Category: Dawkins

02/12/2012 Art Philip Ross | arts | human-rights | Philips Ross Feitosa-Santana

Prison Outside Prison

It is all about prisoners. Specifically, it is about juvenile prisoners. The picture below shows us an expression that is obviously not exclusively present inside bars. Outside bars is almost the same… Just look around and you will see most of people locked up inside their blindness. Photography by Richard Ross.

10/08/2012 Consciousness Shift in the Olympic Games Feitosa-Santana

You don’t need to be in the Podium to make an Impact…

“You don’t need to be in the Podium to make an Impact” (NBC Chicago, August 9 2012).  On the other hand, being in the Podium reaches the world’s attention to the horrors of the Chinese backstage (see below). It is maybe a consciousness shift for the Olympic athletes…

31/07/2012 Audrey Heller | Color Constancy | constancies | Constancy | science | Shape Constancy | Size Constancy | visual angle Feitosa-Santana

Perceptual Constancy and Audrey Heller’s Photography

Perceptual constancy is an important aspect of our interaction with the world. The size constancy is the easiest one to understand. For example, two telephone poles look the same size when the first is viewed from 100 meters and when the second is viewed from 1 meter, even though the visual angle is very different. A […]

29/07/2012 brain state and mental state | ciencia para leigos | Cinema | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | hollywood | Localized and Distributed Brain Activity | mind and brain | science | science for lay people | Would you Erase me? Feitosa-Santana

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Would you erase me from your life and memory? The movie “Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind” underlies the scientific discussion about whether our mind is governed by localized or distributed activity in the brain. Is the neural orchestra of our mental functions localized or distributed throughout the brain? The movie starts with the localized […]