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aaronrichter:

Spiritualized’s Jason Pierce at the Ace Hotel in New York for self-titled No. 15.

© Aaron Richter

Yeah, so, I fell in love with Jason Pierce last night.

• 26 May 2012 • 31 notes

We are floating in space.

• 26 May 2012 • 2 notes

“Unfortunately, we did not evolve a baloney-detection network in the brain to distinguish between true and false patterns. We have no error-detection governor to modulate the pattern-recognition engine.”

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Shermer, Michael. The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies — How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths. New York: Times Books, 2011. (via carvalhais)

Probably not totally true - pattern recognition is one of our many mental shortcuts that we are not always aware of. But most of the time, if we become more conscious of it we can at least realize what’s happening and decide to accept or reject those patterns. Of course, confirmation bias is a real thing, so it takes more effort to reject the continuation of patterns we expect. But it is definitely not impossible.

Also, executive control anyone? Jeez. Give us some credit.

(via scinerds)

• 24 May 2012 • 61 notes

calivintage:

by Emily Dahl.

I think I’m going to try to force myself not to wear jeans for a week. I need to break this habit and start dressing like an adult. Specifically, an adult that wears cute clothes.

• 24 May 2012 • 492 notes