Hidden Fluorescent Colors of the Oceans, by Louise Murray (via Telegraph, BoingBoing)
Polaroid returns with a pocket camera that prints (via Gadling)
![Rare Ansel Adams Print of Great Smoky Mountains National Park (via National Parks Traveler)
A rare shot of Great Smoky Mountains National Park taken by Ansel Adams shortly after World War II has been acquired by a Knoxville, Tennessee, museum….
The Knoxville Museum of Art was able to acquire Dawn, Autumn Forest, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, 1948, which was taken by Mr. Adams as part of his work on a Guggenheim Fellowship to document America’s national parks and monuments. The trip to the Smokies was reportedly his first and only visit to Tennessee.
While Yosemite National Park offered the photographer dazzling waterfalls, granite domes, and shimmering lakes for his cameras, the Smokies were a bit more challenging for him.
“The Smokys [sic] are OK in their way, but they are going to be devilish hard to photograph…,” he wrote a friend in October 1948.](http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuo40kLTJk1qzv83eo1_400.jpg)
Rare Ansel Adams Print of Great Smoky Mountains National Park (via National Parks Traveler)
A rare shot of Great Smoky Mountains National Park taken by Ansel Adams shortly after World War II has been acquired by a Knoxville, Tennessee, museum….
The Knoxville Museum of Art was able to acquire Dawn, Autumn Forest, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, 1948, which was taken by Mr. Adams as part of his work on a Guggenheim Fellowship to document America’s national parks and monuments. The trip to the Smokies was reportedly his first and only visit to Tennessee.
While Yosemite National Park offered the photographer dazzling waterfalls, granite domes, and shimmering lakes for his cameras, the Smokies were a bit more challenging for him.
“The Smokys [sic] are OK in their way, but they are going to be devilish hard to photograph…,” he wrote a friend in October 1948.
Leaping Wolf Snatches Photo Prize (via BBC News)
Atlantic Puffins - A Photo from my recent trip to Machias Seal Island off the coast of Maine.
Hello Toronto! I’m in town for the APA conference (yes, the American Psychological Association is having its annual meeting in Canada).
Check out my photos from when I was in Toronto this past December.
Also, here’s what I’ll be presenting:
BACKGROUND: Systemic exposure to amphetamine (AMPH) leads to a number of long-lasting neuroadaptations including changes in dendritic morphology in rat forebrain. It remains unknown whether these changes relate to associative drug conditioning or to nonassociative drug sensitization, two forms of plasticity produced by systemic exposure to AMPH. METHODS: We compared the behavioral, neuronal, and morphologic consequences of exposing rats to intraperitoneal (IP) AMPH to those of exposure to AMPH applied to the ventral tegmental area (VTA), infusions that sensitize AMPH-induced locomotion and nucleus accumbens (NAcc) DA overflow but do not produce drug conditioning. RESULTS: Both IP and VTA AMPH exposure sensitized locomotion and NAcc DA overflow, but only IP AMPH exposure produced conditioned locomotion. Importantly, whereas IP AMPH exposure increased spine density and dendritic length and branching in the NAcc, exposure to VTA AMPH produced the opposite effects. A similar differentiation of effects was observed in cortical areas. CONCLUSIONS: Together these findings suggest that the morphological changes seen following IP AMPH exposure reflect associative drug conditioning rather than nonassociative drug sensitization. The decreases observed in the NAcc of VTA AMPH exposed rats may reflect the inability of these infusions to support conditioning.
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