There are animal-themed invitations, using live puppies and turtles as messengers. There are glow-in-the-dark schemes. One student at Lincoln High School spelled it out in candles: "HC" (homecoming), "yes" and "no." The date blew out her answer (yes).

-From the L.A. Times "A simple 'go to the dance with me?' doesn't cut it anymore."

The study of "emotion" in radically non-Western communities - the kind of places in which anthropologists have traditionally worked - throws light both on the nature and functions of emotion (and of the individual emotions) and on the relations of individuals in those places to the historically transmitted ambient forms that constitute their "culture." As the temptation to put the two key terms ("emotion" and "culture") within quotation marks suggest, both terms are problematic, and we will encounter some of the confusions of Alice's croquet game, with both mallets and balls, not to mention wickets, in eccentric motion.

- from Culture Theory: Essays on Mind, Self and Emotion edited by Richard A. Schweder

www.higherpictures.com/Exhibition.aspx

Zenon Pylyshyn, Cognitive Scientist, who's discovered rotational aspects of memory.

Why is this important? It may be a key to building the first conscious language, which may in-turn unlock the brain's full capabilities.

See: Seeing and Visualizing, It's Not What You Think. Winner, Best ABA Scholarly Book, 2006

Below: Gobors have dual rotational lines, column a are snapshots every 250ms. They illustrate human objectification in motion and space.

Some think 300ms is the human 'shutter' rate.

From The Economist, Hydrogen antimatter now can be stored, observed and then destroyed to examine the remains. The video attached to the article is essential.

It says we're doomed to comprehend even the simplest tools for our advancement. MIT's Evelyn Fox Keller goes after an absurdity in human perception that has far-reaching restrictions for our evolution as a semi-conscious species. A collective whoops that reads: for every one step forwards we go three steps back. Her observations should be simplified and slotted on every news outlet to shift perception. Here's a NYRB review of her book The Mirage of a Space Between Nature and Nurture.

Article from the L.A. Times.