Newly Sighted Fail To Match `Seen with Felt'

Hello TAL fans, sorry for the lack of posts - occasionally TAL will suffer from that perhaps. Anyway, back to the gig. And, today, for the higher intelligent AnomalyMan Listing readers mentality - cool science article - a tease:
Would a blind subject, on regaining sight, be able to immediately visually recognize an object previously known only by touch? We addressed this question, first formulated by Molyneux three centuries ago, by working with treatable, congenitally blind individuals. We tested their ability to visually match an object to a haptically sensed sample after sight restoration.
You have to read how they got the `data' for this study, ie:how the people were `found' for this research. And, this was one of the key nuggets:
Whatever linkage between vision and touch may pre-exist concomitant exposure of both senses, it is insufficient for reconciling the identity of the separate sensory representations. However, this ability can apparently be acquired after short real-world experiences. An alternative explanation to the progression in haptic-visual cross-modal abilities is a rapid increase in the visual ability to create a three-dimensional representation, thus allowing for a more accurate mapping between haptic structures and visual ones. This seems to run counter, however, to the observed slow progression
There's more detail, lots more, at the link - http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nn.2795.html
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Ready for a HEAVY read? Yep, Lujan Matus and friends lay it all out in a read that will sweep you away. A tease:
What a wonderful metaphor for our life it is, that in order to claim our personal power we have to sensitively react to our surroundings and follow the way we are meant to walk rather than enforcing our will onto our surroundings and go wherever we want to go. Such are the Tears: they transcend into all layers of our life. The practice will begin in that half an hour or so daily and the principles realized will find their way into every interaction we engage in. It is truly an act of magic.
Lots more of the knowledge freely transmitted by Lujan Matus at the link -
http://coyopaheart.blogspot.com/2011/03/interview-with-naguals-lujan-matus.html
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Awakening the Third Eye: Discovering the True Essence of Recapitulation
The Art of Stalking Parallel Perception: The Living Tapestry of Lujan Matus
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For One Tiny Instant, Physicists May Have Broken a Law of Nature

TAL readers are a notch above in intelligence - let your mind tackle this cutting edge science link - http://opac.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=7358 - here's a tease:
The team created something called a quark-gluon plasma — a kind of "soup" that results when energies reach high enough levels to break up protons and neutrons into their constituent quarks and gluons, the fundamental building blocks of matter.
Theorists believe this kind of quark-gluon plasma, which has a temperature of four trillion degrees Celsius, existed just after the Big Bang, when the universe was only a microsecond old. The plasma "bubble" created in the collisions at RHIC lasted for a mere millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a second, yet the team hopes to use it to learn more about how structure in the universe — from black holes to galaxies — may have formed out of the soup.
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Meanwhile, ..... MAP OF THE DAY: The World Water CrisisWater for Sale: How Business and the Market Can Resolve the World's Water Crisis
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/water-crisis-2011-3#ixzz1IeAFk4tj - Great Analysis.
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Continuing the surf on sciences edge - Biology's 'dark matter' hints at fourth domain of life - http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20265-biologys-dark-matter-hints-at-fourth-domain-of-life.html
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O'HARE LIKE UFO SIGHTING/DANGEROUS OBJECTS OVER AIRPORTS

Here's a real interesting report of a largely unknown UFO report with a similarity or two to the O'Hare UFO Incident of 2006. The report you are about to read and see via the video is of a daytime UFO incident in Columbus Ohio on Feb. 23rd, 1984 - relatively close to the airport. The `rectangular-rotating-structure' was in the skies for upwards of 20 minutes. Only 32K views - deserving of more.

Description with video:
REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE OBJECTS ARE, REPORTS OF ANY OBJECT OVER AN AIRPORT SHOULD BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. EVEN A GOOSE CAN CAUSE AN AIRPLANE CRASH.

As in the November 7, 2006 O'Hare sighting, this object was rotating and over an airport. The observation occurred around 4 P.M. on February 23, 1984 over Hamilton Hall on the Ohio State University campus in Columbus, Ohio. When the first witness, W1, sighted the object, from a stairwell under an east-facing window, it looked, in general, like a flying, rotating rectangle. Part of the time it had a bright light under it. It moved slowly, was on the flight path of Port Columbus Airport, and a low jet appeared to pass under it as W1 watched. W1 went to the department office and collected 4 other witnesses.

In general, it looked like a rectangle, which would disappear and then come back into view. During part of the observation, a much smaller, but very bright white light was under the rectangle. The object rotated at precise regular intervals of about once a minute. It didn't just twist randomly in the wind.

The witnesses watched it for approximately 20-25 minutes as, it slowly drifted toward Port Columbus airport. The witnesses asked if there were a telescope or camera in the building, but were unable to find one. By around 4:20, a witness called Warren Nicholson, who worked at the nearby Battelle Memorial Institute and who investigates UFO sightings. By this time, the object was nearly out of sight. Mr. Nicholson called back to say that he had looked for it from the roof of the main Battelle building, but had been unable to see it. He later said that he had checked with Port Columbus immediately and they told him the wind velocity was 0. They couldn't see it on radar.

