October 2011
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The Dance of the Self-Beheading Woman: Death and...
http://escholarship.usyd.edu.au/journals/index.php/SSR/article/viewFile/209/188
According to Lak~mjnkara’s vision, Vajrayoginj is naked and fiercely beautiful; the female body and the feminine form are affirmed, for in a cremation ground the duality of life and death does not hold for a cjakini who originates there. A cjakini may feed on rotting corpses, wear ornaments made from skeletons,...
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Why Some Seconds Seem to Last Forever →
neuroticthought:
Here’s some nice research supporting the idea that the ‘time keeper’ in your head is based off of different neurons or neural groups that respond to distinct frequencies of time. Using beeps and flashes of a certain duration, they ‘fatigued’ the neurons that correspond to one frequency of time. The patients were then tasked with telling which beep or flash was longer out of...
