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Vitor Rua – Where The Sound Learns To Breath
https://mimirecords.bandcamp.com/album/where-the-sound-learns-to-breath

Reinhold Messner's moving message about the recent death of Nirmal Purja and ten others:
What matters is being there while that person is still alive. Listening, especially in difficult times. Staying present when someone feels lost. Sometimes the greatest gift is simply to let them speak and to be heard.
I know what it feels like to leave someone you love behind in the mountains. A pain so profound it takes your breath away.
And yet l also know that, for some, …

Reinhold Messner on Instagram: "It’s a kind gesture, and everyone grieves and remembers in their own way. What matters is being there while that person is still alive. Listening, especially in difficult times. Staying present when someone feels lost. Sometimes the greatest gift is simply to let them speak and to be heard. I know what it feels like to leave someone you love behind in the mountains. A pain so profound it takes your breath away. And yet I also know that, for some, there is a quiet comfort in knowing they were in the place they loved most, doing what gave their life meaning. My thoughts are with all the families, friends, and everyone who loved them. Pls remember a human being is never an object. A life is measured by presence, not by tributes. #thinking #memories #"
97K likes, 854 comments - reinholdmessner_official on August 2, 2026: "It’s a kind gesture, and everyone grieves and remembers in their own way. What matters is being there while that person is still alive. Listening, especially in difficult times. Staying present when someone feels lost. Sometimes the greatest gift is simply to let them speak and to be heard. I know what it feels like to leave someone you love behind in the mountains. A pain so profound it takes your breath away. And yet I …

Vitor Rua – Where The Sound Learns To Breath
https://mimirecords.bandcamp.com/album/where-the-sound-learns-to-breath

MIT engineers have developed a test to detect disease-related compounds in a patient’s breath.
The new test could provide a faster way to diagnose pneumonia and other lung conditions.
Rather than sit for a chest X-ray or wait hours for a lab result,
a patient may one day take a breath test and get a diagnosis within minutes.
The new breath test is a portable, chip-scale sensor
that traps and detects synthetic compounds, or “biomarkers,” of disease, which are in…

New sensor sniffs out pneumonia on a patient’s breath
“PlasmoSniff” is a new sensor that can detect disease-related compounds in a patient’s breath. Developed at MIT, it could provide a faster way to diagnose pneumonia and other lung conditions.

#ThrashMetal 🤘
https://gallower.bandcamp.com/track/bubonic-breath

Based on daily values, the July average of atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa was ~429.1 ppm. That's "only" 1.2 ppm higher than last year. But don't hold your breath: the upcoming El Niño will probably speed up the increase again.

Tony Romo DUI video released: Bodycam shows altercation and arrest https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/07/29/new-video-shows-cowboys-tony-romo-dui-arrest-refusal-of-brea…

Back in the country for less than 24 hours and we've already voted. Now if only we could imagine a world in which a non-Liberal could one day win our riding in a regular election. This time, of course, it's a by-election on the last day in August, so I'm not holding my breath.
#cdnpoli

By the middle of this week, insurgent progressive Democrats may have defeated establishment candidates in two vital primaries,
for a Senate seat in Michigan and the governorship of Wisconsin.
If and when that happens, the elite news media will overflow with
“Dems in Disarray!” stories,
and the the centrist Democrats who have been issuing dark warnings about their party’s left turn will be in a full-blown panic.
Those centrists need to take a deep breath, settle…

Moderate Democrats have a choice to make
Do they want to help their party win, or do they want to whine about the left?

You have to rest. There are industrial buildings on the opposite bank---abandoned granaries and silos---but they're so rain-rusted and sun-bleached, they have their own charm, like public sculptures. When you've recovered your breath, we continue.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
Vazz:
🎵 Breath
#Vazz
https://standalonerecords.bandcamp.com/track/breath
https://open.spotify.com/track/6OzUQEJo6vvLWDsOuw9k3D

"“There is that sense of theatre with fire and flames,” says Jeremy Pang, a third-generation Chinese chef in London and founder of the School of Wok. “It feels quite traditional and exciting. But we have found that we can get just as high temperatures, and just as good cooking, with electric.”
The secret to traditional Chinese cookery lies in the “wok hei” – literally, the breath of the wok, meaning the smoke and heat that the chef must master, to give all ingredients the right de…

