# life: apropos of blink, blinking, blinken ... a weird revisited

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1593 - crudeli diletti

Nota sulle fonti che narrano di tonfi /

per tilt da sfinto neuroLipide /

Di crudeli diletti d' ipnoLift /

amplificati da serialita' di pettidi microTifoni /

Inflitti alle stipole /

nel poplite d' oplite da dipinti folletti /

Bizzarri fermEnti con ciglia a guisa d' aviogetti.     11.19 16/02/2004

'Lo spirito a cui si fa riferimento nel canto e' Warrana, un Essere mitico che si aggira sul Lago Eyre ...'. 'Si presenta come un mulinello di vento e sono visibili solo le sopracciglia'. In: G. Englaro. 'Canti degli aborigeni australiani'. Oscar Mondadori (1998), p.171.

inchingolo gm at 12:05 AM

Monday, July 04, 2005

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1593 - crudeli diletti (quasi-stochastic poetry). Notes. Jul 04, 2005. ️

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/2005/07/1593-crudeli-diletti.html

Words

'sfinti', 's-finti', 'finti', 'finto'  https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/finto

oppure 'sfinti" (rumeno)  https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/emile-cioran

'pettidi'  https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/ricerca/pettidi 

'stipola', 'stipole'  https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/stipola

'poplite'  https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/ricerca/poplite

'oplite'   https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/oplite

'ciglia'  https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/ciglia

Also

keyword 'revisited' in FonT

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=revisited

keywords: ciglia, blink, blinking, blinked, poetry, quasi-stochastic poetry

# s-chem: a viscoelastic tongue with reversible saliva (spit and softness) to hang on to the next meal

<< A frog uses its whip-like tongue to snag its prey faster than a human can blink, hitting it with a force five times greater than gravity >>

<< A frog's saliva is thick and sticky during prey capture, then turns thin and watery as prey is removed inside the mouth >>

<< The tongue, which was found to be as soft as brain tissue and 10 times softer than a human's tongue, stretches and stores energy much like a spring >>

<< This combination of spit and softness is so effective that it provides the tongue 50 times greater work of adhesion than synthetic polymer materials such as sticky-hand toys >>

<< There are actually three phases (..) When the tongue first hits the insect, the saliva is almost like water and fills all the bug's crevices. Then, when the tongue snaps back, the saliva changes and becomes more viscous—thicker than honey, actually—gripping the insect for the ride back. The saliva turns watery again when the insect is sheared off inside the mouth >>

Reversible saliva allows frogs to hang on to next meal.  Jan. 31, 2017

https://m.phys.org/news/2017-01-reversible-saliva-frogs-meal.html

Alexis C.Noel, Hao-Yuan Guo, et al. Frogs use a viscoelastic tongue and non-Newtonian saliva to catch prey. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. Publ. 1 February 2017. DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2016.0764

http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/14/127/20160764

# s-brain-behav: the skill to synchronize eye-blinks

<< Magicians  use  several  techniques  to  deceive  their  audiences,  including,  for  example,  the misdirection  of  attention  and  verbal  suggestion.  We  explored  another  potential  stratagem, namely  the  relaxation  of  attention.  Participants  watched  a  video  of  a  highly  skilled  magician whilst  having  their  eye-blinks  recorded.  The  timing  of  spontaneous  eye-blinks  was  highly synchronized  across  participants.  In  addition,  the  synchronized  blinks  frequency  occurred immediately  after  a  seemingly  impossible  feat,  and  often  coincided  with  actions  that  the  magician wanted  to  conceal  from  the  audience.  Given  that  blinking  is  associated  with  the  relaxation  of attention,  these  findings  suggest  that  blinking  plays  an  important  role  in  the  perception  of  magic, and  that  magicians  may  utilize  blinking  and  the  relaxation  of  attention  to  hide  certain  secret actions. >>

Wiseman  RJ,  Nakano  T. Blink  and  you’ll  miss  it:  the  role  of  blinking  in  the perception  of  magic  tricks. PeerJ4:e1873 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1873

https://peerj.com/articles/1873/