colors of the sun

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facts on our brainz

ABOUT YOUR BRAIN

Inside your head, you possess three pounds of the most complex structure that we know of: your brain. The human brain has evolved over several million years to become the incredibly complex organ that it is in humans today. You might say the brain has come a long way from its hominid ancestors on the African savannas.

Still, we share many brain activities with our distant ancestors -- dreams, memory, sleep and some form of language or communication have long characterized humans and made us individuals. The fight-or-flight response, for example, helped our ancestors defend and survive attacks by predators. Although we don't have to fight predators today, the same response is activated every day in modern humans.

The brain of three million years ago found food, later learned to cook it, eventually learned to farm, make tools, build great cities -- and invent the computer. Over the course of those three million years, both cranial capacity and brain size have expanded. The human brain has become increasingly complex, enabling us to enjoy a high level of problem-solving abilities.

"Pieces of Mind" takes you inside the human brain and shows you what fascinating questions scientists are exploring today about perception, memory, sleep, dreams and language.


ACTIVITY: LEFT AND RIGHT BRAINS

The corpus callosum connects both hemispheres of the brain and enables the left and right sides of the brain to communicate. As you see in this episode of FRONTIERS, when this bridge is disconnected, the person functions quite well but experiences perceptual and cognitive dysfunction. If the corpus callosum is severed, the right hand truly does not know what the left hand is doing.

divided brain graphic

For the vast majority of us, the right hemisphere of the brain controls the left side of the body, and the left hemisphere controls the right side. What your left eye perceives registers in your right brain; what your right eye sees registers in your left brain. The right brain sends messages to the left, and vice versa, via the corpus callosum.

When the corpus callosum is severed, as it is in the patient's brain as seen on FRONTIERS, there is perception but no messages travel back and forth between the brain's two hemispheres. Thus, although both eyes "see" an image, each hand drawing the figure does only what its half of the brain perceives. The left hemisphere, which handles language in most people, does not receive or send messages about what the two halves see.

The brain is, indeed, divided.

Signals from nerves on one side of the body arrive at the brain and cross over to the opposite side via the corpus callosum, which links the left and right hemispheres. The corpus callosum shown here is severed.



LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS

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walkin away

Posted by Sshree at 6:49 PM 0 comments

rainin mad

THE STUPID camcorder pics make my blog look oogly!!...and ye i know.. ive been bloggin nonstop lately... its cos i wont be usin blogger when i go to india.. but i'll try to blog from dere anyway abt my day to day experiences..or maybe pics too infact...IM not goina involve in any matters that involve thinking in this THREE MONTHS..so yesh! I CANT WAIT for da trip.. here are some of the pics of goan resorts..where im goina possibly stay...

bogmalo beach resort

the royal goan beach club monterio

heritage village club goa


I feel terrible leavin u all here wish i cud bring u along :Psorry but i sincerely do mean dat.. wud be more fun'r wit u guys dere still..

Posted by Sshree at 11:30 AM 0 comments

DCR-DVD101
Editors' rating:6.0 Fair
User rating: 81%Thumbs Up 19%Thumbs Down
The good:Mini DVDs offer convenient playback; good night-shooting quality relatively compact.
The bad:Poor video quality; media expensive compared to MiniDV tapes; very basic feature set.
What's it for: Recording video.
Who's it for: DVD-recording fans.
Essential extras: Mini DVD-RW discs.
The bottom line: Unless you're so wedded to the Sony brand and the idea of DVD recording that you're willing to pay a premium--but not enough to jump to the DVD201--

Sony DCR-PC101E
CCD pixel count 1070000
Weight 580 g
Average battery life (with LCD) 60
Captures stills to memory yes
DV In / Out In and Out
Digital zoom 120X
Dimensions (WxDxH) 57 x 118 x 113 mm
Hotshoe yes
LCD size 2.5 in.
Lens Zeiss F/1.8-2.0 Vario Sonnar
Maximum still resolution (pixels) 1152 x 864
Night shot yes
Optical zoom 10X
Other connectors S-Video; composite video; audio; USB
Other features touch-screen supports spot focus and exposure
Removeable media Memory Stick

sony DCR-TRV14E
DV in / out out only
CCD pixel count 800000
Form factor horizontal
Weight 520 g
Number of CCDs 1
Average battery life (with LCD) 90
Captures stills to memory no
Dimensions (WxDxH) 71 x 90 x 112 mm
Hotshoe yes (smartshoe)
LCD size 2.5 in.
Lens Carl Zeiss F1.7
Maximum still resolution (pixels) single PAL frame
Night shot yes (infrared)
Optical zoom 10X
Other connectors composite out, S-Video out, USB 1.1, microphone, headphones, LANC
Other features touch-screen LCD, spot focus/exposure, manual focus
Special effects Exposure presets (beach and ski, portrait, landscape, sunset and moon, sports, spotlight; fades (monochrome, black, bounce, mosaic)
Tape format MiniDV

The TRV14E is an excellent camcorder for the beginner, and certainly worth the extra money that you typically pay for the Sony brand.

