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ofp: (via Kawanabe Kyosai: Daikoku and others, from the series...

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:19:14 -0500

(via Kawanabe Kyosai: Daikoku and others, from the series A Children’s Handbook of String Pictures (Kyokumusubi osana tehon) - Museum of Fine Arts - Ukiyo-e Search)

Some of The Unthinkable Mind Students and their final...

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:31:14 -0500

Some of The Unthinkable Mind Students and their final projects.

Photographed at The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery on May 13, 2013 by Angela Richardson

Bootsy Collins explains it.

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:47:00 -0500

Bootsy Collins explains it.

Video

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:33:37 -0500

Is that Scrounge who is over there putting quarters in the...

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:22:00 -0500

Is that Scrounge who is over there putting quarters in the jukebox?

Oh TWO FOR ONE RAIL DRINKS for as long as this one plays!...

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:19:34 -0500

Oh TWO FOR ONE RAIL DRINKS for as long as this one plays! Welcome to The Near Sighted Monkey Lounge!

medicalschool: Image of the Week: Microscopic view of lung...

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:02:22 -0500

medicalschool:

Image of the Week: Microscopic view of lung surfactant

This microscopic image of lung surfactant, a lipid-protein material that reduces surface tension in the lung and aids in proper pulmonary function, could easily be mistaken for a whimsical textile print. A recent issue of Biomedical Beat provides more information about the fanciful designs represented in the image and how they may offer insights into developing new methods for drug delivery:

Using microscopy techniques, the researchers captured a snapshot of the changes that occur (black) when surfactant molecules are stressed by carbon nanoparticles. The scientists found that if inhaled, carbon nanoparticles could influence the function of the main lipid component of surfactant. A likely gateway for nanoparticles to enter the body is through the lungs, so this and future studies may help scientists improve drug delivery methods.

Photo by University of Kansas State

Now playing on The Near-Sighted Monkey Lounge Juke...

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:57:38 -0500

Now playing on The Near-Sighted Monkey Lounge Juke Box.

vigorton2:

THE CARIB BEATS - El Bang Bang (1966)

ffactory: Norman Mailer’s character timeline for Harlot’s Ghost...

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:56:47 -0500

ffactory:

Norman Mailer’s character timeline for Harlot’s Ghost [via]

We sincerely LOVE the newscasters.

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:48:00 -0500

We sincerely LOVE the newscasters.

Oh who EVER put this on the Near-Sighted Monkey Lounge juke box...

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:44:44 -0500

Oh who EVER put this on the Near-Sighted Monkey Lounge juke box just now— thank you

soulmusicsongs:

I’m Gonna Cry (If You Quit Me) - Barrett Strong (Whirlwind / I’m Gonna Cry (If You Quit Me, 1960)

Photo

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:25:10 -0500

Images from The Unthinkable Mind’s Ebony “Frontal...

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:22:00 -0500

Images from The Unthinkable Mind’s Ebony “Frontal Lobe” Flowers’ final project which was an illustrated collection of short autobiographical stories.

kronstadt21: Boogeymen - part of a series of eerie stereoviews...

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:03:38 -0500

kronstadt21:

Boogeymen - part of a series of eerie stereoviews - dated 1923 (Via)

Before we understand our hands are a part of our body, they seem...

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:53:00 -0500

Before we understand our hands are a part of our body, they seem to be independent creatures that interact with us somehow. Here the hand and the baby are still figuring each other out by interacting. The mother laughs, the baby comes out of what seems to be a state of creative concentration into awareness of something else, sees her mother watching her, looks a little startled, then laughs and turns her face away.

What just happened?

Why does it remind me so much of being snapped out of my groove when I’m writing?

Unthinkable Mind Student, Natalie DeCheck [AKA Brain Stem] with...

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:26:00 -0500

Unthinkable Mind Student, Natalie DeCheck [AKA Brain Stem] with her book in the form of a board game. She’s graduating this week with a major in both genetics and creative writing.

Students in The Unthinkable Mind wrote over 40,000 words this semester, by hand, and drew hundreds of pictures, but everyone in the class knows that Natalie went beyond all expectations, and this is why Professor Old Skull has crowned her class valedictorian. Because. She. Is. AWESOME.

Photo by “What It Is” alum, Angela Richardson

Meet the man voted “Mr. May” down here in The...

Wed, 15 May 2013 22:30:33 -0500

Meet the man voted “Mr. May” down here in The Near-Sighted Monkey Lounge…

Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the super fluidity of super cooled liquid helium, as well as work in particle physics (he proposed the Parton model). For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman was a joint recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965, together with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga. Feynman developed a widely used pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions governing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams

SOURCE

soulmusicsongs: Coming On Strong Staying Long - The Sensational...

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:01:28 -0500

soulmusicsongs:

Coming On Strong Staying Long - The Sensational Five (Coming On Strong Staying Long / It’s Hard Out Here, 1968)

BEFORE YOU PRESS PLAY HEED THIS WARNING If you already suspect...

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:27:00 -0500

BEFORE YOU PRESS PLAY HEED THIS WARNING If you already suspect that a video that features an Oberlin student rapping about masturbation might be offensive to sensitive souls, and you feel you have one, do not click play.

Here is a happy song about chronic masturbation by one of The Near-Sighted Monkey’s Oberlin God-Student cartoonists Sam Szabo. Other god-students and members of the Oberlin Comics Collective are in this video as well and Auntie Monkey-Glasses is so glad to see them supporting their cartoonist brother in his musical time of need.

brainbooger:

SPECIAL RAP ANNOUNCEMENT******************

I am very proud and very ashamed to present the new music video from my shame-rap masterpiece, “The Chronic Masturbator.” Directed by Gabe Freed and Max Mueller. Not for the faint of heart. Musical psychotherapy for the soul.

Unthinkable Mind Student Medulla Oblongata / Jake Kelley’s...

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:18:00 -0500

Unthinkable Mind Student Medulla Oblongata / Jake Kelley’s final project, an illustrated story written by hand in tiny letters on one large sheet of paper. The book comes with a large magnifying glass. The story made Professor Old Skull cry.

Photo by Angela Richardson at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery