Sentience

People have the right idea when they tell you not to complain about meaningless things… until you realize that the category “meaningless” encompasses a broad range of things. Maybe the Buddhists are right. Pain and pleasure are two sides of the same coin. They are both what make us sick.

fuck. At least Starcraft is still fun.

An old picture of me. Took it when I was a sophomore in high school. I was just learning how to use photoshop.

Kids of the Black Hole

(Source: akidnamedapex)

My friend Stephan. He plays guitar and sings. He is a cool guy, and he is very talented.

I had to move up to a stronger medication in order to treat the remaining amount of infection I have. My infection is about 80% gone now… but it is incredibly stubborn, and has already become resistant to two forms of antibiotics. I was told it would take 2-3 weeks to disappear completely. Hopefully these pills will kill it completely. I’ll attach a photo too… It’s way better now though, and is hardly noticeable. 

bellatrixennui:

Society is a hypocritical bitch but don’t ever tell it that.

(Source: mysometime, via ill-bred)

fuckyeahneuroscience:

THE FRACTAL SOLUTION TO THE UNIVERSE: In his second year of neuroscience grad school, Greg Dunn was moonlighting with a different kind of experiment: blowing ink across pieces of paper. The neuron-like pattern it formed was instantly recognizable to him as a neuroscientist. “Ink spreads because it wants to go in the direction of less resistance, and that’s probably also the case of when branches grow or neurons grow,” he says. “The reason the technique works really well is because it’s directly related to how neurons are actually behaving.”

Dunn calls this the “fractal solution to the universe,” which he sees as the “fundamental beauty of nature.” He’s fascinated that this branching pattern holds true across orders of magnitude, whether that’s nanometers for neurons, centimeters for ink, or meters for a tree branch.

Since graduating with his PhD last fall, Dunn has continued to spend his days with neurons—big, golden ones ten thousand times the size of neurons in your brain. The former University of Pennsylvania grad student now creates paintings of neurons for a living.

(via Ink Wants to Form Neurons, and an Artful Scientist Obliges | Mind & Brain | DISCOVER Magazine, submitted by flamshiz, thanks!)