Optical image stabilisation -Image stabilisation compensates for slight movements of the hand during shooting. Optical image stabilisation works by using gyros and prisms within the camera to compensate for camera motion. Generally considered superior to digital image stabilisation.
okay so far these look gud to me..but the DCR-DVD101 not so sure..
DCR-TRV14E looks good but den im still goin down to sum stores to check it out and have a look..

Posted by Sshree at 10:09 AM 0 comments

fOOked

i rest in my bed
with answers unsaid
mixed emotions
fill my heart
everythin jus
tears me apart
deluded and aggravated
and my clouds darkened
these cold gloomy days
my emotions..
mixed emotions evoked
i cant run or either hide
cant seem to burst this feelin inside

Posted by Sshree at 10:59 PM 0 comments

3month into vanavaasam

well its planned .. sept 2nd my flight on SILK Air to truvandrum,kerala. my unky will be waitin to pick us up at the airport.. never been to kerala airport ..im partialy excited partially not intending this trip partially worried partially emotion-struck ..goina prepare a list of things to get for e pple...and a list of things i need to get from india..guess wat folks.. im Goina get a half saree sewn!hahah i know.. pple usually get westernized when they livin abroad..but look at me.. im goin back to the village culture..ehehee.. who wantz a piece of dis village moma (kidding!!!!!lol!)_

but then on da outlook on weather.. im not goina fry in the heat this time round.. its goina be all cool and chilly..:) dats sounds soo nice.. thinkin back at the awful heat stroke i got ..sleepin and wakin up in a furnace..yikes.. anyway.. my return date is uncertain..still ..i MIGHt or might not come back.. due to uncertain reasons (eg: gettin married off to some wacko ) ewwww... i'll die lol.. TODAY the most disgusting thing happend.. i actually read through a chain letter..and even tried to send it..!!i know.. i need a slap at this moment *slapsself* I couldnT RESIST!! i swear in suganya's life history.. knowin dat it was a chain letter and opening it was sumthing.. and actually sendin it out?talk abt NO-LIFEr!..it read "find out the name and address of the person u'll end up marrying... " lol i know.. it was so dumbass of me ..I GOt a big ass exam today evening.. Ive beeen so damn FRIGGIN SICK for the past two days.. REALLY sneezin and coughin flu...ARGH when i WANNA be sick id un get sick when i have crucial exams liek dis .DATS WHEN DIs fookin thing comes along.I need hot soup rite this min.. chicken.. soup.. hmmmmgmmmm!!!

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another lifestorie

im back.. i know i havent been updatin this much.. its not becos of procrastination...its becos of my exams and my procrastination...
today on 18th aug 10 25 pm.. im feelin SICK.. VERY very sick.. ive got a mild fever with sneezing weezing..coughin...sore throat and everythin.. argghh.. WHEN I WANNA BE SICK I DUN GET SICK,,WHEN I GOT AN EXAM THE NEXT DAY DATS WHEN I GET SICK..fuckin body! i mean Comeon! yesterday i had this bad ass sore throat..i wanna forget yesterday happened..dun ask..


13.08.04:
well to mention abt my birthday... it went super well... i got tons of sweet pple callin me at 12 to wish me.. den i woke up at 8 30 got ready to go ta da temple. it was packed..in da shivakrishnan temple.. and it seems dat they had sum sumangali prayers..and sum other stuff.. cos there was pooja after poojas goin on.. and there was also the shivan prathosham. or sumthin..i was stayin dere from 10am to 130 pm... had my lunch there.. and i put vellaku too..yea soo.. by the time i was back home i was soooo tired..rested for a while until 4 :P den got dressed and left for my sisters skool tea party for the indian cultural grp.before taht i called up shivani..to ask her if she was commin..she said she was..so met up with her at the yishun long john silvers..(always pronouncing it as john little)..kumar his friend vino or sumone like dat..den nursin Usha was all dere.. was chillin wit dem for a while.. den sumhow got to the show thinking it was a normal show thingy..after the show ended they had a dance floor ..me being jus a hyper freak dat i am..i was pullin eevryone to dance..when all of a sudden my sis goes up the stage and goes like "hey can i have ure attention" and then i knew it.. i knew she was goina go wack and yea.. she told the whole world dat it was my burthday and guess wat she HAD CHOCOLATE CAKE!!!!! yummmy from bagawan solo!..yes IT was ragin.. and i was soo touched.. dint know my sis cud be dis sweeet.. (well actually apart from da bathrakali cases..)neways.. after all the cake cuttin and stuff.. we partyd harrrd.. ohhh yeaa (but den all the songz dey played were tamil and crap..bah wateevr.. we boogied for dat too anyway..) teh best part was SHivani was dancin to dem aswell lol. was jokess..

