Why do we kiss?

Un artículo en Scientific American, bastante extenso, sobre la evolución y biología del beso. Apropiado para el próximo catorce de febrero? Por qué no? xD

"Lips may have evolved first for food and later applied themselves to speech, but in kissing they satisfy different kinds of hungers. In the body, a kiss triggers a cascade of neural messages and chemicals that transmit tactile sensations, sexual excitement, feelings of closeness, motivation and even euphoria."


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Presente

éste es el disco de ulises hadjis (ex-batería de julia y productor de furia de buzo ciego); se llama presente. una delicia auditiva, por decir lo menos (lo muchísimo menos). lo consiguen en sonoaudio, en la setenta y dos, diagonal al nuevo de cándido de la lago. si se quieren un poquito, aunque sea un poquito, cómprenlo.

http://www.myspace.com/uliseshadjis

No espero entender esto.

Ni espero que nadie lo haga. Pero, igual, el solo título es atractivo.


The Importance of Quantum Decoherence in Brain Processes

adiós, joker.

murió heath ledger. las causas aún se desconocen. ya es imposible negar cuán oscura será the dark knight.

postal para nina

jens lekman, en vivo, tocando a postcard to nina. EN DOS VERSIONES, PARA MAYOR DELEITE AUDIOVISUAL!!!
si esto no es genialidad, no sé qué es xD

hablando de música...

PLASTILINA MOSH!!!! EN MARACAIBO!!!! EL QUINCE DE FEBRERO!!!! EN EL SAMBIL!!!!


http://www.myspace.com/therealpmosh

What is music?

"First, a definition of terms. What is it we're talking about here? What exactly is being bought and sold? In the past, music was something you heard and experienced — it was as much a social event as a purely musical one. Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context. Epic songs and ballads, troubadours, courtly entertainments, church music, shamanic chants, pub sing-alongs, ceremonial music, military music, dance music — it was pretty much all tied to specific social functions. It was communal and often utilitarian. You couldn't take it home, copy it, sell it as a commodity (except as sheet music, but that's not music), or even hear it again. Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone — a memory.

Technology changed all that in the 20th century. Music — or its recorded artifact, at least — became a product, a thing that could be bought, sold, traded, and replayed endlessly in any context. This upended the economics of music, but our human instincts remained intact. I spend plenty of time with buds in my ears listening to recorded music, but I still get out to stand in a crowd with an audience. I sing to myself, and, yes, I play an instrument (not always well).

We'll always want to use music as part of our social fabric: to congregate at concerts and in bars, even if the sound sucks; to pass music from hand to hand (or via the Internet) as a form of social currency; to build temples where only "our kind of people" can hear music (opera houses and symphony halls); to want to know more about our favorite bards — their love lives, their clothes, their political beliefs. This betrays an eternal urge to have a larger context beyond a piece of plastic. One might say this urge is part of our genetic makeup."

david byrne y la transformación que el negocio musical ha sufrido desde fines del siglo xx

C2H5OH

"Ethanol has been used by humans since prehistory as the intoxicating ingredient in alcoholic beverages. Dried residues on 9000-year-old pottery found in China imply the use of alcoholic beverages even among Neolithic people. Its isolation as a relatively pure compound was first achieved by Muslim chemists who developed the art of distillation during the Abbasid caliphate, the most notable of whom were Jabir ibn Hayyan (Geber), Al-Kindi (Alkindus) and al-Razi (Rhazes). The writings attributed to Jabir ibn Hayyan (721-815) mention the flammable vapors of boiled wine. Al-Kindi (801-873) unambiguously described the distillation of wine. Absolute ethanol was obtained in 1796 by Johann Tobias Lowitz, by filtering distilled ethanol through charcoal."

ethyl alcohol, drinking alcohol or grain alcohol

oda a los conductores irresponsables de maracaibo

gracias, señora conductora irresponsable que estúpidamente jodió mi carro. muchísimas gracias. de no haber sido por este choque absurdo (del que nadie salió lesionado, al menos físicamente), no hubiese recordado el video de esta preciosa canción. tenía años sin escucharla.
una vez más, adorada conductora: mil gracias.

un rato con el ratón modesto

we´ll all float on

cover, otra vez. bluegrass, otra vez.

pero esta vez es de morning bell!!!

Los Campesinos!

You! Me! Dancing!



no, en serio. el grupo se llama así. y la canción también. xD

la vida, el universo y todo

"Suppose our universe isn't all that there is, but is merely an infinitesimal component of a vast and elaborate patchwork quilt of different universes — a 'multiverse'. The laws of physics, rather than being universal, are more like local by-laws, each universe having its own distinctive set, perhaps allocated randomly in a gigantic cosmic lottery. In that case, the vast majority of universes would lack the delicate fine-tuning that biology demands, and so would go unobserved.

But by chance, a tiny fraction of universes would possess just the right laws — with just the right values of the biologically critical quantities — for life to emerge. It would then be no surprise that we find ourselves in a life-encouraging universe because we could hardly find ourselves in one that forbids living organisms. What at first seems like a fix is in fact nothing of the kind; we have simply hit the cosmic jackpot."

life, the universe and everything

querido bowie

un mash-up de never get old con rebel rebel.

lo conseguí en este artículo, bien bueno, sobre sus últimos cinco discos

David Bowie and the crisis pentalogy

La encuesta de Pitchfork

En diciembre, Pitchfork Media abrió una encuesta en su página, para que los lectores votaran por sus discos y canciones favoritos del 2007.
Aquí están los resultados. Supongo que no sorprenden, en realidad. xD

Feliz año nuevo!!!

Año nuevo. Vida nueva. Webcast Nuevo!!!

brillante. absolutamente brillante.

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