The chefs turning down the heat by switching from gas to electric
As well as being quieter, cheaper to run and easier to clean, induction cookers can cut kitchen temperatures by up to 10C

"“There is that sense of theatre with fire and flames,” says Jeremy Pang, a third-generation Chinese chef in London and founder of the School of Wok. “It feels quite traditional and exciting. But we have found that we can get just as high temperatures, and just as good cooking, with electric.”
The secret to traditional Chinese cookery lies in the “wok hei” – literally, the breath of the wok, meaning the smoke and heat that the chef must master, to give all ingredients the right de…

The chefs turning down the heat by switching from gas to electric
As well as being quieter, cheaper to run and easier to clean, induction cookers can cut kitchen temperatures by up to 10C

I think I know why "sad trombone" (and any melody that descends like that) is sad .
I was awake listening to my wife snore and, as her breath slowed down (she must have been going into a deeper sleep phase), the pitch of the snore got lower and lower.
What if we instinctively associate decreasing pitch with person's breath slowing down, eventually to stop?

Had an #acting #coaching client do a take focusing on one aim, then do a take focusing on a different aim, then, for a third take, had them split the difference and it was beautiful to see them do the scene with that greater breath to it. Sometimes finding the pieces builds the whole well.

The Quiet Place (2024)
(Actually only half true. More up close, glaciers are full of the most amazing sounds... yet from this distance, higher up, all you can hear is the wind and your own breath/heartbeat...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

Theory: the rise of YouTube gamers has kind of ruined new games, especially sequels.
Nintendo saw countless hours of YouTubers horsing around in Breath of the Wild, so they made a sequel built entirely about horsing around in the same world with a bunch of goofy sandbox toys, rather than giving us a proper adventure/exploration/puzzle game.
Team Cherry saw YouTubers get incredibly skilled at precision combat in Hollow Knight, so they made Silksong all about precision…

Donald Trump is planning to hit the campaign trail for 32 days before the midterm elections.
That would put the president on the campaign trail for more than 94 percent of the time between now and November 3,
effectively placing him at the center of an election cycle in which Republican candidates have increasingly tried to peel away from his influence.
The breakneck pace of the schedule has also spurred health concerns for a president who was recently caught out of breath af…

Trump, 80, Unveils Midterm Plan That Will Surely Make Him Pass Out
Donald Trump intends to travel almost every day until the election.

harbaugh out of breath kills me 😂 @Twisted Tea #michigan #ohiostate https://www.tiktok.com/@annieagar5/video/7

Raiders veteran CB carted off field during preseason game vs Texans https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/08/20/raiders-cb-chigozie-anuseum-injured-carted-off-…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#20thCenturyRadicals
- Betsy Jolas: language, breath, and living sound
Gillian Moore explores the organic aliveness of the music of Betsy Jolas, with a focus on her 1977 trumpet concerto Onze Lieder.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002p7cp

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Bill Callahan:
🎵 Baby's Breath (6 Music Session, 13 Apr 2011)
#BillCallahan
https://billcallahan.bandcamp.com/track/babys-breath
https://open.spotify.com/track/2vawTCalxdUOK7OQPwTLyw

🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
The Police:
🎵 Every Breath You Take
#NowPlaying #ThePolice
https://open.spotify.com/track/4U3Ggqyv2XgnS1u82HOGQX

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Stones Taro:
🎵 Breath Twice
#StonesTaro
https://instinctrecs.bandcamp.com/track/breath-twice
https://open.spotify.com/track/7llnemutp1Uw5MMLHvggrN

breath and breadth

Post-Perseids Sunrise At Raisting Earth Station (2026)
(Pictures from between 5-6AM this morning... I still need to process the meteor shower images from the hour before, but not holding my breath...)
#LandscapePhotography #RadioTelescope

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Police:
🎵 Every Breath You Take
#ThePolice
https://ericfaria.bandcamp.com/track/the-police-every-breath-you-take-eric-faria-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/4U3Ggqyv2XgnS1u82HOGQX

#today I have done some admin and may do some research (but don't hold your breath - I dodged it yesterday).
Tomorrow I will be in the scrum to try to buy #GreenMan #GreenMan2027 tickets!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MidnightInAPerfectWorld
Stones Taro:
🎵 Obscured Breath
#StonesTaro
https://stonestaro.bandcamp.com/track/obscured-breath
https://open.spotify.com/track/1NVsEm8Of082v2nUEb45Nd

