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Curious what is actually normal for bed time. Go for your normal/average time, not your most extreme or what you wish it was.
what time do you go to bed? (local time)
7pm or before
8pm
9pm
10pm
11pm
12am
1am
2am or after
it's never consistent
some other time entirely
I just don't know what grownups do for bedtime and I want to know!!!
that's not his name!!
A doll youtuber I watch has made a video about the history of Polly Pocket, and she's describing the plots of the dvd specials, one of which features an elderly woman named Ms. Throckmorton, and my reaction was
I was scanning some art today, and I realized that I never shared this piece! This one wasn't for a project, it was just for fun - and so of course I had to fill it with lots of stars and clouds
I'm so normal about this movie that I did this in 3 days with a total of 10 hours of sleep. If you know this song you know it s time to bring out the tissues.
Song is The Cave by Mumford and Sons
it sucks that even todo lists get affected by the adhd 'absorption of stationary objects into their environment thus leading to effective invisibility' thing
yeah my to-do list is empty. what do you mean "what about those five items?" those are just part of the ui obviously
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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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Grace: OK ok. Don't panic. The three astropahge cells Stratt gave me have jumped off the slide but all I have to do is black out all the lights and find where they are with thermal goggles. It's going to be ok.
Astrophage: Grace lung perfec t size for put asteophage in to grow! inside very Soft and Comfort astrophage grow slowly put astrophage in Grace lung. Put astrophage In Grace Lung. no problems ever in Grace Lung because good Carbon and Organic Compounds for CO2 hungry full of big solar light intracellular fluid. AGrace Lung yes a place for a astrophage put astrophage in Grace Lung can trust Grace for giveing good CO2 to astrophage. friend Grace
I don’t tend to ship strattland romantically but also I wholeheartedly believe that if she didn’t send him to space she’d marry him so he can’t testify against her
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YES. ALL OF THIS. THIS IS MY FAVORITE AU
we were talking the other day about this in the sense of like. stratt plans it in advance because she wants it to seem believable and she still thinks dubois or shapiro are the ones going, so theyre already married by the time she sends grace on the hail mary. which means he wakes up with a ring on his finger and no memory of his marriage. its SUCH a fun concept. it makes me so so so happy
love that everyone is discussing strattland being weirdos with friends. group activity
“there’s a suit in the car” i raise you @the-tardis-is-blue ‘s suggestions from our convo about it:
not gonna say it again!!!!
a BOG is a wetland that is acidic
a FEN is a wetland that is alkaline
FINALLY someone said it!!!!!!!
a SWAMP is a wetland whose vegetation consists of trees or other woody plants
a MARSH is a wetland with other forms of vegetation
#A LITTLE LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK
a MANGAL is a swamp whose soil concentrates high amounts of salt and very low amounts of oxygen, supporting little else than mangrove trees
a PEATLAND is a wetland whose soil concentrates decaying organic matter, becoming peat
Oh yeah baby, keep coming at me with watery environmental states
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We are happy to finally reveal our cover for Your Heartbeat, My Signal! Drawn by the lovely @melonnabar! Preorders will officially launch on June 8th to July 8th! More details very soon!
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He’s leaky and old, like pick a struggle (part 1)
I’ve been kicking around a thought lately that when it comes to SFF we could probably bypass some of the perennial political vs. apolitical vs. everything-is-political-apolitical-storytelling-doesn’t-exist by instead formulating a spectrum from politically coherent to politically incoherent
Essentially, politically coherent works are works where the political message of the story is supported by all (or at least most) of the major story elements, and a politically incoherent work is a story where the political messages of different elements are seemingly all shooting off on different vectors.
The nice thing about this is it can bypass authorial intent (and the discussion of whether intent matters). This is about the text.
Like, politically incoherent works that had no authorial thought behind them are a dime a dozen of course, and politically coherent works that clearly had a lot of authorial thought are if not equally common than at least easy to spot. But there are also plenty of works that are politically coherent without the author intending them that way—like, whatever faults there are with Project Hail Mary, the overall opinion the book has about the nature of humanity & of science is consistent throughout. Likewise there are stories where the authors clearly meant a coherent political point and totally wiffed it. (The works @specialagentartemis has collectively termed “cozy colonialism” come to mind)
So there’s a utility in replacing the question “is this story political?” (Yes, always, but if the answer is always yes the question becomes kinda useless) with “Is this story politically coherent?” Because a yes or no there will tell a prospective reader something about what to expect.
Bookriot 100 Must-Read Sci-Fi Fantasy Novels By Female Authors Bookriot 100 Must-Read Sci-Fi Fantasy Novels By Female Authors
ok let's do another one! this time we have Bookriot's 100 sci-fi fantasy novels by female authors.
just to pre-empt a few possible objections to the list, it was published in 2016 and:
JK Rowling's public transphobia downward spiral began in 2018.
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, Martha Wells) was published in 2017 and Gideon the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir) was published in 2019.
The Fifth Season (NK Jemisin) was published in 2015 & given that the editor included a different NK Jemisin I presume Fifth Season simply hadn't hit all-time classic status yet.
The editor stated upfront that they included 1 book per author.
I have no idea what We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson) is doing there given that it categorically is not SFF.
How many of Bookriot's 100 sci-fi fantasy novels by female authors have you read?
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Some personal recommendations to add onto this list, if you want more authors that aren't listed here:
A Woman of the Iron People by Eleanor Arnason. Readers in the Le Guin-Leckie continuum will find a lot to enjoy in Arnason's work, like this dual narrative about an inhabitant of a planet entering its Iron Age making first contact with an anthropologist from a socialist Earth.
Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott. Pitch-perfect '90s cyberpunk about the breakup of a lesbian relationship where one hacker continues to live on the margins of cybercrime while her ex goes corporate.
The Mount by Carol Emshwiller. A goofy but sincere story from the perspective of a man who's been raised to be ridden like a horse by the small alien race that's taken over Earth.
The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard. A twist on the Holmes/Watson dynamic of solving mysteries in a culturally Vietnamese space empire, where in this case the Watson's a traumatized sentient spaceship.
The Killing Gift by Bari Wood. If Shirley Jackson made that list, Wood deserves to be here as well. A underrated horror gem about a woman whose social and economic privilege shields her from the consequences of her disquieting supernatural abilities.
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker Martin. Another great horror title that explores a what-if premise that could be a huge fumble in the wrong hands - "what if anyone with too much testosterone is vulnerable to a monstrous transformation at the hands of a plague" - and makes it an invigorating, gut-wrenching touchdown.
Cyteen by C.J. Cherryh. Surprised there's no Cherryh on this list, since she's very prolific and there are a lot of fun entry points. I recommend this one if you like reading about complex relationship dynamics on a terraforming planet, and characters thrust into some of the most existentially horrifying conundrums I've ever read.
The Past is Red by Catherynne M. Valente. A really refreshing post-apocalyptic novel with a Voltaire-like flavor. Can't wait to find more from Valente, who thankfully has plenty of short stories to explore.
