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spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam (you know, "spam" is a surprisingly difficult word to type correctly. I keep doing the letters in the wonrg order.) spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam (speaking of which, I checked my email just then, and I had 14 new messages in my Inbox, 10 of which were spam/virus things, and 42 messages in the Bulk folder, all spam! I think something has cracked, and now all this stuff is flooding into my email account. No, not my head.) spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam (did you know that "spam" spelt backwards is "maps"? No wonder maps never make any sense. Not only is it spam, it's backwards spam!) spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam (okay, getting bored now. Got to go.)
posted by Vivian at 4:43 pm
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when since do maps not make sense? Oh... when you look at them backwards they're spam = doesn't make sense?
I LIKE MAPS
THIS IS AWESOME::: CATIE - THIS IS FOR YOU :::
Couch potatoes are more creative
10/5/2005
We're smarter and more creative lying down than standing up, says a researcher who believes this helps to explain Archimedes' Eureka moment.
Dr Darren Lipnicki from the school of psychology at the Australian National University (ANU) found that people solve anagrams more quickly when they are on their backs than on their feet.
He says his research, which will be published in the journal Cognitive Brain Research, relates to how neurotransmitters are released.
Lipnicki tested 20 people, who were asked to solve 32 five-letter anagrams, such as 'osien' and 'nodru' while standing and lying down.
"I found anagrams were solved more quickly lying down than standing up," he says.
"[Often] the solution just pops into the mind similar to the 'aha' or 'Eureka' experience associated with large-scale creative breakthroughs.
"In that sense anagrams replicate that experience because it's easier to solve them, or solve them more rapidly, lying down. That suggests that creative thinking might also be facilitated when lying down."
Lipnicki says his finding relates to the difference in brain chemistry, specifically the release of the neurotransmitter noradrenaline, when lying down or standing up.
While noradrenaline is normally associated with cognitive ability and attention, it is also believed to impair creative thinking.
And less is released while lying down.
Archimedes and reclining poets
Lipnicki says there is historical evidence for his finding in the case of the Greek mathematician Archimedes, who worked out while lying in his bath that the amount of water that overflowed his tub was proportional to the amount of his body that was submerged.
The observation became known as Archimedes' principle, or the principle that an object immersed in a fluid experiences a buoyant force equal in magnitude to the force of gravity on the displaced fluid.
Professor of medieval history Donnchadh O'Corrain of University College Cork says medieval Irish poets also composed their complicated court poetry while lying flat on a couch in a darkened room.
And there are descriptions dating back to 1571 of how law students studied by lying on flat straw pallets, he says.
excellent...
I mean, hey! what do you mean "catie, this is for you"?
copying and pasting defeats the whole fun and time-wasting ability of typing "spam" over and over again...hey and who's this anonymous science nerd?
Not me.. but who else has observed Catie's difficulty with verticality? *eyes everyone with suspicion*
feeling very similar about children lately. was looking after a 7 year old on sunday. irritating. and very, very boring. 7 year olds have no conversation skills. but interesting imaginations. Try, if you will, to picture a dog with a lightsaber tail, pterydactyl (now, that has got to be wrong, how do you spell... that word?) wings and a beak with a dog nose at the end. the mind boggles. not a problem, however, for a seven year old.
and why all these slurs? I've had enough, I'm going back to bed.
hey that's cool...how 'bout sticking it in a clear soft gelatin capsule filled with multi-coloured microencapsulated sugar tablets (really big hundreds and thousands)?
By the way, did you know that paint balls are actually soft gelatin capsules? Mmmm...yummy...paint...
Can anyone tell she's doing pharmacy??? :P
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