February 2012
“In general, females were buried with a wider variety and larger quantity of...”
– Description of the Sarmatian burial mounds at Pokrovka, excavated by Russian and American archaeologists in 1992-95 (via coolchicksfromhistory
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Deep Sea Diving, Magnetic Fields
grazie a orto...
January 2012
è morta la buonissima gatta. L’aveva portata un muratore tredici anni prima, nuova e garantita come gatto. C’era la guerra e scendeva nei rifugi con i grandi. Aveva molti nomi, ogni anno uno nuovo: Genoviefa come la sorella di De Sanctis, Ciandramisa perché il suo famoso pelo soriano color nuvola quando si sedeva in una angolo buio era tutto chiaro come la luna, che in sanscrito si dice ciandra (e...
operant conditioning chamber
theanatomyofmelancholy:
Behaviorist psychologist B.F. Skinner was born March 20, 1904. He studied conditioning, including superstition in pigeons, and believed in experimental analysis. He also employed creative use of operant conditioning chambers, otherwise known as Skinner boxes. I don’t know about you, but that term makes me want to stay home all day and make dioramas.
jessb:
We attract and distract.
jessb:
A list of favorite maelstroms: Moskstraume, Corryvreckan, Old Sow. And how wikipedia will destroy my life.
