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!
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. 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.
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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.
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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: 7 Things No One Tells You About Being Homeless.
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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. 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. 40 Clever Life Hacks to Simplify your World October 16, 2013 in Uncategorized.
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.
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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
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: Pat Buchanan Demands GOP Double Down On Govt Shutdown And Obamacare.
GOP Pundit Pat Buchanan urged Republicans to burn America to the ground rather than give up their hostage-taking tactics to defund the Affordable Care Act. 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. Photo by Corepics VOF/Shutterstock My colleague Emily Yoffe wrote in Slate on Tuesday about the alarming frequency of a certain sad news story: “a young woman, sometimes only a girl, who goes to a party and ends up being raped.”
Yoffe goes on to argue that parents, schools, and sexual assault prevention experts can help bring down the number of those incidents by telling young women to stop drinking so much. How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses. In 2009, scientists from the University of Louisville and MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences conducted a study of 48 children between the ages of 3 and 6. The kids were presented with a toy that could squeak, play notes, and reflect images, among other things. This map of gender segregation shows how New Yorkers live and die. Seth Godin's 16 Insights On Money. Louise Slaughter Gets Pete Sessions To Admit That The Republicans Stripped The Democrats Of Their Ability To Call A Vote To Open The Government. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) questions Pete Sessions (R-TX) about why a small group of Republicans have taken away the right of any member of Congress to call a vote–which are normal rules of the House.
Under regular order ANY member can call for a vote on a Senate proposal but you have changed that regular order under this resolution so that only the majority leader can do it. Gamers solve decade old HIV puzzle in ten days. Scientists from University of Washington have been struggling for the past decade to decipher the complex structure of an enzyme that exhibits behavior similar to that of an enzyme key in the development of AIDS from an HIV infection, and which might hold a critical role in building a cure for the disease. Gamers playing spatial game Foldit have managed to collectively determine the enzyme’s structure in ten days.
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