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Illustrations of Vietnamese food. Credit to Le Rin.

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Ron Finley in his garden wearing a moss and succulent coat created by Melissa Meier

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Actress Yara Shahidi for AnOther Magazine

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“Me: I’m still mad at him . Vagina : IM NOT THO !!!”

— (via thesexualquotes)

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If studying doesn't help make u smarter what do you think does?

How are we defining “making you smarter” though? Are we talking about crystallized intelligence or fluid intelligence? Studying builds your crystallized intelligence for sure, and studying efficiently - making new connections, learning to use your brain in new ways - builds your fluid intelligence. In general, I view “smarter” to be synonymous with “having greater fluid intelligence” aka “having a greater capacity to make connections and use information in new ways.”

There’s actually a TED talk on this distinction in the context of Alzheimer’s that discusses the results of one study: despite grey matter loss patterns consistent with Alzheimer’s, a group of women who had been actively learning new skills and languages showed no symptoms of the disease (09:50). Basically, they had built such a vast network of synapses that there was enough redundancy in the system to make up for the loss of grey matter.

This, to me, is what something that “makes you smarter” should do. Learning a new language makes you smarter. Learning to play a new instrument makes you smarter. And studying, if you do it right, can absolutely make you smarter as long as you’re actually learning something and making those new connections in your brain. What doesn’t make you smarter is revising the same notes and material over and over without introducing new connections and new ways of thinking. A lot of people call this studying. I call it memorizing your notes to do well on a test.

Here’s another distinction. Learning makes you smarter; studying (information) makes you more knowledgeable. Again, if you’re studying efficiently you should also be learning and thus building both fluid and crystallized intelligence.

So yeah in general I’m super wary of “study groups” and “study sessions” because even here at Stanford those usually don’t include anything that actually helps people learn rather than memorize the material. I don’t like the way a lot of people study, and I tend not to call what I do “studying” because I want to promote the importance of learning in this environment where honestly it seems like a lot of people just want to pass the tests. On studyblr it’s getting better; I’m loving the influx of “how to study efficiently” posts that actually address the importance of making connections, overlearning, and thinking about concepts in new ways, & hopefully everyone who takes those to heart ends up here & demolishes our trash academic culture lmao

Idk where you got this question in the first place bc I’m pretty sure I’ve never discussed my thoughts on this here so if I’m missing something let me know~

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listen if you think someone is cool and you dig their energy you just have to tell them, because that’s the kind of stuff you remember a thousand times longer than somebody complimenting your hair or whatever. tonight I told a girl from my theory class that I like her analytical approach and she bounced back at me saying she digs my feminine energy and how she gets the vibe that, to my core, I exist to uplift women and I damn near cried. tell people what resonates about them. be real. help each other feel seen.

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I’m learning so many different ways to be quiet. There’s how I stand in the lawn, that’s one way. There’s also how I stand in the field across the street, that’s another way because I’m farther from people and therefore more likely to be alone. There’s how I don’t answer the phone, and how I sometimes like to lie down on the floor in the kitchen and pretend I’m not home when people knock.

Ada Limón, “The Quiet Machine,” from Bright Dead Things (via bostonpoetryslam)

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Sun Cat. 7 x 5 inches, oil on hardboard.

Some cute romantic-cliché questions :)

Coffee Shop: How do you take your coffee?

Train Station: Where do you want to travel?

Picnic in the Park: Do you enjoy people watching?

Kiss Under the Rain: What sounds help you sleep?

Butterflies: What unique thing would you/do you enjoy in a partner?

Snow Angels: What's your favorite kind of weather?

Bed & Breakfast: What do you like to do on Tuesdays?

Kiss at the Door: When you hold hands, do you interlock fingers? Swing your arms?

Bowling: Do you laugh loudly or giggle more?

Chocolates: What's your favorite kind of sweet thing?

Roses: Do you blush easily?

Cheesy Pick-Up Lines: Are you more of a comic or a romantic?

Candlelight: What romantic cliché do you wish for most?

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here’s some of my random spotify playlists check them out if you want they make no sense

songs that sounds like they’re from the 80s but aren’t

you make a cute new friend but you’re not sure if she’s gay and you don’t want to ruin this new friendship so you’re going to try to have fun hanging out with her while not developing any feelings

waiting rooms are liminal spaces

chill vampire tunes for ppl who just got bitten recently

soundtrack for a horror movie where the lesbian couple survive and kill the axe murderer/exorcise the demons/bust some ghosts,etc.

those kids riding on their bikes in indie movies

this one literally makes no sense if you haven’t read the basic eight i guess but i’ll put it here anyway because imo it’s good if you haven’t read it just picture a teenage girl at a party that goes very very wrong

modern songs i would put on the soundtrack of a western movie (ignore the title,,)

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…in real life, [Mary Beard] swears magnificently and often. (“She’s always spoken fluent Anglo-Saxon,” said Woolf.) […] The [Brexit] referendum then, should not be treated as the final word, she said, but as a straw vote. “Sure, say we want to leave, but you can only in the end say we are going to leave when we know what it means. Otherwise,” she said, “it’s just wanking in the dark.” Thinking I had misheard, I asked her to repeat. “Wanking in the dark,” repeated Beard, at volume.

The cult of Mary Beard, by Charlotte Higgins for The Guardian (via argonauticae)