If Your Friends Ever Say They Have ADHD, Just Show Them This. ADHD is about having broken filters on your perception. Normal people have a sort of mental secretary that takes the 99% of irrelevant crap that crosses their mind, and simply deletes it before they become consciously aware of it. As such, their mental workspace is like a huge clean whiteboard, ready to hold and organize useful information. ADHD people... have no such luxury. Every single thing that comes in the front door gets written directly on the whiteboard in bold, underlined red letters, no matter what it is, and no matter what has to be erased in order for it to fit. As such, if we're in the middle of some particularly important mental task, and our eye should happen to light upon... a doorknob, for instance, it's like someone burst into the room, clad in pink feathers and heralded by trumpets, screaming HEY LOOK EVERYONE, IT'S A DOORKNOB! LOOK AT IT!
It's like living in a soft rain of post-it notes. We rely heavily on routine, and 90% of the time get by on autopilot. 10 Japanese Travel Tips for Visiting America. With the help of Google Translate (and an ability to interpret completely random sentence structure), an American can find out what kind of advice the Japanese give to their own countrymen on how to handle the peculiarities of American culture. Here are some things to look out for if you are visiting America from Japan. 1. There is a thing called “Dinner Plates.” And what goes on them is a mighty disappointment. In Japan, each person eating gets as many individual dishes as needed for the meal.
Sometimes more than 10 dishes per person are used. 2. In Japan, hip hop clothes are considered stylish. 3. Manners with cars in America are really damn good. 4. In the U.S., they do not have a sense of superiority if they are able to drink a large amount. 5. In America, whether you are a student, working person, or housewife, you carefully make room for leisure time, weekdays and weekends. See Also: 4 Russian Travel Tips for Visiting America 6. 7. 8. Cashiers are slow. 9. 10.
See Also: 29 Important And Undeniable Facts You Learn In College. Ask A Physicist To Speak At Your Funeral. You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy is created in the universe and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, ever vibration, every BTU of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world.
You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid the energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got. And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. And you'll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. This is a transcript of a speech given by writer and performer Aaron Freeman on NPR News "All Things Considered". God's 12 Biggest Dick Moves in the Old Testament. Words From a Father to His Daughter (From the Makeup Aisle) | Kelly M. Flanagan. 5 Surprising Ways Your Language Affects How You Think. #2. Your Views Change With the Language You Use to Voice Them daboost/Photos.com Most of us took a second language in high school, then promptly forgot everything we learned in favor of bong-making methodology and Led Zeppelin lyrics.
But for those who stick with it and wind up fluent in another language, the language you happen to be using at the time may directly affect the outcome of the conversation. maltaguy1/Photos.comCertain foreign prisons go extra hard on you if you know only English. Recent studies have suggested that language may act as a cue to which cultural frame of reference a given interaction belongs in. For example: A test was applied to bilingual Arab Israelis who spoke both Arabic and Hebrew (two cultures that have famously held a little animosity toward each other over the years) that asked participants to record whether words had negative or positive connotations. University of MinnesotaBut fail the test in multiple languages? #1. Agsandrew/Photos.com No? Huh. The 5 Best Pieces of Writing Advice I Didn't Get in School. #2. Don't Be Consumed With Being Original (The "Ice Ice Baby" Test) I've never had writer's block for the same reason I've never had the lasagna at the Olive Garden: It just seems terrible and I don't want it.
But from about 18 to 28, I did mercilessly reject a lot of my own ideas for not being original enough. It wasn't writer's block. If you pointed a gun at my head, I could have written those ideas, but I made a decision to only write what I liked. Blake Snyder wrote a great, but sometimes maligned, screenwriting book called Save the Cat, which includes his beat sheet where he lays out the essential framework of a three-act play or movie. Who can forget that scene where Elle Woods liberated Dachau? But how do you know when you're a plagiarist and when you're doing something that merely reflects other elements while retaining your own soul? Essentially, I think sampling in music is an excellent analogy.
. #1. These Hilariously Witty Comebacks To Sexist Comments Are Perfect. 15 Remarkable Colorized Photos Will Let You Relive History. One thing we really need to thank the internet for: colorized historical photographs. Of course, the phenomenon comes to us courtesy of Photoshop and the talented editors who transformed black-and-white images into digital works of art. We're just happy we get to feast our eyes upon them. Thanks to the Reddit community known as Colorized History, we have a plethora of polychromatic snapshots that bring history back to life. Behold, 15 of the best colorized photos on the web: 1. This boy clutching a stuffed toy in 1945 London. Original Photograph by Toni Frissell. 2. Colorized by Paul Edwards 3. Colorized by Jordan J Lloyd 4. Colorized by Dana Keller 5. Colorized by Mads Madsen 6. 7. 8. Colorized by BenAfleckIsAnOkActor 9. 10. 11. 12. Colorized by Sanna Dullaway 13. 14. 15. Original Photograph by Frank Worth Photo.
