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Be like a bird ... outstretch your wings.
Begin the journey of learning something new!
🕊️ Just fly 🕊️...
as you never know where your wings will take you!!
~ Paula St L 2022 🌻
📖 PAULA'S READING NOOK! 📚
"I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
📕 What I'm reading... at the moment! 📘
Try your local library for a copy.
If the book is not available, request an inter-library loan or suggest a purchase!
Best wishes, Paula 🌻
october 2025
The Space Between Our Ears
How the brain represents visual space
By Michael J. Morgan
Find out more about the book here and the author here
"The book is not written for (or about) scientists, but if any scientists do venture inside,
they may find the following translations helpful:
Nerve cell - neuron(e)
Nerve fibre - axon
Front - anterior
Back - posterior
Top - dorsal
Bottom - ventral
Hallucinating faces with prominent teeth - Prosopometamorphosia
Exaggerated attention to shiny objects - Hyperprosessis."
~ Michael J. Morgan
Below is an excerpt from the book.
Preface: 'The Mazy Course'
"How do we see the space outside our bodies? We see a three-dimensional world in which objects such as trees and other people have definite locations, both with respect to one another and to ourselves. I take for granted what Francis Crick calls the 'astonishing hypothesis' that all our experience depends upon events in our brain - in other words, that science will one day provide a full and complete explanation of the contexts of our consciousness. But what kinds of activities could be responsible for our visual perception of space? Philosophers and neuroscientists talk about the brain containing 'representations' of the outside world - appearances in everyday life are mirror images, paintings and maps. A map represents spatial information in a condensed form. But is this the right way to think about representation of space in the brain? We don't expect to find colours or smells in the brain, so why should we expect to find maps there?
I take a cartographer's view. Maps do exist in the brain, and they are the basis for our perception of space. I side with philosophers like Berkeley and Lotze who argue that the key to understanding our experience of space is that we have to move our bodies about in it; and to do this we need maps. When we are seeing, the eye receives rays from different directions in physical space; the brain then has to produce actions located in the space from which that light originates. The earliest stage of vision involves an image in the eye, followed by a crude map at the back of the head. I think it is becoming clear that as neuroscientists follow the connection between these maps and action, they will find a succession of maps, in which the spatial element is always present and vital for the next stage."
September 2025
The Secret Lives of Colour
By Kassia St. Clair
Find out more about the book here and the author here
"The Secret Lives of Colour is not intended to be an exhaustive history.
This book is broken down into broad color families and I have included some—black, brown, and white—that are not part of the spectrum as defined by Sir Isaac Newton.
Within each family I have picked out individual shades with particularly fascinating, important, or disturbing histories. What I have tried to do is provide something between a potted history and a character sketch for the 75 shades that have intrigued me the most.
Some are artists’ colours, some are dyes, and others are almost more akin to ideas
or sociocultural creations. I hope you enjoy them."
~ Kassia St. Clair
Below is an excerpt from the book.
Chapter: Colour vision How we see
"When light enters our eyes it passes through the lenses and hits the retinas. These are at the backs of our eyeballs and are stuffed with lightsensitive cells, called rods and cones because of their respective shapes. Rods do the heavy lifting of our vision. We have about 120 million in each eye; they are incredibly sensitive and principally distinguish between light
and dark. But it is the cones that are most responsive to colour. We have far fewer of these: around six million in each retina, the majority huddled together in a small, central spot called the macula. Most people have three different types of cone, each tuned to light of different wavelengths: 440 nm, 530 nm, and 560 nm. About two-thirds of these cells are sensitive to
longer wavelengths, which means we see more of the warm colours—yellows, reds, and oranges—than the cooler colours in the spectrum. Around 4.5 percent of the world’s population are colour-blind or deficient because of faults in their cone cells. The phenomenon is not completely understood, but it is usually genetic and is more prevalent in men: around
1 in 12 men are affected compared to 1 in 200 women. For people with “normal” colour
vision, when cone cells are activated by light, they relay the information through the nerve system to the brain, which in turn interprets this as colour. This sounds straightforward,
but the interpretation stage is perhaps the most confounding."
📚 Children's Bookshelf! 📚
OCTOBER 2025
The River!
By Sally Morgan and Illustrated by Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr
You can find out more about the book here, listen to the story here
and more information can be found about the author here
"I love the river near my home.
I look with my eyes,
I listen with my ears,
I learn about the life of the river."
Above is an excerpt taken from this gorgeous book that takes the reader on a journey of what they can see and hear!
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The quote below is taken from Sally Morgan's book, My Place.
“I came to the realisation that it was impossible to change my environment. I decided to try and change myself instead.”
SEPTEMBER 2025
Thank you rain!
By Sally Morgan and Illustrated by Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr
You can find out more about the book here, listen to the story here
and more information can be found about the author here
"LOOK, the sky is changing
Rain is coming in...
pitter-patter
Raindrops are falling on tree tops.
Birds are singing in the rain.
Raindrops are wetting dry earth.
Wildflowers are blooming in the rain."
Above excerpt taken from this book that celebrates beautiful and joyful rain!
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The quote below is taken from an Interview with Sally Morgan in The Canberra Times, February 1991.
She had never had any aims in life, still doesn't.
"When you grow up like we did, you don't know what you want to do," she says.
"You don't really have any goals."
"Things wander along and if they are interesting you follow them".
But she did know she wanted to write a book about her Aboriginal history.
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