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Scroll through the gallery below to see some photos that may trigger your latent trypophobia.My editor tasked me with investigating what causes this bizarre and irrational fear, which I had never heard of before.
It turns out that I’m not alone. I contacted roughly 10 psychologists for this story, and of those who got back to me, none had heard of it. The evolutionary psychologists I emailed were unwilling to speculate on the potential biological underpinnings for a fear of small, clustered holes. Trypophobia is not an official phobia recognized in scientific literature. For many (though perhaps not all) who have it, it’s probably not even a real phobia, which the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders says must interfere “significantly with the person’s normal routine.” Having just looked at a bunch of holey pictures and videos, I’m severely grossed out, but I can still write this story.
Although this may be of no comfort to those who suffer from it, trypophobia is simply one of an infinite number of fears that people experience, some more idiosyncratic than others. The online Phobia List, run by an amateur etymologist, contains the names of hundreds of fears, from the well-known (fear of heights: acrophobia) to the fringe (fear of the great mole rat: zemmiphobia). Trypophobia hasn’t made the list yet.
According to Martin Antony, a psychologist at Ryerson University in Toronto, past-president of the Canadian Psychological Association and author of The Anti-Anxiety Workbook, with the exception of a few terms (agoraphobia, claustrophobia and arachnophobia among them), professionals who study and treat phobias tend not to use all the Latin and Greek names that get tossed around on message boards and in the press.
Antony wasn’t surprised to hear that some people have an intense aversion to clustered holes because “people can be afraid of absolutely anything.” The factors that contribute to fears and phobias include traumatic experiences (getting bitten by a dog leading to a fear of dogs, for example), observational learning (watching others be afraid of heights), information and instruction (learning to fear being alone in the dark after watching too many horror movies), and various biological factors (like an inherited predisposition to anxiety). “Although the studies on causes of fears have all focused on more common ones, such as spiders and snakes, there is no reason to think that different factors would be responsible for more unusual fears, Antony says.
One trypophobic reported on Facebook that her fear stems back to childhood, when she had a Renaissance Faire dagger with a handle covered in little holes. Another member wrote: “I was stung by a bee in high school on my outer thigh. I had an allergic reaction, and my skin started to swell. The swelling was so bad, I could see each individual pore on my leg and I freaked out. Since then, I have not been able to look at clusters of holes without getting the heebie-jeebies.” Just. Gross.
Fear and disgust often go hand in hand, Antony says. “Evolutionarily speaking, almost all of the things that arouse a strong disgust-reaction–spiders, mice, blood, vomit–are things that could have been triggers for fear of illness.” Perhaps the same could be true for little holes, especially in natural objects where they seem particularly out of place. I suspect that we’re disgusted by pockmarked objects because they don’t look quite “right”; these perceived deformities signal danger, which we manifest as revulsion. But then again, a fear of asymmetry (another form of things looking not quite right) in some people with obsessive-compulsive disorder is not associated with disgust, Antony says. Perhaps holes, particularly in organic objects, subconsciously remind us of the symptoms of contagious illnesses that affect the skin, such as the rash or blisters associated with measles and chicken pox, respectively. All of this, of course, is speculation, and just goes to show how little we know about trypophobia.
Masai Andrews hopes that will change. Andrews, who runs chúng tôi founded the Facebook group page in 2009 when he was a sociology minor at SUNY-Albany. “I started the website and Facebook page because I suspected this was a very common phobia and I wanted a place where people could compile information,” Andrews says. “It is my hope that one day the academic and scientific communities will, at the very least, acknowledge the aversion to holes and certain patterns.”
When that happens, a Wikipedia page dedicated to the fear should follow. Surprisingly, one doesn’t exist today. “I can barely keep a page up on the subject without it getting taken down,” Andrews says. In March 2009 the powers that be at Wikipedia determined trypophobia to be a “likely hoax and borderline patent nonsense.” The deletion page also says that Wikipedia is “not for things made up one day.” As for who actually made the word up, that distinction probably belongs to a blogger in Ireland named Louise, Andrews says. According to an archived Geocities page, Louise settled on “trypophobia” (Greek for “boring holes” + “fear”) after corresponding with a representative at the Oxford English Dictionary. Louise, Andrews and trypophobia Facebook group members have petitioned the dictionary to include the word. The term will need to be used for years and have multiple petitions and scholarly references before the dictionary accepts it, Andrews says. I, for one, would prefer to forget about it forever.
