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last spring my friend James Potter made a behavioral model of ant colonies based on spiking neural networks. he was invited to Hungary for research and given a presentation slot in a cognitive science lecture about swarming.
the other week my friend Parker visited and was telling me about how bird's flight patterns and chaotic self-organization can be simulated based on a similar model involving random movement between minimum and maximum distances the birds can be apart from one another.
I am living with James and Parker in the spring and we are going to create something cool about birds, damnit.
the truly sick picture of birds is here though -
the sign above it read: the water in this drinking fountain is perfectly clean and the toilet has never been used. So why do people often hesitate before taking a drink? Strong emotional association with objects or people make it difficult to act rationally around them. I couldn't bring myself to drink from this fountain.
Seen at the SF Exploratorium.
FORT BRAGG, N.C. – Soldiers and family members of the Fort Bragg community will soon have access to a new $14.7 million Behavioral Health Clinic, scheduled for completion by the end of 2012 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District and prime contractor Hensel Phelps. The 63,500-square-foot facility has a walking trail and extensive garden areas, including an on-grade healing garden for individual patient relaxation. One side of the building is constructed of transparent and frosted glass, which will provide views of the garden and existing wetlands from the patient waiting rooms. The facility will provide behavioral health and social work/family advocacy services in support of Soldiers, family members, and the Fort Bragg community. USACE photo by Tracy Robillard.
Pictured: Fort Bragg Project Manager Forward Helane Church (left) and Corps Project Engineer Eman Sundquist (right).
Yep, my autistic son has a hard time with boundaries and gauging what is and is not appropriate behavior. I have a feeling it's only going to get worse as he gets older.
The little Screech owls remain a fav among the many photographers who come out to see them nightly. You just can't get enough of this cuteness
I observed the strangest behavior I've ever had the privilege of witnessing. I spotted a Great Blue Heron motionless waiting for fish. I noticed something on its back and realized a Red-wing Blackbird was sitting on him. The Blackbird then began frenzied pecking at the heron's back. Nonplussed the heron never moved. The Blackbird then began flying up and landing on the Heron repeatedly. I estimate about a dozen times. The Heron eventually caught a fish which it ate. Then it started to stalk about with the Blackbird on its back. The strangest and most amazing interaction I have ever seen.
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"Today, I'm a tiger". Child playing make-believe. Extras from child behavioral series (see below).
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The spiketail dragonflies (cordulegastridae) are named for the prominent ovipositor of the females which they use to deposit eggs in streambanks with what has been described as a sewing-machine like motion. In this video, just to the left of the red flag is a female spiketail— most likely an arrowhead spiketail based on the fact that I know them to be in this general area— ovipositing in the stream bank. This was something I wanted to see and video and was blessed to have this impromptu opportunity while volunteering for a Riverwatch Macroinvertebrate Survey.
Note: This description contains mild swearing.
She found some (literal) shit she just HAD to roll around in. Notice the yellowish green smear all over her back. Just to try and identify what it was I gave her a sniff, wish I hadn't. There was no way I was letting her in the house without giving her a bath. After a few rounds of telling her how STINKY she was I put the leash on her and tied her to the trailer hitch. Then I got a small bucket with soapy water, a scrub brush, and a large bucket of hot water to rinse her and started scrubbing her down, all the while telling her she was STINKY. When she was dry enough I let her back in and her owner told her, "There, that'll teach ya".
SO you see Flickr Fellowes ... I stand before you (metaphorically speaking) presenting the evidence of scurrilous behavior on the part of our feathery flying friends. By viewing this evidence, you are all witnesses and have thus now become Judge and Jury in the case of "IrishMom" vs "The Morning Marauders: Screen Dissemblers II".
The vandalism is clearly presented and duly noted. Exhibit "A" shows the total disregard for nylon screens, dust protection, and "bee" keeper outers". In pursuit of said thieves pilfered fibers they show total disregard for private property in gathering in plastic "lumber" with which
to build their arboreal homes/nests!
And although I had hours of mirth watching their shredding party ... I feel I must now reprimand these culprits by placing a scary object in the window so their stealthy days come to an end. It was fun ... but the case is now closed. Go about your businesses and pray for their teeny tiny souls that the next house they dig into is as nature friendly and benevolent as I am! That's my closing statement. Court Adjourned! The Verdict is obvious!. Tweet!
Vintage Salt & Pepper Shakers. I find these hilarious... sorry to anyone who is easily offended! I think these men might be related, due to their ridiculous sense of appropriate behavior with their girlfriends. The man on the left has his hand up her skirt - and the man on the right has completely removed her boob! It's okay, though... she got even and socked him with her rolling pin!
