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culturenlifestyle:

These alarming and quirky yearbook quotes are found inside Spokane High’s Class of 19111, which include some pretty bizarre ambitions. Some of them include “ambitions” of murdering the faculty and marrying a dwarf. Take a look at their perplexing words below.

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this is wonderful but i urge everybody to check out the original for more gems such as

I’m Elizabeth Braun

neurosciencestuff:

Training the brain to treat itself is a promising therapy for
traumatic stress. The training uses an auditory or visual signal that
corresponds to the activity of a particular brain region, called
neurofeedback, which can guide people to regulate their own brain
activity.

However, treating stress-related disorders requires
accessing the brain’s emotional hub, the amygdala, which is located deep
in the brain and difficult to reach with typical neurofeedback methods.
This type of activity has typically only been measured using functional
magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which is costly and poorly
accessible, limiting its clinical use.

A study published in the current issue of Biological Psychiatry
tested a new imaging method that provided reliable neurofeedback on the
level of amygdala activity using electroencephalography (EEG), and
allowed people to alter their own emotional responses through
self-regulation of its activity.

“The major advancement of this
new tool is the ability to use a low-cost and accessible imaging method
such as EEG to depict deeply located brain activity,” said both senior
author Dr. Talma Hendler of Tel-Aviv University in Israel and The Sagol
Brain Center at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, and first author
Jackob Keynan, a PhD student in Hendler’s laboratory, in an email to Biological Psychiatry.

The
researchers built upon a new imaging tool they had developed in a
previous study that uses EEG to measure changes in amygdala activity,
indicated by its “electrical fingerprint”. With the new tool, 42
participants were trained to reduce an auditory feedback corresponding
to their amygdala activity using any mental strategies they found
effective.

During this neurofeedback task, the participants
learned to modulate their own amygdala electrical activity. This also
led to improved downregulation of blood-oxygen level dependent signals
of the amygdala, an indicator of regional activation measured with fMRI.

In
another experiment with 40 participants, the researchers showed that
learning to downregulate amygdala activity could actually improve
behavioral emotion regulation. They showed this using a behavioral task
invoking emotional processing in the amygdala. The findings show that
with this new imaging tool, people can modify both the neural processes
and behavioral manifestations of their emotions.

“We have long
known that there might be ways to tune down the amygdala through
biofeedback, meditation, or even the effects of placebos,” said John
Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry. “It is an exciting
idea that perhaps direct feedback on the level of activity of the
amygdala can be used to help people gain control of their emotional
responses.”

The participants in the study were healthy, so the
tool still needs to be tested in the context of real-life trauma.
However, according to the authors, this new method has huge clinical
implications.

The approach “holds the promise of reaching anyone
anywhere,” said Hendler and Keynan. The mobility and low cost of EEG
contribute to its potential for a home-stationed bedside treatment for
recent trauma patients or for stress resilience training for people
prone to trauma.

eveningstarwoman:

it’s kinda crazy i haven’t seen ppl bring it up in the noDAPL discourse, but like…i feel like ppl don’t realize, aside from the fact that tribes have treaty rights and sovereign rights and human rights that all require access to clean drinking water and the ability to act as caretakers of their lands….tribes are an additional 5 rungs up the morals ladder or whatever bc they ROUTINELY request permissions/assistance in investing in renewable energy and are ROUTINELY passed over. 

example: in northern Montana, the wind blows really hard pretty much every day. like, it blows so hard that it can blow empty boxcars off the train tracks. so some ppl thought it would be good to build wind turbines out there. the Blackfeet tribe was like, hey yeah we wanna have wind turbines on our rez, we have high winds and wanna invest in cleaner and more affordable energy. then they got passed over and the wind turbines were built just outside the reservation boundaries, in a white border town. 

another example: the Northern Cheyenne tribe DID actually build wind turbines, which is awesome. they have also fought really hard to have pristine air quality. but nearby coal mining has totally fucked over the surrounding area (which are Cheyenne treaty lands), and some towns on the rez still don’t have clean drinking water (they have to haul it from springs bc the tap water comes out orange and is undrinkable). as recently as earlier this year, there were still applications in for expansion of coal mining in the area (despite YEARS of consistent protest from the tribe), including on a sacred site. 

tribes work really hard to invest in clean energy, and to take care of their homelands, despite continued disrespect and desecration of their lands by others. another example is the MULTIPLE tribal colleges that have invested in clean energy, like solar panels (including the Blackfeet tribe’s college). 

so yes, we have EVERY RIGHT to say no to dirty energy on our lands

nasa:

An astronaut. 

