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Sensory overload in Gundam Battle Universe TV spot (PSP Fanboy)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:19:51 GMT

Filed under: Gundam More mechs from Gundam Battle Universe have been revealed in scans from Weekly Famitsu. Check out the full scans over at PSPHyper . There is even a short TV commericial of the game here from the Japanese Playstation Movie Channel. Definitely some sensory overload here -- we counted 22 screenshots in a single frame! Gundam fans should look for this game July 17th in Japan...

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running away with mae (damien is listening to...)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:00:00 GMT

presenting Mae , short for the sexy-sounding Multi-sensory Aesthetic Experience . in reality, Mae's music is about as far from sexy as you can get - but that doesn't mean it's bad by any means. two of the band members are originally from Norfolk, Virginia whilst one of them hits the country's shores all the way from Dublin, Ireland. the guys have toured the States a bunch of times including...

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Amora: The Academy of Sex and Relationships in London (Lingerie Planet)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:00:39 GMT

Going to London anytime soon? Don't miss to visit AMORA! Amora – The Academy of Sex & Relationships, the world’s FIRST visitor attraction dedicated to love, sex and relationships, is quite literally the hottest ticket in town. A unique and powerful sensory experience, Amora fuses entertainment, excitement and education with seven interactive zones covering every aspect of relationships from...

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Biological Ironies (The Scientific Indian)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:34:18 GMT

I was watching David Byrne + Daniel Levitin at The Seed Salon yesterday evening and heard Daniel Levitin (the professor dude) talk about how ironic that the brain, which receives sensory inputs from all over the body, does not itself have sensory nerves. He further added helpfully that you would not know if your brain is poked. It's a nice bit of detail to draw a non-biologist into conversations...

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Children's Book Review - Tiny Tadpole (A Book Blogger's Diary)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:36:00 GMT

Tiny Tadpole Author: Judith Nicholls Reading level: Baby-Preschool Board book: 12 pages Publisher: Scholastic Review With rhymes, colorful graphics that have embedded sensory textures, this... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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A Thought on Distinguishing Pure from Empirical Notions (Brood Philosophy)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:58:20 GMT

In the past posts I described a Matrix (person in a vat) scenario with a twist. Neo’s body which is identical with my body is put in a vat. His sensory organs are connected to random generators. By pure chance it happens so that Neo’s sensory organs are affected in exactly the same way as my [...]

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Webcast of Entire Neural Interface Conference in June (Brain Waves)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:14:23 GMT

If you missed the 38th Neural Interface Conference in Ohio last month, you can see all the presentations via webcast here . The general structure of the conference focuses on the DBS for day one; day two focuses on neural prostheses for restoration of motor and sensory function; and day three describes advances in cochlear prostheses and therapeutic effects of stimulation.

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Mal Label Music showcases Top Emerging New Artists in Bay Area Glitch, Grime, and Dubstep August 1st, 2008 (PR Leap - Recent News Releases)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT

Mal Label Music produces monthly live music events that create an environment of sensory overload for the concert attendee by booking the best in electronic djs and live-tronic artists, dancers, video artists, lighting experts and set designers. All of whom are dedicated to providing a sense of spectacle as well as other-worldly environments.

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Why I cracked my husband's ribs (IOL)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:56:29 GMT

Noor-Jehan Yoro Badat speaks to a woman who suffers, along with her son, from an unusual and sometimes embarrassing sensory disorder.

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MicroRNAs expressed by herpes simplex virus 1 during latent infection regulate viral mRNAs (Nature)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Herpesviruses are characterized by their ability to maintain life-long latent infections in their animal hosts. However, the mechanisms that allow establishment and maintenance of the latent state remain poorly understood. Herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) establishes latency in neurons of sensory ganglia, where the only abundant viral gene product is a non-coding RNA, the latency associated transcript...

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Pods Designed for Napping - The COCON at the Kiétud’ Spa (VIDEO) (TREND HUNTER Magazine)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:47:08 GMT

(TrendHunter.com) In France, the Kiétud’ Spa is equipped with high-tech facilities such as the caissons sensory isolation COCON. This hospitality center advocates the appeasement of body and mind and encourages customers…

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"One For The Fathers" by Christoper Watkins (LENNDEVOURS)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:11:02 GMT

A pregnant woman, denied her wine, augmented now by spider sense— So cruel, and so unjust; hers the most astute of palates, keenest sensory intensity, yet no wine will be passing through her sober suffering lips; the contemporary standards say...

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Eewwwww! (View From The Porch)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:46:00 GMT

So, the banner ad in the sidebar at SiteMeter says " Unlock Worlds Of Sensory Delight ". It's an ad for Friskies brand cat food. If the purpose of an ad is to stick in your noggin, then this one is working like all heck for me. Prob'ly for the wrong reasons, though...

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Yonah 2.0 (treppenwitz)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:52:34 GMT

Many of you who are regular readers are familiar with the story of our four-and-half-year-old (tfu tfu tfu) son Yonah. He has had to deal with some sensory 'issues' and has been undergoing intensive work with a range of therapists...

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Neuronal correlates of the set-size effect in monkey lateral intraparietal area (Physorg)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:00:51 GMT

It is well known that the brain is limited in the amount of sensory information it can process at any given time. During an everyday task such as finding an object in a cluttered environment (known as visual search), observers take longer to find a target as the number of distractors increases.

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More Sensory Overload at Yellowstone (Travelblog)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:55:50 GMT

Kerry forgot to set the refrigerator on low last night so this morning his lemons were frozen and the milk for our cereal came out in chunks. Within 14 mile of the main intersection from Canyon Village we saw another gray wolf. Down the road near Virginia Cascades Road a bison was calmly grazing along the side of the road. We saw more bison along Virginia Cascades Road. As we neared Mamm

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John Buechsenstein: Sauvignon Blanc Specialist (Avenue Vine)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:16:35 GMT

Sauvignon Republic produces wines made with the white grape from the Russian River, New Zealand, South Africa and Mendocino--more on the way! As John stands before his Sensory Evaluation of Wine class at UC Davis Extension , John Buechsenstein, winemaker, professor and commercial vineyard location scout, sticks his nose into the tilted wine glass and breathes in deeply. Ah, Sauvignon Blanc:...

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Quick Creativity: Music, Improvisation, and the Brain (Eide Neurolearning Blog)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:01:00 GMT

In this interesting paper from the NIH, researchers found that when jazz musicians improvised or made a spontaneously creative musical phrase using a MIDI keyboard, they deactivated large areas of their prefrontal (planning, attention) and limbic (emotions)cortices, and activated their sensory and motor areas. In this paradigm, then, creativity is the result of both negative and positive forces....

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Liberals and guns: hysteria, but not much reasoning (RenewAmerica columns)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:56:42 GMT

(Dennis Campbell) - Hysteria: 1: a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral functions 2: behavior exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear or emotional excess. -- Merriam-Webster...

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Getting Emotional With… Dan Hill (Design - Emotion)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:56:46 GMT

Dan Hill is the driving force behind Sensory Logic. Dan Hill is President of Sensory Logic and a recognized authority on the role of emotions in consumer and employee behavior. Inspired by breakthroughs in brain science and facial coding, which correlates facial expressions to specific emotions, Dan challenges traditional ideas of understanding and measuring people’s decision-making [...]...

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