A Terrible Wet Pond

Weekend Food – science: Differential Contribution of Hippocampal Subfields to Components of Associative Taste Learning

…..that is, the squiggly thingy there inside a brain region, a little low-midway, does a taste/time triage. 

Differential Contribution of Hippocampal Subfields to Components of Associative Taste Learning

Adaikkan Chinnakkaruppan1,

Marie E. Wintzer3,

Thomas J. McHugh3,*, and

Kobi Rosenblum1,2,*

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Author contributions: A.C., T.J.M., and K.R. designed research; A.C.,…

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00870/full

Language comprehension warps the mirror neuron system

Noah Zarr1, Ryan Ferguson1 and Arthur M. Glenberg1,2*

1Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

2Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA

Is the mirror neuron system (MNS) used in language understanding? According…

Weekend Food: Do We Owe Our Large Primate Brains to a Passion for Fruit?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/food-for-thought-do-we-owe-our-large-primate-brains-to-a-passion-for-fruit/

Compared with other mammals, and along with those of a few other notably bright creatures—dolphins, whales and elephants among them—the brain to body-size ratios of monkeys, apes and humans are among the highest. For decades the prevailing evolutionary explanation for this was…

Weekend Food: Flavor Science: the long history of chianti…

http://phys.org/news/2012-12-classics-professor-unearths-archaeological-clues.html

Classics professor unearths archaeological clues about ancient Roman vineyards December 6, 2012 by Elizabeth Bettendorf 

They may not look like much to the untrained eye, but these ancient Roman grape seeds, believed to back to the 1st century A.D., could provide “a real breakthrough” in the understanding of the…

old notes: narrative – A Detached Sense of Self Associated with Altered Neural Responses to Mirror Touch

http://neurocritic.blogspot.in/2016/03/a-detached-sense-of-self-associated.html?m=1

comment: … something odd about words and expressions. Irrefutable they are, after all they’ve been expressed, written – you’re reading them now but I’m not. As you read – even if you were glancing over my shoulder in this caffe – for you they’re being integrated, recurred into meaning whereas for me at each moment…

Wed. Will: The Bard on maladies and medicine, in this heavy, covid, viralled moment…

Shakespeare and Medicine Bard Was Well Versed in Human Afflictions and Their Treatments The following article includes a glossary at the end of the text . By Michael J. Cummings..© 2003 Revised in 2010.©

Shakespeare and Medicine

…….Scholars often conjecture that Shakespeare’s knowledge of medicine was mainly the product of his relationship with John Hall, a physician and herbalist who…

old notes: Fat Tuesday, Trump

Fat Tuesday. Later I’ll be making some Tagliatelle, something I haven’t done in… more than a decade. But first…Trump.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/trump-is-the-gop-rudolf-hess/

I have a deal with Trump, Bannon and company. It isn’t a fear but a weariness, a personal one, stemming from … the place I come from. My family. And because of my ignorance, earlier, or indifference…

vecchi apunti, Roma, Piazza del Popolo, priming, carnevale, Ella.

…Fat Tuesday. Roma, centro. Una passeggiata veloce su per Trinita’, la scalata, e poi giu da sopra, Piazza del Popolo. Solito Carnevale, cavalli, bambini in costume, turisti con varie espressioni di quasi …stupore divertite, diciamo. Alcune ragazze vestite in modo particolarmente improbabile ma con l’intento chiaro, con sguardi soliti che cercano se stesso fuori se stesso, anche fuori…

Weekend Food: Energetic Women, great cheese (farindola)

http://ht.ly/boVUu

Consorzio di Tutela del Pecorino di Farindola

Nine small towns on the eastern slopes of  Abruzzo’s Gran Sasso Mountains make Pecorino Farindola. Unique in Italy and perhaps the world, this raw sheep’s milk cheese is set with pig rennet to give it its unique aroma and flavour, and is regarded as a pearl to be protected by the Slow Food Movement.

The cheese has been made…

Wd. Will: “Strange things I have in head”: Evidence of Prion Disease in Shakespeare’s Macbeth

Wed. Will: “Strange things I have in head”: Evidence of Prion Disease in Shakespeare’s Macbeth

Macbeth’s descent into madness often elicits psychological interpretations, but he experienced neurologic and cognitive deterioration as well. This brings into question whether a psychiatric disorder alone could fully account for his condition. Any patient today, particularly one from Scotland,…

Old notes: inventing words and bilinguality

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-08-bilingual-babies-language.html

Are two languages at a time too much for the mind? Caregivers and teachers should know that infants growing up bilingual have the learning capacities to make sense of the complexities of two languages just by listening. In a new study, an international team of researchers, including those from Princeton University, report…

Weekend Food: Travel Food: Ristoranti, Roma: Colonna

Siamo andati a una mostra tempo fa a Palazzo delle Esposizioni di Roma, in via Nazionale. Al piano inferiore c’era una mostra sul 20 ° secolo all’avanguardia negli Stati Uniti, (Pollock, Warhol, Lichenstein, ecc.) mentre sul piano superiore un’altra sulla storia / sviluppo della nostra specie. Entrambi erano stimolante anche se la mostra d’arte mancava di fantasia – come al solito in quel museo…

That time of year: vecchi appunti, occhi 5

…l’ulitmo. Come spiegato nel link, si divide amore in genere in tre sistemi con corrisposte sostanze e strade: quello per farti tromba’, quello per scegliere chi tromba’, e quello per farti rimanere con chi hai trombato. Sono collegati tra di loro – formiamo le narrative, vero o false che siano, (la contestualizzazione e d’obbligo.)

3-love_systems of love

Non e completo come descrizione nel…