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StumbleUpon - Ingas web site reviews and blog: Aug 30, 2006 8:49am 1 review stumblers, perception
http://inga.stumbleupon.com/review/5410030/; Irish Soma in Inga's SU pages via Inga's pages about Irish Soma From the page: "Many scholars believe that the Indo-Europeans used an entheogenic or psychedelic drug in their rituals - called soma amongst the Vedic people of India... I can scarcely believe that I'm the first to consider the question of a soma cult amongst the Celts, those old-fashioned Indo-Europeans so loyal to ancient ways - and so fond of intoxication. An immediate presumption would be that the Celts lost soma, if they ever had it, when they migrated West from the Indo-European heartland; at best, they may have developed mead as a substitute..." And so the author begins his quest for the Celtic soma, making rowan berries and mushrooms his suspects. At the end of the article the researcher asks linguistics and culturologists for collaboration. One can only hope that this call will be heard by really good specialists who don't sacrifice objectivity to cater to falsely patriotic sentiments. Otherwise such revelations as "Homer was a sighted (!) Circassian and not a poet at all (!)" or "Prometheus was an Adyghe chained by Zeus to a rock somewhere near Anapa [Russia]" are inevitable (quoting from a booklet bought by me in Anapa where I vacationed this summer. URL: Inga's SU pages URL: Irish Soma
One of my preferred stumblers. She has always thoughtful posts about subjects of substantial interest.

Our grip on reality is slim | Science Blog: Jun 23, 2006 5:25pm 3 reviews cognitive-science, perception, reality
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/our-grip-on-reality-is-slim-10871.html; Our grip on reality is slim Our grip on what is going on around us is indeed very slim. If it is already difficult for many of us to agree on what we just saw some hours before try, for a second, to imagine the variations, in our understanding of what reality is all about, that we each gained from our past life experiences. The resulting of our perception of reality is indeed a wide variation of interpretations, so wide, that it is as if we were perceiving fundamentally different realities... in ScienceBlog from University College London """ The neurological basis for poor witness statements and hallucinations has been found by scientists at UCL (University College London). In over a fifth of cases, people wrongly remembered whether they actually witnessed an event or just imagined it, according to a paper published in NeuroImage this week. """ URL: Our grip on reality is slim

University of Rochester Press Releases: May 2, 2006 5:43pm 14 reviews cognitive-science, perception, consciousness
http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=2299; Color Perception Is Not in the Eye of the Beholder: It's in the Brain via wwhitlock's SU pages, in University of Rochester News """ First-ever images of living human retinas have yielded a surprise about how we perceive our world. Researchers at the University of Rochester have found that the number of color-sensitive cones in the human retina differs dramatically among people--by up to 40 times--yet people appear to perceive colors the same way. The findings, on the cover of this week's journal Neuroscience, strongly suggest that our perception of color is controlled much more by our brains than by our eyes. """ URL: Color Perception Is Not in the Eye of the Beholder: It's in the Brain Photo credit: University of Rochester

A Force More Powerful: Mar 11, 2006 2:43pm 3 reviews visualization, games, perception
http://www.afmpgame.org/; First and only game to teach the waging of conflict using nonviolent methods
Parents, here is something of interest for your children...
in FutureFeeder by CC Wang:
"""A force more powerfull the first and only game to teach the waging of conflict using nonviolent methods. Destined for use by activists and leaders of nonviolent resistance and opposition movements, the game will also educate the media and general public on the potential of nonviolent action and serve as a simulation tool for academic studies of nonviolent resistance. """
URL: A Force More Powerful