On the principle of life

“Evidence of water has been detected for the first time in a planet outside our solar system, an astronomer said on Tuesday, a tantalizing find for scientists eager to know whether life exists beyond Earth.” Will Dunham, Reuters, April 10th.

Communicating affect

“Above all, the cognitive system is infinitely more diverse and flexible that the affective system … But there are only a handful of emotions and feelings that can be felt, and they can be felt only in some few, very constrained ways … affect can be communicated much more efficiently and accurately than thought in spite of the fact its vocabulary is quite limited.” Zajonc, R.B. Feelings and Thinking: Preferences need no inferences, American Psychologist, 35, pp. 151-175. 1980.

Language lakes

“This article attempts to sketch out a view of language as a relational–linguistic spiral by discussing some implications of the thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein for language in general. Language is cast as a spiral which revolves around a center of 'human relationality' that anchors all our speech and concepts but which revolves in an ever–widening way into an arena of meaning we call language. Language creates linguistic space for experience and invites one into these new experiences. The borders of our language are thus not the absolute limits of our world but the admitted limits of our experience …” Timothy J Crutcher (2002) 
The Relational-Linguistic Spiral: A Model of Language for Theology 
The Heythrop Journal 43 (4), 463–479.

Man in love

Love is seen here as a particular explosively trending emotion leading to a variety of textures, and a mixture of shadows, lights and forms. The gender type flourishes from the black shoulder and the pink hart.

Brain shadows

Green and red matter mixture in the hart of the brain, upon which hidden human behavioral developments intrinsically vertebrate. The shadows are explicit forms of the unknown, and reflect the efforts scientists put on trying to draw the specific boundaries of all human tendencies.

The row model

The model is a source of inspiration. The row model is the basic model; moderns need models, and can be found everywhere. What is the model of every day life? The patterns could be pictured by finding out the most basic lines, upon which blocks of behavior are built.

Rothko green tendency

“A painting by artist Mark Rothko broke the record for postwar art by more than a little at an auction at Sotheby's in New York when it sold for $72.8 million dollars on Tuesday. Although "White Center (Yellow, Pink, and Lavender on Rose)," was expected to go for high dollars (presale estimates had put it around $40 million), the over-the-top boost can most likely be attributed to the big name of owner and seller David Rockefeller Sr. -- who says he plans to donate the proceeds of the sale to charity.” Rigel Gregg, Luxist, May 18th.

Broad conditionals

“A comparative model fitting exercise is presented that shows that a conditional probability model can explain as much of the data on abstract indicative conditional reasoning tasks as psychological theories that supplement material implication with various rationally unjustified processing assumptions. Consequently, when people are asked to solve laboratory reasoning tasks, they can be seen as simply generalising their everyday probabilistic reasoning strategies to this novel context.” Mike Oaksford, Nick Chater (2003) 
Conditional Probability and the Cognitive Science of Conditional Reasoning 
Mind & Language 18 (4), 359–379.

Sexual identity

“Animal germ cells differentiate as sperm or eggs, depending on their sex. Somatic signals tell germ cells whether they reside in a male or female body, but how do germ cells interpret those external cues to acquire their own sexual identity? A critical aspect of a germ cell's sexual puzzle is that the sperm/egg decision is closely linked to the cell-cycle decision between mitosis and meiosis.” Judith Kimble, J. and Page, D. The Mysteries of Sexual Identity: The Germ Cell's Perspective, Science 20 April 2007, V. 216, no. 5823, p. 351.

Resignation

“… turnover as measured by intentions to resign, and its relationship with multiple commitments in the organization, is the focus of this study. The first objective was to compare the impact of four constituent-specific commitments (commitment to the organization, job, profession and supervisor), termed 'employee commitment', on intentions to resign … The empirical results show that the impact of commitment to the profession on intentions to resign is the most influential …” Boshoff, C. and G. Mels (2000) 
The Impact of Multiple Commitments on Intentions to Resign: an Empirical Assessment 
British Journal of Management 11 (3), 255–272.

Facing teh peak

“The world's production of oil will peak, everyone agrees. Sometime in the coming decades, the amazing machinery of oil production that doubled world oil output every decade for a century will sputter. Output will stop rising, even as demand continues to grow. The question is when.” Kerr, R. Science 20 April 2007:
Vol. 316. no. 5823, p. 351
DOI: 10.1126/science.316.5823.351.

The world of Teresa

The intuitive vision preceding the accomplishment of the innovative fact is essentially projected within the dynamic and calculated excitement of human mind. Beauty lies in the deep hart and in the pleasure of shared achievement.

On the social structure of war

“A new program at the U.S. Department of Defense would support research on how local populations behave in a war zone … The approach represents a broader and more scientific way to achieve military objectives than by using force alone, according to Young. "The military is used to thinking about bombs, aircraft, and guns," he says. "This is about creating a population environment where people feel that they have a voice and opportunity." … Once developed in academic labs, the software would be installed in command and control systems.” Science 27 April 2007:
Vol. 316. no. 5824, pp. 534 – 535. CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH: Pentagon Asks Academics for Help in Understanding Its Enemies, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee.

Pole adventure

“Yesterday’s report on global warming from the world’s most authoritative voice on climate change asserts that significant progress toward stabilizing and reducing global warming emissions can be achieved at a relatively low cost using known technologies. This is a hugely important message to policy makers everywhere, not least those in the United States Congress. Many of them have been paralyzed by fears — assiduously cultivated by the Bush administration — that a full-scale attack on climate change could cripple the economy.” The New York Times, May 5th.

Procastination

“Procrastination is a prevalent and pernicious form of self-regulatory failure that is not entirely understood … Strong and consistent predictors of procrastination were task aversiveness, task delay, self-efficacy, and impulsiveness, as well as conscientiousness and its facets of self-control, distractibility, organization, and achievement motivation. These effects prove consistent with temporal motivation theory, an integrative hybrid of expectancy theory and hyperbolic discounting.”
Steel, P. The Nature of Procrastination: A Meta-Analytic and Theoretical Review of Quintessential Self-Regulatory Failure. Psychological Bulletin. 2007 Jan Vol 133(1) 65-94.

Over-optimism trap

“People are often presumed to be vulnerable to a desirability bias, namely, a tendency to be overoptimistic about a future outcome as a result of their preferences or desires for that outcome. In this article, this form of wishful thinking is distinguished from the more general concepts of motivated reasoning and overoptimism, and the evidence for this bias is reviewed … The potential for desires to depress rather than enhance optimism is discussed …” Krizan, Z. and Windschitl, P. D. The Influence of Outcome Desirability on Optimism, Psychological Bulletin. 2007 Jan Vol 133(1) 95-12.