Mikhail Koptev

Mikhail Koptev

Mikhail Koptev

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8 months ago

Y'all ever just suddenly have the overwhelming urge to swim??? Like not actively but you just wanna,,, be in the water and have some Peace

I wish Americans fucked with more foreign music. You don’t have to know the language to appreciate a good record. Folks in other countries listen to our music and don’t speak a lick of english. Music needs no translator

Diagram showing slime-mold powered heart rate monitor in two states: non-functioning, with the slime dried and dormant due to neglect; versus functioning with a healthy slime mold.
All participants expressed various feelings of connection with our device. P1, P2, P4, and P5 all described it as a little friend and/or pet. P2 expressed, “it’s always good to be accompanied by some living creature, I really like different, animals or plants. (. . .) carrying this little friend also made me feel happy and peaceful”. P4 noted that she would be reminded by the slime mold’s presence by its smell, even stating that it felt endearing, “my cat’s kind of have a smell, dogs have a smell, the physarum, I recognize the smell and it smells kind of, organic, it’s kind of yeasty but not like decaying, it smells alive”. In recalling an experience where she had to take a long drive, P4 explained, “oh, I gotta bring my little pet mold friend, during the drive, I was also thinking about how I used to be really into Tamagotchis (. . .) with the physarum, (. . .) it has this smell to it which your Tamagotchis don’t have, it has a sense of physicality, (. . .) they’re definitely different”. P1 stated that their personal care routine ended up linked to the device’s care routine “I think every time I fed myself is when I would remember to at least check it, I think that was actually quite linked”. While she was sick, P5’s partner helped take care of her as well as helped to take care of her device. P5 recounts, “I was taking care of the slime and feeding it oats and stuff, my partner was also feeding me oatmeal because I was sick and so she was like you’re my little slime and I was like yeah, I am (. . .) then she started calling me her slime because I mean me and the slime, like, we were eating the same stuff, (. . .) we were both being fed and watered”. P2 & P4 also stated that the visual appearance of their device affected their mood. P2 explained that growth made them feel refreshed. P4 associated the bright yellow of the physarum with happy feelings, noting this affective quality several times in her diary entries and in her interview.

researchers built wearable heart rate sensors powered by slime molds that had to be fed like Tamagotchis and literally everyone involved with the study began personifying their little heart rate friends


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Neanderthal Extinction Linked to Genetic Crisis 100,000 Years Ago
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The extinction of the Neanderthals is one of the most intriguing mysteries in paleoanthropology, with researchers speculating everything fro

The extinction of the Neanderthals is one of the most intriguing mysteries in paleoanthropology, with researchers speculating everything from shifts in the climate to war with modern humans may have escalated their demise. Many have wondered if our lost human cousins simply didn't have enough variety to cope with these changes. A new study backs up the hypothesis that a dramatic decline in the diversity of their genes prior to their extinction is likely to have played a major role.

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Knowing Anything About History Is Great Because It Makes You Seem Mentally Insane
Knowing Anything About History Is Great Because It Makes You Seem Mentally Insane
Knowing Anything About History Is Great Because It Makes You Seem Mentally Insane

knowing anything about history is great because it makes you seem mentally insane

I love you people going into "useless" fields I love you classics majors I love you cultural studies majors I love you comparative literature majors I love you film studies majors I love you near eastern religions majors I love you Greek, Latin, and Hebrew majors I love you ethnic studies I love you people going into any and all small field that isn't considered lucrative in our rotting capitalist society please never stop keeping the sacred flame of knowledge for the sake of knowledge and understanding humanity and not merely for the sake of money alive

“When Dante Gabriel Rossetti read the novel Wuthering Heights, he wrote to a friend: “The action takes place in Hell, but the places, I don’t know why, have English names.””

— Jorge Luis Borges, “Julio Cortazar, Stories” from Prologues to a Personal Library.

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a sideblog for everything i love and find interesting: philosophy, literature, cultural anthropology, folk history, folk horror, neuroscience, medicine and medical science, neuropsychology/psychiatry, ethnomusicology, art, literature, academia and so on. i am an amateur in every subject! this is just for my own personal interest in each subject :)

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