As someone who reveres Programming Pearls, to even be mentioned in a related breath by one of our greatest programmers is…more of an honor than anything on a CV. Going to call it a day and go out for a ride. (-:

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Stones Taro:
🎵 Breath Twice
#StonesTaro
https://instinctrecs.bandcamp.com/track/breath-twice
https://open.spotify.com/track/7llnemutp1Uw5MMLHvggrN

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Pearl Jam:
🎵 Breath
#NowPlaying #PearlJam
https://open.spotify.com/track/6i81qFkru6Kj1IEsB7KNp2

Thoughtseeds as Latent Causes: A Dual-Process Computational Phenomenology of Focused-Attention Meditation
Prakash Chandra Kavi, Daniel Ari Friedman, Gustavo Patow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.14833 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.14833 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.14833
arXiv:2607.14833v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Meditative expertise involves sustained attention, rapid recovery from distraction, and coordinated dynamics of large-scale brain networks. We present a computational phenomenology of focused-attention meditation traversing four attractor states: breath focus, mind-wandering, meta-awareness, and redirect attention. Within a dual-process active inference formulation, the model implements a three-layer nested Markov-blanket architecture: (L1) a high-dimensional physiological neuronal substrate modeled as a stochastic multivariate Ornstein--Uhlenbeck process over attentional Yeo networks; (L2) a low-dimensional generative model (System 1) that encodes latent mental content as thoughtseeds and evaluates autonomic action tendencies; and (L3) an agentic metacognitive monitor (System 2) that implements a Global Neuronal Workspace (GNW) capacity bottleneck to selectively gate these tendencies. In L3, meta-awareness functions as the GNW ignition signal, derived from policy-prior divergence and dynamically gated by direct competition between orchestrator and distractor thoughtseeds. Policy selection actively minimizes expected free energy, and L2 actions furnish descending predictions over network activity to close the enactive perception--action cycle. Training uses variational Expectation-Maximization (EM) across expert and novice phenotypes. Simulations reproduce behavior consistent with empirical observations and findings in contemplative neuroscience, providing a tractable link between first-person phenomenology and objective neurophysiological measures.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Pearl Jam:
🎵 Breath
#PearlJam
https://open.spotify.com/track/6i81qFkru6Kj1IEsB7KNp2

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Confidence Man:
🎵 Catch My Breath
#ConfidenceMan
https://confidenceman.bandcamp.com/track/catch-my-breath
https://open.spotify.com/track/1kXjMWq4nCa2mbNMTz3sbg

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Destiny’s Child:
🎵 Lose My Breath (Maurice's Nu Soul Mix)
#DestinysChild
https://tfrankdj.bandcamp.com/track/destiny-s-child-lose-my-breath-tfrank-dj
https://open.spotify.com/track/4dvQg9sD8k9y4qiEURuj8v

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #BBCProms
Joseph Parry & David Roche:
🎵 Divine Breath (Awen)
#JosephParry #DavidRoche

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Pearl Jam:
🎵 Breath
#PearlJam
https://open.spotify.com/track/6i81qFkru6Kj1IEsB7KNp2

#JasonBrooks
S10E17 "Breath of Life"
#BaywatchHawaii #RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch #BaywatchStuds #Sexy #HotMen #Hunks #Lifeguard #Rescue #Hero #Stud #BreathOfLife

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MorningShow
Pearl Jam:
🎵 Breath
#PearlJam
https://open.spotify.com/track/6i81qFkru6Kj1IEsB7KNp2

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PacificNotions
Six Missing & Yannick Lowack:
🎵 A Breath
#SixMissing #YannickLowack
https://sixmissing.bandcamp.com/track/a-breath
https://open.spotify.com/track/2szn1nICYUqOgXFj6HvPKi

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MiddayShow
Pink Breath of Heaven:
🎵 The Wind Is Calling
#PinkBreathofHeaven
https://pinkbreathofheaven.bandcamp.com/track/the-wind-is-calling
https://open.spotify.com/track/48sM5Mw26q8pQV77tKEmXF
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/55kiq57r1ErxcYnr6B3P6g
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #PacificNotions
Tides:
🎵 Breath Again
#Tides