Some standard images psychiatrist used to evaluate patient are on Wikipedia. NYT has a piece - Has Wikipedia Created a Rorschach Cheat Sheet? Guardian has a piece. This also anger many psychiatrist in the US. From Mind Hack,"While the release of the ink blots onto the internet seems to have caused controversy among US psychologists, most European psychologists are likely to be rolling their eyes, as the test never caught on and is largely extinct."
But now we can all download and 'play' with it, you can also use this to 'evaluate' your friend. Go download them before someone from Wiki Admin decide that you have no right to those images.
Mind Hacks -Rorschach and awe
Wikipedia - Inkblots
I am not sure, but evolution theory said we inherited traits of ape, that's why we swing our arms forward when we are walking. Steven Collins, a biomechanical engineer at Delft University of Technology discovered, that this is a more efficient way of walking. Not only we cannot balance, but we will use up 25% more energy to walk without swinging our arms. Off course this make sense, or else we would have urge to pick up a cup with our leg from time to time.
I received a set of picture from a friend. Usually I treat it as spam. Not this one, this set of photo has a theme I like it very much. I save all of them and share one here. I don't know who took these pictures, if you find stumble upon, please tell me.
This is a picture I got from National Geography. How can you not deeply care about the state of humanity after seeing this? I was badly shaken that day. But that was another story.
Toy maker in Japan claims developed toy can translate dog bark in human understandable emoticon. There are frustration, joy, sadness etc. I wonder is there a "I hate you" emoticon.
From Wikipedia. It is often erroneously called the first graphic novel, or the first work to describe itself as such. It is nonetheless an early landmark of the form, and critically lauded in its own right. The kind of comic I like.
Japan is one of the place on Earth I would like to spend some time staying, weatherly speaking. Here is some tips from The Nihon Sun on catching salmon in Japan. From selecting location to local rules. Kudos! Salmon is just too wonderful for human to not know about it.
He says on his Flickr,