Posted by Sshree at 9:54 AM 0 comments

well jus been S-T-U-C-K at home for like the PAST 4 DAYS... crap AINT taht CRAP!!..im goin out tonite i dont CARE!!!!..ITS gettin to me..bein at home...for soo long.. anyway NOW THERES A new plan.. my mom my sis plannin to go india rite?..and They want me to go with them,.. FOR 3 MONTHS...its liek ALL DA plans so far.. to lankawi..and KL.. its only plans..
i dont seem to have moved an inch frm my house so far!!!wat the fuck rite?...bah watever.. if i go for 3 months i have to posponned my this semester for the NEXT sem.. sigh FUCK dis..AND Im goina miss my sayang.. OH WHY OH WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY :(

Posted by Sshree at 12:26 PM 0 comments

yloha

ive been sooo tired lately ... not enuff sleep for the past few days.. :P and also months cos of u noe who..but then.. i know i know my cos of my bill i might suffer fatal death..by murder or by suicide..lol :Djk ... and u know pple? ive been the most wannabe badass sarcastic bitch on da planet who thought id never get mushy mushy lemme tell love jus changes everything..one good example.. everything u talk abt nowadays jus gets lovey inside it..*SLAPS self* ooookay dun worry u wont be gettin dat much love "crap" in here..:)
soo yea.. dat stupid 1500 essay results came..lol.. it was pretty bad.. sighhhh im not really the theorotical busieness sorta person i guess... yes i know..lame ass excuse.. HEY im tryina make myself feel better here..yea.. and i also realised ive got NOTHING.. absolutely nothing related to computers in my blood except for blogging and msn fordat matter.. im SO changin my course for my b.deg ...cos.. pple who blog aint geekz..or nerds..its jus wat kinda crap u blog abt shows waht u are..u noe.. like have i ever posted a techie shit load? the only one i posted was dat cute lil rubber usb storage thingies.. and the caption dat read dat was" HEHE CUTE" dat shows how much im into tech... jus cos i fix home appliances outta mere luck dun mean anything *figured dat part recently* two of my friends already called me a BIMBO ! dumb and beautiful < wtf.. I CAN TALK ABT TONS OF STUFF OKAY !!and i dun talk abt bimbo stuff!! annoyin pple!
neways ive been thinking too much sun sand and sea lately... but u know sumthin? i realised that house on da waterfront.. dats goina be mine already in my list of things to get before i die...which reminds me if i want dat house i gotta get a gd job... if i want a job i need to get edukation:P if i want edukation i need to study..:) so im off TOODLEZ

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weblogowned

43.75 %

My weblog owns 43.75 % of me.
Does your weblog own you?

Posted by Sshree at 11:50 AM 0 comments

on my left mr right is jus perfect
on my right mr left me out
the guilt is jus pounding my hand ful of flesh inside my ribs
I feel ive done something terribly wrong in heaven
or was that hell
if wat i did was really that sinful...why am i still living?


this someone is a gem...not jus any gem.. like an african diamond
but then.. ive made that someone cry... for the first time.. it hurts me more than anything...
especially cos the person who ive hurt was not even at fault...
cos of my mistake..i caused heart ache...
i feel like i need to be shot...
but then.. i know i didnt do anythin wrong..but someoneelse is makin me feel like ive committed a murder...and i feel that i might have broken some of my own policies thinkin of dat..

i thought i'll be the only one crying for my mistake..but... someone else cries with me.. which jus shook me up so much dat i fergot abt my original guilt....

anyway... this was before i read a imp piece of email..the most worthwhile mail ive ever recieved in my life..uptil now..and i dont know i jus realised i have a lotta stuff to organise..this time its not my wardrobe or stuff in my room..but organise wat i want to do with my life..and how im goina get them...

i used to think..if u want things in life .it was liek sumthin like greed..and i mean but NOW..... its only human if u Want sumthing outta ure life.. i realised ive been mixed up abt things in life.. for once im gettin things to my head..cos of someone..i jus got like "nuclear atomic bombz" in my mind recently abt each issue or complication im facing in life rite now... and... it used to be like turmoil after turmoil.. dat i had no sense of direction or help watsoever..life was so dense I WAS LOST!but now..i feel like god sent me a guide..to my life rite now..step by step ..inch by inch..taking baby steps with this big hand to hold me when i fall...i feel treasured and special... now a smile jus erases all my wounds..fresh or old ..an assuring voice always givin me that strength i used to lack so much...

*god sent me an angel from heavens above*

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