holy shit. guys. GUYS.
What a squid does when it listens to Cypress Hill.
Insane in the Membrane (Potential)
I’ll be over here, flipping out due to the sheer awesomeness of this.
In case you’re curious about what’s actually going on here, allow me to sprinkle some context on ya.
Nerve signals, whether they lead to squid chromatophore stimulation or muscle contraction, are essentially electric signals. Not in the sense that there are electrons flowing through your nerves like the wires in your house, but rather because of some very nifty ion gradients and voltages across cell membranes.
When an audio signal is converted to an electric signal, basically what happens inside a microphone, that electric voltage can be applied to tissues! The resulting voltage changes can trigger electrochemical signals, just like the chromatophores you see above.
What’s that? Not enough awesome for you? Well here’s a cockroach leg being stimulated by the Beastie Boys.
Listen to this song. It’s by an early 2000s band from Boston called Jetavana Grove. I almost prefer music written by people who are not “real musicians”, whose earnestness shines through in every song in different ways.
i don’t always agree with Peter but he’s spot on about education
A Conversation with Peter Thiel - The American Interest Magazine (via pegobry)
Paul Higgins: This is a big issue for something which is seen as a long term investment. As career changes and job changes have become more frequent the value of the initial piece of paper has reduced. I think that value for fundamental skills education with a bit of paper on the end of it will continue to have value. However the rise in “just in time” skills transfer, the creation of all sorts of new jobs in a rapidly changing world, and multiple sources and channels for education are rapidly devaluing the specific skill qualification.
San diego.
Watching guys surf the pacific coast in a t shirt and it’s almost christmas. Spent last week living on a makeshift vagrant camp/rv park, met a lot of cool kids. Meeting up with stanton for a quincy holiday. Trying to find some quick work, wait out winter. Hit 6000 miles. Oil changed few grand ago. Tires holding strong @ 40 psi.