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Tracking A Viral War In Real Time
But at the microscopic level, the battle is complicated. A number of different immune cell types are involved in the campaign served with the purpose of killing the opponent without doing too much damage to the surrounding cells. Researchers have been examining this process for decades and have gained some understanding of the art of this war.
Most research has been accomplished in the laboratory through indirect analysis of molecules such as cytokines, reactive oxygen species, and antibodies. But visually, there has been a gap in knowledge. Though we may know how the immune system responds over the course of an infection, finding a way to see the fight in real time has been difficult at best.
Now that elusive goal may be possible. A group of American researchers have found a method to observe the viral war in the mouse. Their efforts have provided a glimpse of the strategy the immune system uses to fight an infection as well as offered perspective on why it takes so long to rid ourselves of one particular viral invader.
Influenza virus Source: Wikipedia
The area of the mouse chosen for visualization was the trachea. This was found to be accessible through non-fatal surgery and provided the right translucent properties necessary for real-time imaging. In addition, opening up this area allowed for the use of a ventilator to maintain oxygen levels in the animal.
The virus chosen was influenzavirus. Although this virus primarily infects the lung, the trachea is also at risk for invasion. Influenza also is one of the most common viral pathogens of humans suggesting the technique could have value in understanding how humans deal with infection.
The cell is known as a CD8+ T-cell – or CTL – and it is responsible for producing toxins and other molecules capable of killing infected cells. These cells are known to migrate throughout the body and tend to gather when a virus is detected. But what happens during the fight has been a bit of a mystery.
When the team ran the experiments, they were greeted with no surprises. As expected, when the virus was introduced into the trachea, infection initiated. To get to the real heart of the battle, the team waited for five days while the infection took hold. At this point, the CTLs were migrating toward the attack area meaning the fight was about to get interesting.
By Day 7, the movement of CTLs slowed significantly. The cells had reached their destination and were beginning the assault. The engagement in battle was apparent on Day 8. The cells moved in short bursts, going from cell to cell finding the infected victims and killing them off. The troops were moving in a coordinated fashion making sure to leave no stone unturned. The virus was most certainly doomed in this area.
As the cells gained ground, movement in the local region increased. On Day 9, the cells were highly motile but remained in the confined area. This suggested the campaign had moved from the direct battle to surveillance. This continued for several days as the cells maintained their hold on the area. The only difference, however, was the state of attack. The cells began to calm in their activity. By Day 14, they were arrested. They had done their job and were ready for some rest.
With the campaign visualized, the team wished to learn one more aspect to the wartime strategy. They lowered the dose of the virus and wanted to see if there would be less infiltration of immune cells. Their theory was partly correct. In two of the three tests, there were fewer immune cells. But this wasn’t absolute, suggesting the immune response may be affected but not driven by the virus.
For the authors, this study represented the first step in understanding how the immune system reacts to a virus. For the most part, the CTLs acted as expected. They swarmed the area, fought off the attack, and then maintained their position long after the threat had dissipated. The results gained from years of molecular study had been given credence through this visual means.
Of course, CTLs are only one part of the immune response. There are many other cell types involved in fighting off a virus and their contribution does play a role in battle. For the authors, this information is just waiting to be found in future studies. As these roles become visually clear, we will have a much better understanding of how our immunity responds to a viral threat. We may also be able to use this information to develop better treatments to help fight off this all too common infection.
The Social Media Tax Is Real And Yes, You Should Be Pissed
How would you like to pay taxes on your social media usage? You’re either laughing right now, or are getting angered by the sheer audacity with which I asked you that question.
Social Media Tax: The What and The WhySo what is the Social Media Tax? Simply speaking, Ugandans will now have to pay a daily sum of 200 Ugandan Shillings (roughly equivalent to 5 cents, or Rs. 3) to access a whole host of websites (some of which aren’t really social media websites at all).
A tax, that by no metric makes any sense, and is as weird in its reasoning as it is in its inception in the first place.
