Tuesday, April 20, 2010

JFK vs Obama: Editorial Cartoon maze by Yonatan Frimer

Editorial Maze Cartoon - JFK vs Obama on NASA
JFK vs Obama on NASA
Editoral Cartoon Maze in Larger and Printable Format
Can't solve the maze? Click here for the maze solution
Editorial Cartoon Maze contrasting JFK to Obama on the issue of travelling to the moon and NASA.

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Monday, April 19, 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Editorial cartoons on the middle east, Obamacare and Iran

***For Immediate Release***

April 19, 2010 - Tel Aviv, Israel - Cartoonist Yonatan Frimer has released a handful of editorial cartoons to help drum up publicity of his upcoming book. These cartoons may be published for no charge for editorial purposes.

Each of the cartoons is actually also a solvable maze, making them one of the few "interactive" forms of media that can be printed in traditional newspapers.

The cartoons can be viewed and downloaded at http://teamofmonkeys.com/press

About Team Of Monkeys
Team Of Monkeys is a cartoon created by Yonatan Frimer and RSL, two highly creative professionals that have made a living by poking fun at the ironies of society. In addition to carrying a complex message within the cartoons, each of the images is also a solvable maze, a feature that makes them ideal for reversing the declining market share of traditional newspapers. Both Frimer and RSL are based in Israel and have conflicting political views, making them able to cater to both the left, center and right political leanings.

Contact:
Yonatan Frimer, Cartoonist
email:yfrimer@yahoo.com
phone: +972-545-683-040
URL: http://teamofmonkeys.com/press

Monday, April 5, 2010

Editorial Maze Reform: Political mazes by Yonatan Frimer and RSL

Political Maze on Health-care Reform
Political Cartoon Maze Obama Healthcare pill thats is hard  to swallow
Political Cartoon Maze - Obamacare

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Political Maze Iranian Regime Puppets
Political  Cartoon Maze Iranian Puppet Regime
Political Cartoon Iranian Regime
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Political maze cartoon of the Iranian supreme leader Ali Hoseyni Khāmene’i
using his team of monkeys to control a puppet baring the likeness of Mahmoud ahmadinejad, the current president of Iran.

Arrows mark the entrance and exit of the maze.


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Political Maze Cartoon of Gaze Situation
Political maze  cartoon of gaza situation
Political Maze Cartoon of Gaze Situation
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Monkeys depicting the Palestinians aim arms, guns and rockets at a giant sleeping monkeys marked as Israeli. The overall message of the cartoon is that the Palestinians are going to wake a sleeping giant.



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Editorial Maze Cartoon of Gaza Guns and Butter
Editorial  maze cartoon of gaza guns and butter
Guns and Butter in Gaza
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Monkeys depicting the Palestinians aim arms, guns and rockets at a giant sleeping monkeys marked as Israeli. The overall message of the cartoon is that the Palestinians are going to wake a sleeping giant.



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Friday, March 12, 2010

Brain replays control decision-making process

Replaying recent events in the hippocampus of the brain has more to do with active decision-making process than with creating long-term memories, according to a new study.

Conducted by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Minnesota Medical School, the study of rats navigating a maze found that replays occurring in the hippocampus were not necessarily recent or frequent paths through the maze, as would be expected if the event was being added to memory.

On the other hand, the replays often were paths that the rats had rarely taken or, in some cases, had never taken, as if the rats were trying to build maps to help them make better navigation decisions.

Dr. Anoopum Gupta, and his colleagues said that their findings suggest replays in the hippocampus are not merely passive echoes of past events, but part of a complex, active process of decision-making.

"Our work provides clues into how animals construct a complete, fully navigable representation of their environment, even if they’ve only partially explored that environment. The cognitive maps created in this way may allow animals to plan novel routes or shortcuts. As we learn more about the neural mechanisms that enable animals to flexibly navigate through the world, we hope to apply those lessons to research in robotics that could improve autonomous navigation systems," said Gupta.

The team used electrode ‘hats’ to record brain activity of rats as they navigated a maze. In particular, they monitored certain neurons, called place cells, which fire in response to physical locations.

That enabled the researchers to identify where an event that was being replayed was located based on which place cells were firing.

During an experiment, a rat might be in one portion of the maze, while the firing of place cells in the hippocampus indicated that the rat was replaying information about a different location.

On a task with two behavioral sequences, A and B, the researchers found that the animals would replay sequence B more often though they spent most of their time running sequence A.

This meant that the rats were most likely to replay the path they had experienced less often, which indicated that replay is not just a function of helping an animal remember what it has experienced most frequently or most recently, but an important function in helping it map its whole environment.

During the replay process, the research team also was able to observe the animal making connections between paths that it had never physically traveled before.

This further suggested that replay plays a role in helping an animal learn and maintain the entire map of its environment and make connections within it.

The rats were not just reviewing recent experience to move it to long-term memory.

The study was published in the journal Neuron.

Want to test the theory, try solving some of these mazes, created by Yonatan Frimer
The maze entrances and exits are marked by arrows.


Maze of the statue of david, by Yonatan Frimer
maze of david by michaelangelomaze of Michalangelo's david statue of marble in italy
Maze Portrait Of Michalangelo's David

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Maze portrait of Madonna, by Yonatan Frimer
Madonna Ciccone Portrait Maze

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Maze portrait of Lilly Allen, by Yonatan Frimer
Maze of Lily Allen
Maze of Lily Allen


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Freemason Monkeys -
Illuminati's building a wall
- Maze
freemason monkeys - illuminati apes
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Monkeys For Justice - Team Of Monkeys Judicial Panel
Monkey judges, justic, courtroom, sternographers
Monkey Judges Maze:
"Trained to dispense justice in even the most difficult legal cases"
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