Chopstork http://www.chopstork.com/blog Coming soon to a restaurant near you. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:55:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 en Traffic jam wave http://www.chopstork.com/blog/2008/04/14/traffic-jam-wave/ http://www.chopstork.com/blog/2008/04/14/traffic-jam-wave/#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:44:54 +0000 some dude interw3b videos on life http://www.chopstork.com/blog/2008/04/14/traffic-jam-wave/ Japanese scientists recreated the wave effect of cars slowing down and creating traffic. Next time you’re slamming on the breaks for no apparent reason, it could be because some idiot 5 miles ahead of you cut someone off 15 minutes ago. Now instead of getting extra pissed that there’s no accident, you can say to yourself with satisfaction and appreciation, “ah, the Japanese donut ripple effect.”

 ]]> http://www.chopstork.com/blog/2008/04/14/traffic-jam-wave/feed/ Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor on her own stroke http://www.chopstork.com/blog/2008/04/03/neuroanatomist-jill-bolte-taylor-on-her-own-stroke/ http://www.chopstork.com/blog/2008/04/03/neuroanatomist-jill-bolte-taylor-on-her-own-stroke/#comments Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:05:05 +0000 some dude interw3b videos on life http://www.chopstork.com/blog/2008/04/03/neuroanatomist-jill-bolte-taylor-on-her-own-stroke/ From TED Talks…

And I lost my balance and I’m propped up against the wall. And I look down at my arm and I realize that I can no longer define the boundaries of my body. I can’t define where I begin and where I end.

Then all of a sudden my left hemisphere comes back online and it says to me, “Hey! we got a problem, we got a problem, we gotta get some help.” So it’s like, OK, OK, I got a problem, but then I immediately drifted right back out into the consciousness, and I affectionately referred to this space as La La Land. But it was beautiful there. Imagine what it would be like to be totally disconnected from your brain chatter that connects you to the external world.


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