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She got the idea for the study while walking with her advisor at Stanford to discuss her thesis topic, and the paper she eventually published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology in 2014 is sharp enough that it should have ended the seated meeting on the day it came out.
She ran 4 experiments on 176 people. Same person tested twice. Once sitting, once walking. The creativity tasks were the standard ones psychologists have used for decades to measure how good a brain is at generating novel useful ideas.
81% of participants in the first experiment produced more creative ideas while walking than while sitting. In the second experiment, 88%. In the third, 100%. Every single person walked into a more creative version of themselves. On average, people generated 60% more novel useful ideas the moment their legs started moving.
The skeptical question is the obvious one. Maybe it was the fresh air. Maybe it was the scenery passing by. Maybe it was the change of environment doing the work, not the walking itself.
Oppezzo killed every one of those explanations with one experimental decision. She put people on a treadmill facing a blank wall. No scenery. No fresh air. No environmental change. Just legs moving in place while staring at white drywall. The 60% boost held.
Then she ran the experiment that closed the case completely. She took participants outside in two conditions. Half of them walked through a Stanford courtyard. The other half were pushed through the exact same courtyard in a wheelchair. Same outdoor stimulation. Same scenery passing at the same speed. The only difference was whether the legs were moving.
The walkers produced dramatically more novel high-quality ideas than the wheelchair group. The outdoors did almost nothing on its own. The walking did everything.
She also tested the opposite kind of thinking. Convergent thinking. The kind where there is one right answer and you have to narrow down to it. Word puzzles where 3 words share a hidden fourth word that connects them. The seated participants did slightly better on these. Walkers got slightly worse.
Walking is not a general intelligence enhancer. It does one specific thing. It opens up the divergent search inside your brain. The part that generates options. The part that produces unexpected connections. The part that takes a problem and finds five ways into it instead of one.
When you need to converge on the single right answer, sit down. When you need to find the answer in the first place, get up.
The mechanism is now well understood. Walking selectively activates what neuroscientists call the default mode network, the system inside your brain that runs when you are not consciously focused on anything. The DMN is where mind-wandering happens. Where memories cross-reference each other. Where ideas that have been sitting in separate folders inside your head finally bump into each other.
When you sit at a desk and force yourself to concentrate, you suppress the DMN. When you walk at a natural pace, the executive part of your brain gets just busy enough handling the walking that the DMN comes online and starts doing the work that focus was blocking.
The most useful finding in the entire paper is the one almost nobody quotes. The boost did not turn off the moment people stopped walking. Participants who walked first and then sat back down stayed elevated. Their next round of seated creativity work was still significantly better than people who had been sitting the whole time. The rest lingered for at least several minutes after the legs stopped moving.
You do not need to do creative work while walking. You need to walk before the creative work. The brain holds the state.
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Thinking about Lancelot removing the strands of hair from Guinevere’s comb and sniffing them. He’s a major league freak and I love that about him.
Wait, did he actually do this?
he was freakier about it than I remembered
Yes, this is Luo Yi Rong, who absolutely is the same sculptor from that astonishingly inept self-own by an idiot.
Amen to that little dude
When food so good you see god
Transcendent in my tummy
I have a similar reaction to good pho
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People who were on tumblr in the 2010s: did you want to go to dashcon at the time and would you still want to go if you knew what you know now
* I wanted to go to dashcon then and would still want to go if I knew
* I wanted to go to dashcon then but would not have wanted to go if I knew
* I didn’t want to go to dashcon then and I would still not have wanted to go if I knew
* I didn’t want to go to dashcon then but I would want to go if I knew
* I did go to dashcon and would still want to go if I knew
* I did go to dashcon but I would not have wanted to go if I knew
* it’s complicated
* wasn’t on 2010s tumblr
* see results
People who were on tumblr in the 2010s: did you want to go to dashcon at the time and would you still want to go if you knew what you know now
I wanted to go to dashcon then and would still want to go if I knew
I wanted to go to dashcon then but would not have wanted to go if I knew
I didn’t want to go to dashcon then and I would still not have wanted to go if
I didn’t want to go to dashcon then but I would want to go if I knew
I did go to dashcon and would still want to go if I knew
I did go to dashcon but I would not have wanted to go if I knew
it’s complicated
wasn’t on 2010s tumblr
see results
unauthorized fucking thing!!!!!!
(warning: loud chirping throughout)
source: hellgate osprey cam
More context:
the first osprey is the father, the one that comes later is the mother.
ospreys are not eagles, they're ospreys
ospreys only eat fish, that's why they don't register this starling as possible food
the starling got home safely
the starling was not trying to eat the eggs, it was mostly curious and you can see it trying to hop under the osprey every time the osprey tries to sit down again--this is because the starling is still a baby and has the instinct to get under an adult for warmth, even though it mostly has its feathers. this scares the osprey because that is a Foreign Creature near its eggs.
at the end of the video you can see the ospreys starting to turn the eggs. birds do this so the yolk and/or embryo don't stick to the shell of the egg, which is bad for the egg's health.
ospreys have eyes adapted to seeing beneath the surface of the water!
bringing this one out of the comments cause. yeah.
Gervasio Gallardo cover art to fantasy novel, Faragon Fairingay (1986).
here's a link to Ember's website, where you can download a high quality version!
https://www.betterthanember.com/
Ummm she's literally sensitive :/
happy pride month 🏳️🌈
it bugs me how many lesbians have issues with trans women. like, we're supposed to love women. what's next, you gonna start hating short people too? fuck off.
AND TRANS GUYS. "ooohhhhh they're betraying womanhood" no, they're men. jfc not everything is a personal attack some people are just guys.
reblog this version too actually
marsha p. johnson and an unidentified friend pictured at the second annual stonewall commemorative march, new york city, new york, 1971.
btw if you’re kink shaming people, I hope you know that every single person who reblogs this post and I are shaming you
i love when museums have near exact replicas of their displayed objects for you to buy. haha 15th century ceramic cup you are in my possession
Went to a museum exhibit once that had this little guy
10/10, give me tiny replicas of animal statues that I am encouraged to pat as part every exhibit ever please