is called your hippocampus that's where you actually uh organize all your memories the islands in area called the insula the stress box we'll be talking a lot about today is called the amydala and the pleasure box is called thenucleus cment but basically your emotion brain is controlled your stress system it's
That thing he's working on is a cylinder of aluminum, weighing a ton-and-a-half or a couple of tons, suspended, insulated in a vacuum tube. It has piezoelectric crystals glued to its surface, which will sense any slight vibration
And no one could land this airplane. insulation of today. Of course, all these partners providing this, testing it with us are putting it on the market.
it I mean now for about six or seven years Germany has had a program insulating 5% or or bringing 5% of the homes in the country every year up to high efficiency standards helping people to to cut their total energy use now again you know it's not going to work
yes thank you oh thank insulation company they have Windows that have only one tenth the heat loss of other other other uh Chinese guy other loss and he said that I talked to
Cass has the letter on him right now baring the insignia of Veritas, zippered into an inside pocket of his parka, insulating him against the cold. The night is so frigid that everything seems to have been stripped bare of superfluous existence, reduced to the purity of abstraction.
extreme moderation. And that in this world of abundance, what we really need to do is to create a world within a world, where we're essentially insulating ourselves to the constant titillation and invitations to consume. In many ways, where we have arrived today is the dark side of capitalism.
But the ways in which we could be helpful to them would be-- or the advice I would offer them would depend on what the heavy insulation. It's one of the most environmentally friendly pieces we make.
Sorry if I'm embarrassing you, Dan. The insulation materials are behind fire block wall, so before you hit the insulation you have to burn through the wall, and then at that point the insulation doesn't make
And since then, the last 10 years, there's been a lot of neuroscience on this, mainly at UCLA, where they show the same little part of the human insula , which is a walnut-shaped part of the brain in the middle of the brain. The same little part becomes active when you hold something warm and when you're texting your family and friends and when you're thinking about the people
And then we'd have a lot of leeway in terms of skin color at least in that conversation-- Pacific Islander, Native American as well. And the insula is the same part of the brain that turns on when you smell rotten garbage.
So people with strong insulas are strong in all three dimensions. It turns out the insula can be trained. It's very easy. All you have to do is to bring attention to the body.
practitioners, they actually had thicker cortical tissues in two key regions. One is the insula , that's number one, where they're tuning into their body and their deep emotions and self awareness in general. And also area number two is the executive portions of the prefrontal cortex that have to do with controlling attention.
So when drivers race, they wear a fire protective suit, which is great because it protects them in the event of a fire, but it is so insulating that it actually inhibits their ability to cool themselves through the process of evaporation. Which means once they're inside a cockpit, which can be anywhere from 100 to 130°F, they get very hot.
It's like what nature did is just discover these neural processes that allow us to build models of the world and then just repackage them And that insulation is expensive, biologically expensive, so you don't want do it everywhere.
They're very insular. So even if it's a village of 200 households, you think everybody must know each other.
But our mycelium insulation is really our star product when it comes to mycelium, and that's because of its magical qualities when it comes to insulation in comparison
So the topological insulator can do something like bismuth telluride.
What if we insulate it, it with plywood.
If a neuron is insulated, it's insulated with something we call white matter.
If a neuron is insulated with white matter, it can click along.
They're better insulated from risk in the face of drought or extreme weather events.
You get an insulating layer.
Foam plastic building insulation-- unfortunately, the materials that make buildings energy efficient-- polystyrene, polyurethane, and polyisocyanurate contain the worst flame retardants,
and this insulated world of children's books.
They are no longer insular, they have opened up to this.
We have to insulate them, seal them up, get them efficient, and put the technology on.
We put minimal insulation, actually, by modern standards, into the attic.
This book is very insular.
Sorry if I'm embarrassing you, Dan. in the insulation it's never going to be totally green.
A judge insulated from the normal occurrence of life for 25 or 30 years was a rarity then, but is becoming commonplace today, he wrote in a White House memo.
It's somewhat more insulated from the political process although not completely by any means.
Because Kyoto is extraordinarily insular.
you can take to insulate your home." This is where Opower has grown.
A third thing, surprisingly, is empathy. So people with strong insulas are strong in all three dimensions. It turns out the insula can be trained.
is either a synthetic insulation like PrimaLoft or Climashield, or a goose down, which is just a little film of goose down.
Any questions on insulation?
Skurka: More insulation at night would definitely help if you're exhausted and can't produce your own body heat.
kind of insular, I don't, I'm antisocial is what it comes down to.
fatty cells as insulation, cilia for wind loads and we, I think, we've known this before, but sphincter muscles for doors and windows. Felt that seems to be the best possible solution
sort of self insulating. So if there's like lots of people with negative emotions around you.
connections between girls insulate them psychologically from the ups and downs
The first structure is the insula , and that's where it is on the brain.
This type went into chemical-resistant insulation, shipyards, and even filters inside early gas masks.
But because there was an insulator slotted between the two sides, the electrons couldn't just jump to the positive side to balance out the charges.
This is useful for seals and insulators.
maybe they had feathers to insulate their bodies against the whims of climate change. Many other
military has become a very corrupt and insular institution that is trying to generate as much
That's good that you're insulated from that where you are.
And so you were a little insulated personally from it.