All captions provided by Jordan J Lloyd. 7 Things No One Tells You About Being Homeless. #3. Your Free Time Becomes Your Enemy Stockbyte/Stockbyte/Getty Images What surprised me the most about being homeless was just how much time I had on my hands. Remember: no TV, no Internet, no video games, no inviting people over to hang out (tell you what, just make a list of how many of your leisure time activities require having a place to live). And at least I had a job -- but even then, it was one that had me working in the backcountry for a week at a time (Great! Andreas Rentz / GettyYou'd let her do it. So ... what the hell do you do with yourself? Yep, having nothing to do and nowhere to go got so stressful that I ended up finding a good source of LSD (at a shitty little dive bar), and this became my last resort for filling time. Keystone-France / Gamma-Keystone / GettyFifty-two of these is basically a year's employment!
And once again we see how a short-term problem can turn into a cycle that threatens to suck the rest of your life into it. #2. Digital Vision. #1. Why Yellow Fever Is Different than “Having a Type” Jun 03, 2013 at 6am I’m one of the many 20-something East Asian women living in the Bay Area. Because of that fact, I’ve lost count of how many guys have walked up to tell me that their ex-girlfriends are Asian. Racial pickup lines such as “Konichiwa, Hello Kitty!” Sadly have ceased to surprise me at all. Recently, a Tumblr called “Creepy White Guys” with screencaps of real messages received by Asian women from men on OkCupid rose to mainstream fame with BuzzFeed coverage.
I don’t think it’s fair to make it sound like only Caucasian men are this lame, but those particular comments definitely earn a high spot on my list of “Most Racist Things I’ve Seen This Decade.” Last year the documentary Seeking Asian Female was released by local filmmaker Debbie Lum. However, what astonishes me to this day is when some of my educated and amicable guy friends and male coworkers say that they don’t understand what’s so bad about Yellow Fever.
Race to the Bottom Kink Con. How We'll Swear in the Future. White Anti-Gay Activist Wins Election By Tricking Voters Into Thinking He’s Black. 40 Clever Life Hacks to Simplify your World. 5 Ways To Hack Your Brain Into Awesomeness. Learn More While You Sleep So say you haven't followed that first step up there and choose to continue sleeping like other mere mortals. A very minor change in your schedule can still let you use your sleep patterns to your advantage, by making you smarter. Holy Shit, How Can I Do It? No, we're not talking about those scams where they have you put a tape recorder under your pillow and let it teach you Spanish while you're asleep. Note: "Sleep on it" is simply an expression. They did a study at Harvard that proved this technique works. No, the participants who slept on it and had 24 hours for the information to fester in their brain did the best on the test, while those who only had 20 minutes did the worst.
Wasting your time, nerds, go to sleep. How Does It Work? Scientists say the ability your brain has to retain information works in three different ways: acquisition, consolidation and recall. So does this technique work with the "sleep two hours a day" system we mentioned earlier? 5 Insane Ways Words Can Control Your Mind. It Skews Your Perception of Time Picture, in your head, a timeline of your life. Your birth at one end, your death at the other, today somewhere in the middle. The night you burnt that clown's body, buried safely behind you. We're going to take a wild guess and say that you imagined that line running horizontally, your birth on your left, your death on your right. It might be enough to get you through freshman philosophy though. Mandarin speakers, on the other hand, imagine time in a vertical sense.
Now here's where it gets weird: They did an experiment at Stanford where they'd try to trip up this process by taking Mandarin speakers and having them arrange objects horizontally in a certain order, then asked them a series of time-based questions ("Does April come before or after March? "). The act of getting them thinking horizontally with the object puzzle made it harder for them to answer the time-based questions. They also often do this, whatever it is. "Late again, Sue? Whoa, what's this? HOMOSEXUALITY: LEGITIMATE ALTERNATE DEATHSTYLE (1986)
Stunning Portraits Of The World’s Remotest Tribes Before They Pass Away (46 pics) Living in a concrete box with hot water pouring from the tap, a refrigerator cooling our food and wi-fi connecting us to the rest of the world, we can barely imagine a day in a life of, say, Tsaatan people. They move 5 to 10 times per year, building huts when the temperature is -40 and herding reindeer for transportation, clothing and food. “Before They Pass Away,” a long-term project by photographer Jimmy Nelson, gives us the unique opportunity to discover more than 30 secluded and slowly vanishing tribes from all over the world.
[Read more...] Spending 2 weeks in each tribe, Jimmy became acquainted with their time-honoured traditions, joined their rituals and captured it all in a very appealing way. His detailed photographs showcase unique jewellery, hairstyles and clothing, not to forget the surroundings and cultural elements most important to each tribe, like horses for Gauchos. Source: beforethey.com Book: Amazon.com Kazakh, Mongolia Himba, Namibia Huli, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Genderqueer, Pansexual, LGBTQ: Will Gender Exist 100 Years From Now? - Rebooted. In this article it is my hope to highlight some of the most important aspects of gender and sexual identity within the confines of hardcore science: psychology, biology, and sociology.
