Kitchen Wear And Tear

Crochet, Kitchen, Maintenance, Tools, ,

DSC07486 These kitchen brushes have seen better days, and have been replaced.  Their new counterparts have slightly different properties from these, so these have remained in service.  The bottle brush has to go, though, because it made a rusty scratch on something I was cleaning.DSC07487 These nylon crocheted scrubbies,  the left one old, and the right, red one new, last for a long time, and are truly versatile.DSC07488  This crocheted dishcloth adds a bright spot, and will probably last about a year, as worked into my kitchen wash routine.

Maintenance is required  by way of replacement of these common kitchen tools.

Boiled Egg Hot Water Kills Weeds In Sidewalk Cracks

Environment, Useful stuff, Weeds,

DSC07464 I poured this very hot water from hard-boiling eggs on the small weeds growing in the sidewalk cracks.DSC07466    This is the wet sidewalk after the pan of hot water was emptied on it.  I’ve done this before.   This measure has helped to keep the weeds under control in an environmentally friendly way.   Hot water has a very targeted herbicidal effect, instead of herbicides!

 

Anger, The Amygdalae, Basal Ganglia, and Prefrontal Cortex

Brain, Feeling, Science, , , , , ,

Amygdalae, the basal ganglia, and the brain diagram.  The diagram is from this link.

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There are two amygdalae, one on each side of the brain, each attached to a basal ganglion, one on each side of the brain.

The amygdala exists in the brain as two almond shaped organs, referred in their plural  as amygdalae.  They  receive all kinds of internal and sensory inputs, on which they quickly perform pain-related pattern recognition, and assemble “combinatorial memories of pain-related patterns”.

This statement  from Gerry Vassar’s online article, The Amygdala & Emotions , also tells us that the amygdala makes this pattern perception within 20  milliseconds (msec), whereas we are aware of the associated perception within 300 milliseconds.  A psychiatric neuropharmacologist,  (Personal communication, 2015) said that parts of the brain recognize  inputs within 33 msec.  The unchecked amygdala produces ” quick and dirty — knee jerk responses”, fight or flight, which can be quieted by the rest of the basal ganglion of which it is a part.  My psychiatric neuropharmacologist source  also said that

“we generally think of the prefrontal cortex as being the main modulator of the amygdala, although those signals may travel through the basal ganglia first…  ”

(  Anger is one of the responses of the brain.   The speed with which the amygdala reacts to incoming information explains the speed with which we get angry.

The rest of Vassar’s article contains very interesting, rich and concise information about the brain, which is useful to anyone on a  personal level.

The patterns representing the danger are already present in brain.  I think of all patterns in the brain as sets of “mind points”, my own descriptive term.  I am happy to have some anatomical and functional information to integrate with what I already know from my general experience.

One of my grandmothers said that the way to have a good, long, healthy,  or positive life was to “Keep your feet warm, and your head cool.”  I have to control my amygdala in order to do that.