A pilot. 

A husband. 

A father. 

A United States Senator.

An American hero. 

An original.

John Glenn (1921-2016) was all those things and more. When he rocketed into space on Feb. 20, 1962, to become the first American to orbit Earth, the flight set the nation on course to meet ever-more ambitious goals.

The life and career of Senator Glenn eclipses those of many. In spite of his accomplishments, he was a humble and gracious man (and 4-term U.S. senator).

During Glenn’s first flight, a scheduled 30-minute test to determine whether Glenn could fly the
capsule manually became a matter of life and death when the automatic
system malfunctioned after the first orbit.

“I went to manual control and continued in that mode during the second
and third orbits, and during re-entry,” Glenn recalled later. 

“The malfunction just forced me to prove very rapidly what had been planned over a longer period of time.”

Another problem seemed even more serious – telemetry indicated the
spacecraft’s heat shield was loose. It seemed possible that Glenn and
the spacecraft would be incinerated on re-entry. 

Glenn left the retrorocket pack in place to steady the heat shield
during re-entry. “It made for a very spectacular re-entry from where I
was sitting,” he said. Big chunks of the burning material came flying by
the window.

He wasn’t sure whether the flaming debris was the rocket pack or the
heat shield breaking up. “Fortunately,” he told an interviewer,“ it was
the rocket pack – or I wouldn’t be answering these questions.”

In the words of President Obama, who awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012: “When John Glenn blasted off
from Cape Canaveral atop an Atlas rocket in 1962, he lifted the hopes of a
nation. And when his Friendship 7 spacecraft splashed down a few hours
later, the first American to orbit the Earth reminded us that with courage and
a spirit of discovery there’s no limit to the heights we can reach
together. With John’s passing, our nation has lost an icon and Michelle
and I have lost a friend. John spent his life breaking barriers, from
defending our freedom as a decorated Marine Corps fighter pilot in World War II
and Korea, to setting a transcontinental speed record …

The last of America’s first
astronauts has left us, but propelled by their example we know that our future
here on Earth compels us to keep reaching for the heavens.  On behalf of a
grateful nation, Godspeed, John Glenn.”

Glenn left the Astronaut Corps in 1964 and resigned from the Marine Corps in 1965. And, after some time in private industry ran for and was elected ti the U.S. Senate in 1974, carrying all 88 counties of Ohio. He was
re-elected in 1980 with the largest margin in Ohio history. Ohio returned him to the Senate for a third term in 1986. In 1992 he was elected again, becoming the first
popularly elected senator from his state to win four consecutive terms.

During his last term he was the ranking member of both the Governmental
Affairs Committee and the Subcommittee on Air/Land Forces in the Senate
Armed Services Committee. He also served on the Select Committee on
Intelligence and the Special Committee on Aging. He was considered one of the Senate’s leading experts on technical and
scientific matters, and won wide respect for his work to prevent the
spread of weapons of mass destruction.

In 1998, Glenn flew on the STS-95 Discovery shuttle flight, a 9-day
mission during which the crew supported a variety of research payloads
including deployment of the Spartan solar-observing spacecraft, the
Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems Test Platform, and Glenn’s
investigations on space flight and the aging process.

NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden remembers, “Senator
Glenn’s legacy is one of risk and accomplishment, of history created and duty
to country carried out under great pressure with the whole world watching.”

Today, we honor him for all that he stood for and continues to stand for – grace under pressure, humility, ability, strength. 

Godspeed, John Glenn.

muchymozzarella:

I’m living in this horrible dystopian world where the evening news reports 5 incidents of murder in a row with 12 victims, half of whom were killed by police in “drug related incidents” and the other half grandmas or mothers or random citizens who who were shot while accompanying their kids who, for all intents and purposes, were beloved neighbours

Happy New Year Philippines

Why is this happening to my country and why does nobody on this useless site care

My Ravenclaw post can get 50000+ notes but my post asking people to care about people on the street being murdered by the dozen every week in my country gets two likes and no reblogs

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