So, I rarely experience Mean Mom Syndrome- I think because we were lucky enough to have Josie at home for the first two years of her life, and her motor delays caused a self-imposed limit on mingling. And, I suspect other moms don't snark at me as much because I am a physician so "know" what I am doing (not that I do, mind you- they just think I do because of my profession.)
Anyway, Josie is now in daycare two days a week- for her socialization and because Tim's schedule has become more and more hectic. This Halloween I had a terrible awful Mom Moment when Josie came home from school with several bags of treats from other kids. What??? I had no idea that this was expected. Worse, the bags were all thoughtful and healthy treats. I felt very VERY bad that I had not sent in anything with Josie, even though she received about 4 bags from a class of 12 kids. I was still threatened by the thougthful, healthy "good" moms who (in my mind) made me look like a sub-par mom. So you better believe this week, Josie is bringing in small gift bags for her class and her teachers, as well as the teachers from her Toddler Room who were so sweet they literally cried when Josie graduated to the Two Room (which was just in the past few weeks because of her motor delays).
I may or may not have been muttering "suck it, Robert's mom" as I assembled these bags of organic snacks and matchbox cars. I'm sure Robert's mom is just a nice, thoughtful person and wasn't judging Josie's mom for not giving her son play-doh for Halloween, but I don't care. When did I turn into THAT mom? Next thing you know they'll be making Lifetime movies about me.
A prescribed fire burns in a wire grass pine mix at Mississippi Sandhill Crane NWR in January of 2004
Conducta (2014) Just two weeks after its premier, the cuban film Conducta, has filled cuban movie theatres. Written and Directed by Ernesto Daranas (“Los Dioses Rotos”, 2009), the movie tells the story of “Chala”, a 12 year old social outcast from La Habana, and his relationship with Carmela, his veteran sixth grade teacher.
Having a promiscuous, drogadict mom, not knowing who his dad was, and living in a ramshackle house, Chala spent his days at school and his afternoons training fight dogs (an illegal activity in Cuba) in order to make a living for him and his mother. The movie that is attracting thousands of viewers to the theatres is already considered the biggest audiovisual event of the year.
Food as "An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything" so claims Geneen Roth, author and food abuse coach. This was enough encouragement for me to write the food part of my recent essay "Food Frugality and Freedom" since I felt that I was the last person who should write about food. But she does say that one's attitude to eating is a microcosm of one's approach to life so I was intrigued enough to write about food to see how that reflected my approach to life.
Using anecdotes from her retreats and her own journey trying to control her weight (and therefore her body image), Geneen talks about her approach to food and how if food is a problem it can also be a doorway to self knowledge, which is in turn a spiritual path. She is known for telling her students to forget about dieting and just eat what they want. Her point is once people realize why they are overeating they can then consider how such eating, as an escape from problems for instance, just creates another problem and why do that. Why spend a minute being worse off and feeling uncomfortable?
Some insights were helpful. Geneen talks about how compulsive behavior is a response to the past and that developing awareness is the key to moving towards the present.
"The moment you distinguish between acting out the impulse to move away from one present moment by starving or stuffing and the awareness of the impulse to move away you are no longer captive to your past. Awareness and compulsion cannot exist since the latter depends on obliteration of the former."
She divides her people into two groups—the Permitters and the Restrictors (but if this is not helpful leave it, she says). The Permitters drown their sorrows and anxieties with food because it is a comfort that can be counted on. The Restrictors see food as a temptation to loosing control and one's sense of self, so become anxious when tempted by food.
Much of the book showed me how much noise there is within people's head. She teaches her students to put The Voice in it's place. That inner editor, the inner mother. Then theres the rebellious reaction to the Voice that argues against reality. She points out that arguing against reality is not wanting to live the life you have. Such insights of self-discovery kept me reading to the end.
This book happened to be available to me because Catherine had just finished reading it and seemed much taken by it especially because the author has been through the Diamond Approach course that Catherine is involved in (also known as the Diamond Heart teachings). This is an inquiry practice that is rooted in becoming aware of sensations in the body and how the body reacts to questions about oneself. Catherine says that this practice has been more affective at metabolizing feelings from the past and allowing her to move forward than talk therapy, consultations with psychics, or what have you. I have never tried it. I prefer to narrate my journey and present what it is that I discover as I go along. This is called storytelling and is to be avoided in inquiry practice.
Geneen's book taught me at least as much, if not more about compulsive behavior, than the books I was required to read on compulsive hoarding. And for a while I was looking for a bridge that would connect her teachings about food to my work with hoarding clients, but there was no easy correlation because it is much harder to translate "eat when you are hungry" to compulsive saving. I could try to tell a hoarder to just keep what they need, but it is not quite as simple as paying attention to what you can put in your body. You still have to define what it is that determines need and how that fits in with what can reasonably be expected of the future. But it's true most hoarders create a future that is based on past experience. So there is more to explore here.