Here are some of the reasons the Ugandan President offered for this tax, and why he thinks its only fair for the people to pay it. As reported by BBC, back in March, the Ugandan President complained to the Finance Minister of the country about online gossip and suggested that a tax be introduced to “cope with consequences.”
He also said on Twitter, “[Social media is a] luxury by those who are enjoying themselves or those who are malicious…all the moral reasons are in favor of that tax.” I just wonder if he paid the 200 Shillings in tax or not.
He further added that Ugandan social media users were “endlessly donating money to foreign telephone companies through chatting or even lying.”
Needless to say, none of the reasons make any sort of sense. For one, governments don’t really ‘cope with the consequences’ of online gossip. Especially not in a country with an internet penetration percentage of 22% by World Bank’s 2023 estimates. For another, claiming that social media is a luxury, and for those who are malicious is rather baseless. In today’s day and age, social media is one of the most used services on the internet. These reasons given by the Ugandan President are clearly not for the good of the country or the economy, but for the President to maintain his reign over the country without having to deal with his citizen’s disapproval of his policies.
Human Rights, Net Neutrality, This Tax Screws Everything Over— NTV UGANDA (@ntvuganda) July 3, 2023
Those saying 200/- is little money or that VPNs cost more forget that people are not protesting the amount being paid, but the principle behind taxing every little thing from an already suffering economy so a corrupt government can get even more money to steal.#SocialMediaTax
— Wilfred Businge (@MrBusinge) June 30, 2023
— UGAMAN 🔱 (@Ugaman01) July 2, 2023
The Ugandan President, who thinks that social media is being used by people to spread lies and gossip, is clearly trying to trample on the voice of dissent in a country that has struggled with a corrupt government for years on end.
What’s more, the Ugandan government is also being blamed by many for breaking the laws of net neutrality by levying taxes on social media websites.
Social Media Tax in PerspectiveLet me put things into a little bit of perspective. According to the World Bank, Uganda’s Gross National Income for 2023 is $600. If a person is paying 5 cents a day for social media, they’ll end up paying approximately $18 a year. That’s 3% of the GNI.
In India, the GNI for 2023 is $1820. 3% of that is $54.6 which is roughly equivalent to Rs. 3,740. Every year. Just for accessing social media. By the way, that’s on top of the money you’re paying for internet access anyway.
SEE ALSO: Net Neutrality is Dead in The US With “Restoring Internet Freedom” Taking Effect
What Can You Do, and Why You Should Do ItFor people in Uganda, there aren’t many viable options left right now. While you can use VPN services to get around the tax, the Ugandan government and telecom companies have already started blocking a number of VPNs in the country. However, there are a huge number of VPN services out there, so if one service gets blocked out, you can always switch to another. You can take a look at our list of VPNs to avoid Uganda’s social media tax, and use the internet tax-free while you still can.
So go ahead and raise your voice against the Social Media Tax. After all, the more number of people protesting this baseless, totally stupid and hostile tax, the more pressure it’ll put on the Ugandan government, and the faster we can expect this tax to go away.
Net neutrality is already dead in the US, let’s not let the world devolve into this absolute shitstorm now.
An Architect’s Review On Real
© Cherylene M. Shangpliang
Enscape is a real-time rendering and virtual reality software plugin that enables architects, designers, and architectural firms to produce quick and realistic architectural visualizations and 3D walkthroughs to communicate their design concepts and ideas effectively within their teams and to clients alike. With the cutting-edge technology that Enscape provides, users of the software plugin can easily navigate within its seamless and user-friendly interface to inform the design process quickly and intuitively to generate instant and easily achievable realistic renders creating the most value for designers.
Enscape Features & Highlights 1. Interoperability with other design software© Cherylene M. Shangpliang
Enscape integrates directly into the design software improving the design development phase, unlike other rendering programs which are isolated or disconnected from the design process.
Enscape works in parallel with Rhino, Revit, SketchUp, Archicad, and Vectorworks while being able to inform the design process and produce realistic images and videos in a short period.
A key feature in Enscape is the Live Updates feature which permits the design program and the 3D visualization to work side-by-side, facilitating changes made to the project to instantly appear in the Enscape render.
