Marquicey - The Way You Are

Did you know that Salvador Dalí created/illustrated a cookbook?! Titled,  Les Diners de Gala (1973), the book is divided into 12 chapters filled with recipes incorporating the most fantastic and surreal combinations of ingredients. One of my favorites is the Casanova Cocktail, and Dalí’s recipe for this concoction is as follows:

CASANOVA COCKTAIL The juice of 1 orange
1 tablespoon bitters (Campari)
 1 teaspoon ginger
 4 tablespoons brandy
 2 tablespoons old brandy (Vielle Cure)
 1 pinch Cayenne pepper. This is quite appropriate when circumstances such as exhaustion, overwork or simply excess of sobriety are calling for a pick-me-up. Here is a well-tested recipe to fit the bill. Let us stress another advantage of this particular pep-up concoction is that one doesn’t have to make the sour face that usually accompanies the absorption of a remedy.

At the bottom of a glass, combine pepper and ginger. Pour the bitters on top, then brandy and “Vielle Cure.” Refrigerate or even put in the freezer. Thirty minutes later, remove from the freezer and stir the juice of the orange into the chilled glass. Drink… and wait for the effect. It is rather speedy.”

That looks so pretty

Ok so I just discovered that this exsists! (HoleRoll blackout curtains)

Neuroscience

Brain Opioids Help Us to Relate with Others

Recent results obtained by researchers from Turku PET Centre and Aalto University have revealed how the human brain’s opioid system modulates responses to other people’s pain.

Seeing others experiencing pain activated brain circuits that are known to support actual first-hand experience of pain. The less opioid receptors the participants had in their brain, the stronger were their emotion and pain circuits’ response to seeing others in distress. Similar association was not found for the dopamine system despite its known importance in pain management.

– Capacity for vicarious experiences is a fundamental aspect of human social behaviour. Our results demonstrate the importance of the endogenous opioid system in helping us to relate with others’ feelings. Interindividual differences in the opioid system could explain why some individuals react more strongly than others to someone else’s distress, says Researcher Tomi Karjalainen from Turku PET Centre.

– The results show that first-hand and vicarious pain experiences are supported by the same neurotransmitter system. This finding could explain why seeing others in pain often feels unpleasant. High opioid-receptor availability may, however, protect against excessive distress resulting from negative social signals, such as other people’s distress. Our findings thus suggest that the brain’s opioid system could constitute an important social resiliency factor, tells Professor Lauri Nummenmaa from Turku PET Centre and Department of Psychology at the University of Turku.

The study was conducted by using positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The participants were injected with radioactive compounds that bind to their brain’s opioid and dopamine receptors. Radioactivity in the brain was measured twice with the PET camera to map the distribution of opioid and dopamine receptors. Subsequently, the participants’ brain activity was measured with fMRI while they viewed videos depicting humans in various painful and painless situations.

Anonymouse Are Launching Tiny Shops For Mice In the Streets of Sweden

Unknown initiative called Anonymouse is opening miniature, highly detailed restaurants and food shops all around Malmö, Sweden.

Offering a variety of foods from cheese to nuts, each miniature room is decorated with a vintage flair. The 70×30 cm (about 25×12 inch) stores are also accompanied with posters about upcoming events and mice concerts. Overall, the secretive and impressive street art installations are well thought out and amazingly real. 

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Imagery🔁Sound

Harmonograph, H. Irwine Whitty, 1893

“The facts that musical notes are due to regular air-pulses, and that the pitch of the note depends on the frequency with which these pulses succeed each other, are too well known to require any extended notice. But although these phenomena and their laws have been known for a very long time, Chladni, late in the last century, was the first who discovered that there was a connection between sound and form.”

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Deja vu

We as humans do the same things everyday but something about our feelings and the subtle details make the mundane different

sometimes i wonder how a writer would describe me if i were a character in a book