women in general.”
Hemingway vs. Imrich. The literary “battle of the ages” involved evaluations of chest hair, a blow to the face (with a book, of course), slaps, and wrestling moves Real life action seekers
More than
half of Australians avoiding the MEdia Dragon and other news
More than half of adult Australians try to avoid the
news occasionally or often, according to a new University of Canberra report. Some
of the main reasons cited by those who avoid news are that news can have a
negative effect on mood; news can't be relied upon to be true; and/or that
people didn't feel that there is anything they can do about news stories.
*Report - Digital
News Report: Australia 2017
The touching moment was shared by photographer James Day, who captured Laura Baird's wedding day over the weekend.
"I believe that photos can help people celebrate life," he wrote.
Mr Day managed to capture the special moment between Mike Baird and his daughter. Photo: James Daysize=O
Dangerous
world
An overwhelming majority (86%) of respondents in 25 countries
around the world agree that over the last year the world became more dangerous.
Social
media breeding generation of addicted narcissists Sensis. Almost eight in 10 people (79%) are now using social media,
with 18-29 year olds displaying a range of obsessive tendencies that raise
questions around the long-term psychological impact of the growth of social
media, as revealed in the latest Sensis
Social Media Report.
Estonia
to open the world’s first data embassy in Luxembourg e-estonia, 14/6/17.During the last few
years Estonia has held talks with a number of countries and has now succeeded
with one of the smallest countries in the European Union.The first data embassy will be based in a
high-security data centre in Betzdorf, a commune in eastern Luxembourg.