Another key feature is the synchronization of Enscape’s camera position with changes made to Rhino’s camera position. This enables the user to visualize and produce a realistic render of their design model while maintaining the same camera position.
2. User-Friendly Interface with instant resultsEnscape’s User Interface is worth mentioning as it is simple, easy to use and learn, and straightforward offering a wide range of tools enabling architects and designers to easily navigate and make adjustments efficiently to produce professional and impressive visualizations.
3. Vast Asset Library© Cherylene M. Shangpliang
Enscape offers an easy-to-navigate Asset Library consisting of a vast array of assets that can be accessed both from the Enscape toolbar in Rhino as well as the Enscape viewport user interface toolbar.
4. Built-In Material LibraryEnscape comes with a concise Material library allowing the user to choose from a wide selection of predefined realistic materials. Each Enscape material comes with its attributes which include texture map, displacement, and reflection map which when added to the design model intensifies and strengthens the design making the render look very realistic.
With its Material Editor integrated with Rhino, Enscape enables the import of materials where the user can assign the material directly to a surface or object and can edit and modify the material. Enscape recognizes the default Rhino native materials from the design model and enables the user to replace them with the predefined materials from the Enscape material library.
5. Elevating the design by adding Site context© Cherylene M. Shangpliang
A new feature in the updated Enscape version 3.3 is the ability to introduce site context and surroundings to the design model which can further enhance the design and streamline the workflow.
6. Visual settings in Real-Time© Cherylene M. Shangpliang
The Enscape Visual Settings tab consists of a variety of Custom Presets related to Sun Location, Sky, and Time as well as Environment Customization. Enscape provides the ability to render the image in various rendering styles allowing the user to experiment in real-time and produce either realistic or conceptual and diagrammatic renders.
Adjusting the Field of View and the Depth of Field can enhance the image from a photographic perspective adding more realism to the scene. Other visual settings include Image Enhancing features like saturation, contrast, and other image-correction effects.
The Atmosphere and Sky category enable the user to control the overall illumination of the scene including sun and sky brightness, adjust the artificial lights in the scene, and control the density and variety of clouds making the architectural render as realistic as possible.
7. Rapid Output generationEnscape’s real-time rendering feature has enabled architects and designers to quickly produce high-quality images and visuals in a few seconds allowing more time to design. The image resolution and aspect ratio are defined in the Output settings tab while also enabling the image to be exported with its object ID, material ID, and other attributes.
An interesting feature that comes with the new Enscape version update is the Alpha Channel Export. It is now possible to render an image with a transparent background which can further enable post-processing to achieve the desired result or effect. This is attained in the Output tab of Enscape’s Visual Settings by saving the image as a PNG file format with the ‘Apply Alpha Channel’ box ticked.
8. Creating walk-throughs in Enscape with Video Editor© Cherylene M. Shangpliang
An important feature of Enscape is also the ability to create realistic video walk-throughs and animations of a design model quickly and easily. With its speed and rapid performance, Enscape’s Video Editor allows for the creation of video paths by adding keyframes at desired scenes. There are additional settings like time of the day, duration of the movement, camera field of view, and camera position that can be toggled with to achieve the desired video path.
With all its features and benefits, Enscape has quickly become a popular rendering engine among architectural firms and studios because of its ability to create ultra-realistic visualizations in a short amount of time. Enscape is a reliable and quick rendering plugin tool to use simultaneously with the design software during the design process. It is a great tool for architects and designers to expand their boundaries, accelerate their workflows and communicate their concepts and designs effectively and effortlessly, saving them a lot of time.
9. How it works with other software© Enscape
As mentioned before Enscape is an industry-leading real-time rendering and virtual reality plugin for Revit, SketchUp, Rhino, Vectorworks, and Archicad.
9.1. Autodesk RevitAutodesk Revit is a building information modeling software that allows users to create 3D models of buildings and structures. It is a popular tool among AEC professionals and is used by architects, landscape architects, engineers, designers, and contractors.
Enscape rendering in Revit allows you to design and visualize with the same tool. Within Revit, you can easily create 3D renders, video walkthroughs, and test ideas. Because of the real-time sync, there is no need to import or export files.
