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Brain Potentials and Rhythms
I’m reading a book called A Laboratory Manual of Research Methods in Electrophysiology and there is a quote I want to share from the beginning of the section on Brain Potentials and Rhythms, stated by Sir Charles Sherrington, a Nobel prize winning neurophysiologist.
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Boston: One Jazzy Town
What began as a trek for lunch ultimately turned into a three hour adventure. And did I ever get to consume a delicious Subway sandwich? Well... sit tight because the plot thickens.
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The Color of Music
Can your voice be represented with a color? What would a drawing look like of an entire dance sequence? Can you taste sound?
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What's in a Name?
I got to thinking about Perspective and I began to see, or at least formulate, my place in the universe; my place in the grand scheme of things. I jotted down a quick thought to the question “What’s in my name: Zach Tribbett?” This is my attempt at an answer…
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Too Much Stuff: Cognitive Baggage
Stuff. We all have it. Sometimes we want more stuff. Other times we want to get rid of stuff. But in both cases our minds - our brains - are focusing on things, items, property; in a word, stuff.
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Putting Out the Good Vibes
We’ve all been in situations where the awkwardness was palpable; situations where we could feel bad vibes. We’ve also been in situations that were harmonious and serene; situations where we could feel good vibes. These phrases - good vibes and bad vibes - represent something fundamental to human feelings: vibrations. Well, not vibrations per se, but waves, specifically brain waves that propagate from the brain at various frequencies - various vibrations. Everything we do, every interaction we have, influences or is influenced by these waves.
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Me, Quality, and MIT
Quality has been a popular subject in my Affect: Biological, Psychological, and Social Aspects of “Feelings”* class this semester. Not just the quality of a product, or a building, or a piece of art, but also the quality of the abstract. By quality of the abstract I mean things that are difficult to “objectify” or “define,” like the quality of life or the quality of education. Up to this point, I’ve attributed the measurement of quality to objects, products, and things. I’ve now learned that those few categories are only a subset of what can be qualitatively measured. Consequently, I’m measuring the quality of most aspects of my life.
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Lend Me Your Ears!
“Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.” A canonical line said by one of history’s most courageous individuals and one literature’s most cunning characters: Mark Antony. I recently had the honor of playing the role of Mark Antony in this Spring’s MIT Shakespeare Ensemble production of Julius Caesar.
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Architecture: Dynamic Art
"Architecture." What images does that word conjure up in your mind? For me, the word _architecture_ used to conjure images of ancient columns and turrets, linked together by a network of arches and bridges. It conjured up skyscrapers, cathedrals, and concert halls. It made me think of the MIT Stata Center. But there was so much more I was missing...
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Express Yourself!
Friends, here marks the start of yet another attempt to better express myself in the blogosphere. In the past, I’ve always looked at the “blogging process” as work: something like homework or something I have to do. Consequently, my blogging lost its expressive nature.
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