We meet a mad man and I have much difficulty in understanding his jumbled words. His name is Barking Wilder, he belongs to a faction Chaosmen (Xaositects) and according to Morte, they attract members who are crazy or chaotic enough like flies.
Barking Wilder hunches down on his knees and begins to rock back and forth, [...]
Just outside the mortuary gate, I talk to a hunched guy with purplish green rash covering his chin and neck. He has a strange name, Pox, given by his parents who had cursed him by wishing a pox on their first born. Pox is also a deader collector and he mentions that only Dustmen and [...]
I awake inside a mortuary and there is a bizarre floating skull that befriended me. His name is Morte. Morte tells me that the tattoos on my back come with directions, “that I will need to find my journal and Pharod“.
The Mortuary uses zombies as cheap labor.
The first living person we meet is a very [...]
From Telegraph by David Sapsted.
Seventy years locked up in institutions hardly seems to be a punishment that befits the crime of stealing half-a-crown.
However, it is just such a fate that befell Jean Gambell when at the age of 15, in 1937, she was falsely accused of stealing 2s 6d (12.5p) from the doctor’s surgery where [...]
From SharpBrains.
They have put together a selection of the 50 Brain Teasers that people have enjoyed the most in their blog and speaking engagements.
They classify them into attention, memory, pattern recognition and planning, visual workouts and illusions, logic, math puzzles and some fun experiments.
Have a good workout!
From Discover Magazine.
How is information coded in neural activity?
It is likely that mental information is stored not in single cells but in populations of cells and patterns of their activity. Although traveling bursts of voltage can carry signals across the brain quickly, those electrical spikes may not be the only—or even the main—way that information [...]
From PhysOrg.com.
Suppose you have a lot of information and you want to put it together so it makes sense. Here’s a suggestion from psychologists at Harvard Medical School — sleep on it.
“But remembering lots of facts is not the only or even the main function of memory,” says Walker, a sleep expert who works at [...]