It is my personal opinion that we have not figured out the science behind gender, rather it be sociological or biological in nature. This article is simply an overview of how modern day scientists and sociologists look at gender and sexual identity. For all I know, we are all born genderqueer and pansexual, but biological science is showing us the rainbow of diversity which comes along with being a sexually complicated evolved species.
IEET Contributor Wes Strong wrote a follow up to this essay from a social constructivist point of view. The following is an updated version of a 2010 article "Will gender exist 100 years from now, or does it already not exist? " Introduction It has been claimed by biologists that the brains of females and males are different in obscure ways. Genetics Gender Identity and the DSM. 6 Ridiculous Science Myths You Learned in Kindergarten. Right around the time we learn to start questioning the ways of this wonderful world around us, our parents start packing us onto school buses every morning, because who the hell has time for all those obnoxious questions?
Let the professionals address the budding curiosity of our children; we've got America's Next Top Model to watch. Teachers are better equipped to deal with those questions anyway, right? Right! Mostly. Teachers are people, too, and people have this nasty tendency to occasionally lob whatever untruth comes flying at them right back at somebody else like a game of bullshit ping pong. For example ... (We've got a lot more school-issued B.S. where that came from. . #6. Feng Yu/Photos.com The Myth: As soon as we learn that the Earth rotates on its axis, we learn all the cool effects that this has on our lives.
Hemera Technologies/Photos.com/GettyOn the equator, toilets don't flush at all. The Reality: #5. Jeffrey Hamilton/Digital Vision/Getty Images Digital Vision. #4. 12-year-old voting rights activist shames NC's GOP gov. on voter ID. Watch this 12-year-old voting rights activist shame NC’s GOP governor before a jam-packed crowd. Pat McCrory won’t talk with her, and called her a “prop.” Photo of the 12-year-old voting rights activist, Madison Kimrey screen-captured from Story of America‘s video. Hundreds of Moral Monday protesters jammed themselves into a crowded, outdoor ampitheater in Burlington, NC on October 28 on a chilly autumn day, reports the Times-News. Apparently, even folks in the once-blazing red Alamance County — 56.6 percent of whom voted for Mitt Romney in 2012 — don’t like the GOP’s agenda.
Or how the GOP-run state has turned down desperately-needed funds for the long-term unemployed; passed a tough new voter ID law; backed the government shutdown; refused of US government funds for expanding Medicaid; and making deep cuts to schools and other programs. 12-year-old voting rights activist lets NC Governor Pat McCrory have it. 12-year-old voting rights activist’s speech captured on video. The historical origins of Japanese women’s speech: from the secluded worlds of ”court ladies” and ”play ladies” : International Journal of the Sociology of Language. Gay Rapper Le1f Wrote An Angry Twitter Tirade About Macklemore's VMA Win. Angel Haze Finally Does Justice To Macklemore's "Same Love" Angel Haze Finally Does Justice To Macklemore's "Same Love" Listen to 2,500-year-old music brought back to life. I Love You, America, But This List Should NOT Make You Uncomfortable. This cheeky map shows what each country leads the world in. 7 Wanted Criminals Who Made Mocking Police Into an Art Form.
#3. Kevin Poulsen, Hacker to the Stars Photos.com The Crime: You may know Kevin Poulsen as a writer and editor over at Wired.com, but before that he was quite the badass hacker-turned-fugitive. At the age of 17 (in 1983, the same year that WarGames came out, not surprisingly), Kevin "Dark Dante" Poulsen used his ancient TRS-80 computer to hack into the U.S. Enlightenlists.com"Let him go; you rookies captured early '80s Nicolas Cage again. " The Audacity: Instead of laying low, Poulsen laid in on the hacking harder than ever, pulling one spectacular stunt after another. Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images News/Getty ImagesReason Number 14,381 to pay attention in computer science class.
The coup de grace came when Poulsen was featured on the show Unsolved Mysteries: The 1-800 hotline mysteriously went dead as soon as Poulsen's face appeared on the screen. Thinkstock Images/Stockbyte/Getty ImagesToo bad. 1998 was a bad year to miss. #2. USA Today No-debts.com Pictured: Crazy Enough. #1. Nathan J. Pat Buchanan Demands GOP Double Down On Govt Shutdown And Obamacare. The historical origins of Japanese women’s speech: from the secluded worlds of ”court ladies” and ”play ladies” : International Journal of the Sociology of Language. Oreos May Be As Addictive As Cocaine. ObamaCare In Plain English: What It Means For You - It’s the rapists, not the drinking: To prevent sexual assault on college campuses, focus on the perpetrators. How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses | Wired Business.
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