9.2. SketchupEnscape is a SketchUp real-time render plugin that allows you to quickly create stunning, realistic renderings from within your favorite modeling software. Also, 85 of the top 100 architectural firms already use it.
Enscape plugs directly into SketchUp, allowing you to create a SketchUp rendering and even explore your design in virtual reality without switching to another tool or exporting or importing any files and that’s why it is very popular in the AEC industry.
9.3. Rhino 3DEnscape as a Rhino render plugin is an excellent choice for users who want to improve their designs without interfering with their daily workflows. It is an excellent tool for communicating ideas and concepts to clients, customers, and colleagues by providing the most immediate rendering results and immersive experiences.
9.4. ArchicadEnscape is an excellent 3D rendering program for Archicad. Enscape allows users to interact with their projects as if they were already built, with photorealistic renders and 3D walkthroughs.
Sign up for a free 14-day trial or update to the latest 3.4 version of Enscape to experience real-time rendering.
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Mobile applications allow players to access games from anywhere in the world without sitting at a desk and spinning the reels on a desktop or laptop. The developers who create such games need to use HTML5 technology, which helps them develop lag-free games.
Luckily, you can find a range of providers that offer such games in almost any casino online. All you have to do is pick your favourite theme or category, and you’ll be good to go.
How Iot Impacts Commercial Real Estate?
How IoT Enhances Commercial Real Estate?
Since IoT has essentially impacted real estate, we will investigate more to perceive how IoT further develops the business real estate industry. We should find out what sorcery IoT performs to get an enormous change in an area as tremendous as real estate.
Higher Resale Esteem Monitoring the EnergySmart sensors, fans, and machines assist the directors with checking the room and tracking, assuming that the apparatuses are working pointlessly. It saves a ton of energy and, at last, outcomes in a decrease in energy bills.
Improved ExperienceThe general client experience will undoubtedly improve when innovation enters the image. The Web of Things will further develop the general client experience with instruments and techniques that distinguish air quality, regular light, warmth, and house lighting.
Improves the Working EnvironmentIoT is known for continuously putting away a huge measure of information; subsequently, savvy IoT frameworks and innovation can be utilized for working environment streamlining. IoT empowers sorting out where the workers are investing the most energy and keeps up with the representative’s efficiency.
Stocks TrackingIt becomes hard for enormous real estate organizations to monitor unrefined components like concrete, concrete blocks, and so on as they are put away in mass. IoT empowers smooth tracking of these materials with the least to zero mistakes.
Advantages
The IoT empowers faster networks and the most extreme mechanization of different activities.
Carrying out smart IoT gadgets in real estate expands the resale worth of properties.
Smart technology in IoT brings about a more effective structure for the executives and upkeep.
Smart real estate with IoT innovation brings about more effective land on the board and maintains a strategic distance from postponements and shocks.
Utilizing IoT saves realtors time and exertion as they can work with numerous areas.
Applications Air Conditioning EffectivenessIoT has changed our way of dealing with warming, ventilation, and cooling. IoT gadgets can examine and discuss information with other brilliant gadgets to screen and develop frameworks. IoT gadgets can change temperatures and ventilation by room instead of binding together the whole framework, saving land owners and chiefs energy and utility expenses.
Work Environment and Work Process ImprovementIoR dissects applicable data progressively so that occupants and building proprietors can grasp their functional requirements and expenses. For instance, IoT frameworks can follow staff areas and developments to distinguish where workers invest most of their energy over the day. With this data, inhabitants can decrease functional expenses, and building proprietors might decide to rent the unused space to another occupant. Shrewd administration frameworks can likewise assist organizations with recognizing bottlenecks and further developing their floor plans for the greatest productivity.
Lighting Productivity Upgraded Inhabitant ExperienceHaving the option to follow significant data and patterns in your structure isn’t only valuable for building proprietors yet occupants too! Not in the least do IoT gadgets give more open working or living conditions for representatives or occupants, yet they likewise offer other support arrangements that make life simpler. These could incorporate associated surveillance cameras, savvy lifts that limit holding up times, gathering room planning gadgets, and parking area sensors that find open spots!
Air Quality ImprovementBy executing an interest control ventilation framework, you can screen CO2 levels, temperature, moistness, and residue to recognize any harmfulness and further develop the indoor air nature of your space.
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