How did you think they go all that work done?

From Walt Whitman - God’s Kisses, And The Fraudulent Butterfly.

Walt Whitman’s scribbling in his personal notebook  I fortuitously discovered in researching Walt Whitman, God’s Kisses, And The Fraudulent Butterfly.

In considering alternative motivational systems for treatment adherence, I became acquainted with Fun Theory, which is based on the premise that the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better is by making it fun to do. The folks behind this concept have put together a few video illustrations, including this one, called “Piano Stairs,” that are – OK, they’re fun.

“Un Canadien errant” has now been re-interpreted and, arguably, re-invented in a variation unanticipated by Leonard Cohen or Antoine Gérin-Lajoie yet one that will be instantly and intuitively recognizable to anyone who was certain that Hendrix was singing “Excuse me while I kiss this guy” or that Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”  contains the  line, “Scare a moose, scare a moose, will you do my fan Van Gogh?”A completely unique  Leonard Cohen video From  “The Lost Canadian” Performed By Leonard Cohen – A Video Re-interpretation

The researchers focused on a single molecule of pentacene, which is commonly used in solar cells. The rectangular-shaped organic molecule is made up of 22 carbon atoms and 14 hydrogen atoms.

In the image above the hexagonal shapes of the five carbon rings are clear and even the positions of the hydrogen atoms around the carbon rings can be seen.

To give some perspective, the space between the carbon rings is only 0.14 nanometers across, which is roughly one million times smaller than the diameter of a grain of sand.

More at link: Single molecule pictured for first time

Pie chart from funny, profane, and all too true to life email exchange with the client from hell who wants to trade his vague promise of future profits if the project is successful for your free work (graphic design in this case).  It’s like twitter. Except we charge people to use it.”

I’ve said it before (about a year ago, for example, on this site) and I’ll no doubt say it again (about a year from now, for example, on this site):

No one, no where produces incredible 3-D pumpkins like Ray Villafane

Street sign in Mérida, capital city of Yucatán.  Most of the native Mayana couldn’t read Spanish so signs with graphics such as these were used.  Now they are being restored.

Freud and His Damn Dog – Roy Grinker On Being Analyzed By Sigmund Freud The head of the psychiatric program at Michael Reese during my residency was Roy Grinker, Sr, MD, who was quite a hot-shot in psychiatry for a number of accomplishments. Our interest today, however has to do with the fact that he was analyzed by Freud – on a 1932 Rockefeller Fellowship, no less.

Excerpt:

Grinker was emoting with intensity when, as Grinker explained it, “The damn dog jumped on top of me.” Freud immediately responded — by commenting that Yofi was excited that Grinker had discovered the roots of his anxiety. During this interpretation, Grinker, by his own report, lay quietly with eyes closed, as one is taught to do when, for example, attacked by wild bears. [Yofi, Freud’s Chinese Chow, pictured at right]