“If you hold your cat’s head up to your ear you can hear the ocean on the nearest planet that has an ocean”
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“My wife’s cat is terrified of me because I give him his ear mite treatments, but he cries and cries if he isn’t allowed to sleep near me. I know Stockholm Syndrome. The only part that I am not clear on is which of us has it.”
— Clintchurion Hammerstein
.. which fits the theory that cats are responsible for human brain damage on a culture-wide scale ……
(photographs: NOLA, May 2012)
Posted September 20, 2012 at 9:10am in Kevin Shields Stockholm Syndrome big camera cats quotes Kevin D Lafferty Toxoplasma gondii toxoplasmosis
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this whole time (15 years) I thought Kevin was watching TV w/ me, he ain’t been watching shit
The average cat is believed to have a visual acuity between 20/100 and 20/200. Simply put, cats are nearsighted.
Cats can see color, but they do not have as many color-sensitive photoreceptors as humans. Colors that would appear to be very rich to us are more pastel-like to the cat. Cats respond to the blue and yellow wavelengths best, but have trouble with green and red. What appears to us as “red” is simply “dark” to cats. A fraction of the green spectrum in cats is indistinguishable from white. Cats would see a green, grassy lawn as a whitish lawn, and a green rosebush with red roses would appear as a whitish bush with dark flowers. Cats, however, are very good at distinguishing many different shades of gray.
(panel by Marcos Martin)
Posted August 3, 2012 at 10:27am in Arnold Plotnick Daredevil Marcos Martin blindness cats comix science Vision
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Psychopaths are estimated to make up 1 percent of the population but constitute roughly 15 to 25 percent of the offenders in prison and are responsible for a disproportionate number of brutal crimes and murders. A recent estimate by the neuroscientist Kent Kiehl placed the national cost of psychopathy at $460 billion a year — roughly 10 times the cost of depression — in part because psychopaths tend to be arrested repeatedly. (The societal costs of nonviolent psychopaths may be even higher. Robert Hare, the co-author of “Snakes in Suits,” describes evidence of psychopathy among some financiers and business people; he suspects Bernie Madoff of falling into that category.)
Posted May 14, 2012 at 7:39pm in psychopaths Jennifer Kahn Bernie Madoff N.C. Wyeth Merlin King Arthur painting Kevin Shields big camera cats
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“Tuning Forks”
… most something something drawing in recent memory …… can own th original for $150 … apparently …………
drawing and photograph by Jeffrey Meyer
I wonder if any of those bags has a copy of Shrek 2 on DVD. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f5Hqy9lMiUDanzig in a Danzig shirt buying kittie supplies.
Just floating this out there.
Danzig always struck me as more a dog person, I’ll be honest.
yeah i thought he would have like a wolf or something.
!!! DANZIG
his step has seen fresher days
