#stuff i'm learning

[thriftedspacesuit]

Wow, this is some fucked up shit. In the 1960s these guys did experiments on dogs where they shocked them and offered or didn't offer various means of escape in order to demonstrate the trauma response and a thing called learned helplessness.

Apparently the traumatized dogs just straight up wouldn't escape even when the opportunity was right in front of them, because they had been conditioned to believe that nothing they did would alleviate their suffering. The only way they learned to escape was if the researchers physically picked them up and moved their legs for them. Rewards / positive reinforcement didn't have any effect after the trauma of the shocks.

Fucked up experiment but it really says a lot about the trauma response.

[thriftedspacesuit]

Ahhhhh I just found out there are planets that orbit pulsars, space is so cool! (Artist rendering courtesy of NASA)

[thriftedspacesuit]

Just learned that making future plans is an executive function, no wonder I'm so bad at it lmao

[thriftedspacesuit]

~page design is my passion~

[thriftedspacesuit]

Fuck it I'm reading this article in simple english, physics is hard

[brayraab]

As a teenager,it makes me really happy when an adult asks me what my passions are. If you are ever with a young kid and don't really know how to talk to them just ask them what they like to do. The fact that someone is actually interested in hearing about something that we really care about means a lot to us.

[coffeeforthemoon]

Stop looking for other people to do something, all you have to do is search within you.

[chelsieautumn]

If you're waiting for other people to make you feel free, stop. No matter how far you go and how much you try to be rid of it, people will always shackle you and it’s not their fault. You shackle people too. We compete and we feel threatened and we jealously guard what we deem ‘ours’ - our talents, our friends, our knowledge - and we get angry when we’re one upped and we hurt when others don’t see us the way we want to be seen and it’s all just a mess. But this is life. Stop being angry at everybody and choose to love anyway. Stop guarding and protecting and worrying and be free in spite of who’s watching and who’s caring and who’s doing it better, and miraculously and beautifully, you'll set others free too.