Pinterest is an online pinboard.
Organize and share things you love.
I want to know what inspires you the most and why. I opened this board up to some of my followers to see what happens.
German design collective Urbanscreen projects images onto the sails of the Sydney Opera House at the opening night of the Vivid Festival in Sydney. Daniel Munoz/Reuters
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Bea Duya, 3, plays with a giant soap bubble along the Thames river in London. Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters
Love this as an office - those floors; that painting / landscape architect guido hager's berlin apartment, interior by helenio barbetta.
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Competitors take part in the Women's 5000m heats during the BUCS Visa Outdoor Athletics Championships at the Olympic Stadium in London. Eddie Keogh/Reuters
Always be Wonder Woman!
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diamonds are just rocks which handle stress exceptionally well.
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Cute little girl, very true message! I love smiling :)
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Texas! It's where I'm from!
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My cousin seen here with his wife and young daughter. He was on leave from Iraq for Christmas (2005). A bystander at the airport took these photos and then emailed them to his wife. The emotion in her eyes makes me tear up every time. #nationalguard #reserves #army #reunion #family
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What success looks like...just completed my first marathon!
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Heather Coleman That is AWESOME!
Karen Rafala Congrats. I did the 1/2. hilly course.
Attia Nasar Thanks! It was hilly...I did not enjoy the end hills!
Dandelion love!
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Heather Coleman I'm also a big dandelion fan...use it as metaphor for spreading social media seeds.
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about Creating yourself"
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Attia Nasar from google.com
Why people stop reading your company's email, Facebook posts, and Tweets
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Nancy Moon Isn't this the truth!
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.
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everything around me
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Nancy Moon This is why I'm on Pinterest at the moment.
via Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008)
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Heather Coleman I haven't seen this quote before. I love it. Do you know if she has a biography out?
New device hacks into blind people’s visual cortex to let them "see." This Sensory Substitution Device uses the camera to gather visual data and then uses a rather nifty computer algorithm to translates this data into sound. With a little practice, blind users can identify complex objects, and even read words. The invention is the invention of Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Dr. Amir Amedi, who you can see modeling the device in the picture up top. Amedi says that with only a relatively brief period of training, users can learn how to interpret a ton of information the "soundscapes" created by the computer algorithm, including the nature of complex everyday objects, the location and posture of people in a room, and even written letters and words. What makes this particularly cool is that the sounds being created actually activate the ohterwise dormant visual cortices of congenitally blind people. Previous research had indicated that the visual cortex organizes data into two parallel pathways. The ventral occipito-temporal pathway, called the "what" pathway, deals with form, identity, and color, while the dorsal occipito-parietal pathway, or the "where/how" pathway, focuses on object location and coordinates visual data with motor function. MRI scans revealed that blind people using this device activated these pathways just as people with normal vision would, indicating the proper functioning of the visual cortex doesn't actually require any visual information. In a statement, Amedi argued that this means that "The brain is not a sensory machine, although it often looks like one; it is a task machine." This is one of a few recent studies that have suggested that actual visual, auditory, or tactile data aren't necessary for the brain to interpret what is going on around it. The various pathways of the brain seem to stand ready to interpret data, even if the corresponding sensory organs or receptors don't actually work. It seems, as far as the visual cortex concerned, no experience is required.
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love this, so true
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The Magic Of Gratitude
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Heather Coleman Do you keep a gratitude journal @Danielle Ricks?
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Michelle Melius Fantastic, though I cannot see it in my home. (✿ˆ◡ˆ✿)