Mr. Nicholson later said that that evening a family had also made a UFO report describing it as four lines in the sky. The father had taken pictures through a 1200 power telephoto lens with ASA 400 color film. The wife described the lines as tear drop shaped and the husband described each as shaped like an airplane's wing section. They were visible in the west and were dark. They then flew away in four different directions. Mr. Nicholson said the witnesses were very credible. He thought that many sightings in one day were a 'flurry' of activity.

So far, the object has never been identified. One characteristic noted by all witnesses was its regular rotation and rectangular appearance. No balloon shape was seen. It would be quite difficult for a balloon to continually rotate regularly, because wind currents would prevent this. The rotation was very regular, not a twisting in the wind (and there was no wind). In addition, there would need to be some sort of power plant and a method of propulsion to allow it to maintain its rotation.

As in the O'Hare observation, all witness was credible. All now have Ph.D.s and have been or are university professors. The reports were collected from each individual witness independently on or within a few days of the sighting and sent to the CUFOS. No one had any idea what the object was. Because of the lack of wind and the overhead power lines the witnesses were sure it wasn't a kite. A daytime sighting of a rotating object is very rare. The observation was reported in several books.
Rectangle Shaped Objects for all to see - we live in a Fortean World Indeed.
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Over at Barf Stew today is a buffet of links sure to stir your blood pressure - such as a link that is pure class warfare to begin - http://barfstew.blogspot.com/2011/03/american-super-rich-face-revolution.html
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Today's News - that your hometown paper didn't have the nerve to print - along with HUMOR - can be found here today - http://morningredditheadlines.blogspot.com/2011/03/reddit-headlines-march-31st-2011.html
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Speaking of hometown newspapers - this image could have appeared in one for sure - year - 1924 - Hit the Shorpy Link to find out what these guys are in this line for:

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http://www.shorpy.com/files/images/nightline.jpg

http://www.shorpy.com/node/10180?size=_original (with comments and story)

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AnomalyMan readers are the intellectuals of the bunch - and this total overview as to a probable outcome to our overpopulated planet is an article worthy of TALs readers time - How It Might Go Down (A Global Population Scenario) - http://jdmoyer.com/2011/03/25/how-it-might-go-down/

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Is 17 the "most random" number?

Some intriguing graphs for sure. Study even compares the `random' numbers of humans compared to computer `random choices' - also accounts for effects with the number 17 removed from the results (respondents were asked to pick a number from 1-20) - http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2007/02/is_17_the_most_random_number.php
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A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates
Random Number Generation and Monte Carlo Methods
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This site carried TAL's latest link and now - there is a discussion about it - worth your click - http://shtf411.com/three-orb-structures-invade-american-skies-t14705.html
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The AnomalyMan Listing has LONG done the Time Travel Picture with Today's Shorpy - like this 1917 Balancing Act:

(click to enlarge - note the item under the bottom tables leg to get it balanced)

http://www.shorpy.com/files/images/09580a.jpg

http://www.shorpy.com/node/10186?size=_original (with comments)

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Craving some esoteric UFO thoughts? Duensing takes you there - http://materialintangible.blogspot.com/2011/03/ridding-ourselves-of-nothing-with-ufo.html
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Trippy Computer Image - https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-jBmLSljM8xM/TYR6AAF_LXI/AAAAAAAADqw/vv_DnDQdhzs/s1600/Emergent+city+4+best+with+light.jpg
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Three ORB Structures Invade American Skies (4 Videos)

These are almost becoming frighteningly frequent in America - none of these sightings, I believed, even generated a TV report. All this amid some reports of a HUGE increase in UFO sightings this month worldwide. IMO, all of these videos are noteworthy and don't seem part of a hoax.
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The first video up is from Lowell, Massachusetts and happened in the skies there on 3-11-11: (6,200 views) This one ultimately has more than three Orbs at times, turns into a square even,  and is the least `structured' IMO of the videos below:


Video Two - Southern California (language warning) - 3-15 uploaded - 12,400 views - `A Triangle that moves and changes shape. You get to see one Orb light up as it goes from two orbs to a three point object. (Original source)


Video Three - Las Vegas - 21,000 views - similar to the Phoenix Lights of 1997 - 3-16-11 ---- 11:48PM (Original Source)


Or this 3-19 `Triangle, 4 at times, over Florida' - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPr9jF2ilds

Video Four - Denver Colorado area - 3-20-11 -- 39,000 views --- BEST VIDEO in terms of being like the Phoenix Lights of 1997 -- Indeed read the description below the video:


Description with video:
Closer view of the UFOs above Denver, Colorado. They moved very slowly in a triangular formation across the sky then disappeared one at a time. We were in Lafayette, CO in my cousin's backyard facing west. The lights appeared to be approximately 3000-6000 feet high, coming from the West-Southwest and moving to the southeast. When they disappeared, they seemed to be directly over Denver. I was only visiting on my vacation, so I am not positive about the exact location or direction we were facing, but I am sure we were looking towards the west. We viewed the lights for approximately 15-20 minutes before they disappeared.
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Seems hard to believe that this last video didnt' make the news, don't you think?
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