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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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knowing that the past tense of "hang" is "hanged" when it's a method of execution can be very entertaining because you'll be watching a horror movie and someone goes "local legend says a woman was hung in these woods" and you're like "👀 good for her I guess"
PSA to fan creators who don't have a lot of regular contact with children: They are almost always bigger than you think. A 1-year-old baby may already be walking. A toddler is likely already hip-high. A 10-year-old may already be taller than at least one of their parents. A 14/15 year old may already have reached their adult height.
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Here's the link. It was actually not immediately easy to find, so I thought this might help.
this sounds like a party to me
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That moment when you’re reading a fic and your OTP finally hooks up
That gif is literally perfect
#I reblogged this in 2013
this tag dealt me psychic damage thanks
#i’m putting it in the queue to give you psychic damage again later#your post is old enough to be in middle school
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#saturation diving!!!#sending some to an from the bottom of the ocean takes forever if you have to acclimate to the pressure and then depressurize every time#so it’s much cheaper and faster to have a handful of very very brave people just stay pressurized for days or weeks straight#and then do a big depressurization at the end#it’s pretty terrifying and to my understanding wildly dangerous but it’s pretty much the only way to maintain#all that critical undersea infrastructure without an actual army of deep sea divers
Terrifying doesn't begin to describe it! I'm sure there are some wild side effects from being at that pressure and breathing heliox, but nevermind that, he said he's been down there for 23 days! How do they eat and sleep?? Do they have a submersible down there with them that allows them to get out of the suit? I can't imagine how you'd do that otherwise.
I am not an expert but I do know that sometimes they keep them on the surface but in a pressurized habitat, so that they can comfortably decompress slowly, and also so they have a place to live in between dives without depressurizing. Just living in a home that is artificially pressurized to be like the ocean floor, so you can go back to the ocean floor faster with no problems.
Honestly saturation divers (termed is because they keep them at the pressure, so the blood saturations are different) (that's why they are breathing heliox, oxygen behaves differently down there so surface air wouldn't work for oxygenating the blood) are equivalent to astronauts to me. Highly trained, incredibly brave engineers and scientists, living in artificial conditions in places that are supposed to kill them.
Please listen to this baby tapir CHEEP and maybe all your sorrows will go away for a precious moment 🩷🩷🩷
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Am enthralled by this visualization NASA shared of Artemis II's path through space. The most mathematically accurate little dance. <3
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I will always reblog this.
I once spent three hours scouring the internet to find this comic again, I will not let that be repeated.
Am enthralled by this visualization NASA shared of Artemis II's path through space. The most mathematically accurate little dance. <3
imagine. That is literally a really complex math equation, and then hardware built to enact that math equation with EXTREME precision.
Dude, if i was on that thing? i'd be checking the whole time, like, "hey, so, are we still exactly where the math said we should be? going the speed everyone predicted? okay, coolcoolcool. uh. How bout now?"
hold on, hold on. Our earth, okay, is following our sun, right, so we're doing this through space
and they are doing THAT slingshot and return maneuver while everything is doing what the gif shows, only the distances are unimaginably vast. And they are just. In a fancy tin can that we exploded up off the earth into space on the strength of our certainty we understand some very complex physics equations.
it's wild
sometimes an american will be talking to you and they start throwing around numbers like 70 or 90 when talking about the weather and you just have to smile and nod
For anyone who hasn't seen them before, Hidden Search Operators are handy tricks you can use when you're either searching or filtering AO3.
summary: string is a generic way of explaining that you can search AO3 for a specific word that appears in a summary. You can do this from the search bar in the header, from the Any Field box at the top of the Advanced Search form, or from the Search Within Results box at the bottom of the filter menu.
Examples:
summary: Bruce
summary: "Bruce Banner"
summary: Bruce OR summary: Banner OR summary: Hulk
You need to put quotation marks around your search term if it is more than one word. The quotes make sure that the site searches for those two words together.
The other two operators listed work best in the Search Within Results box.
expected_number_of_chapters: 1 will return results where every fic has only 1 chapter currently posted.
You can use expected_number_of_chapters: -1 if you want results where every fic has more than 1 chapter currently posted.
otp:true will return results where there is only 1 relationship tag on the fic. If you want results where there are 2+ relationship tags (and no fics with only 1 relationship tag) then you can use otp:false
This page is so beautiful and honestly I hope it reaches and helps any new people that are just starting out on Ao3 because it's helping me and I’ve been using the site for 5+ years now
Buzz Aldrin punching a moon landing denier in the face at the age of 72. Lol.
This video has been almost completely scrubbed off the internet because the loser who got decked keeps suing everyone. Luckily for you guys EYE have a copy of the video! :)
In honor of the Artemis 2 launch!!! Suck it crazies in the chat yelling about how NASA is using AI!!!
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thank you yes, I did need this today