I laughed so fucking hard at this
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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.
Edited down a long tweet. (x)
this is mingus, they're one of the nost tedious projects i've ever done and also one of my favorites
i love looking at the tags on this post because most of them are just like wow what a colorful friend! and then there are the people who know what a french knot is who are freaking out
Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal perform âWhat You Ownâ at the 2021 Tony Awards
Their voices havenât changed at all in 25 years, holy shit.
you think youâre going to have a normal field trip and she shows up wyd
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Sleeping Beauty AU where the princess was born on a Leap Day, so when the evil fairy curses her to prick her finger âon her 16th birthdayâ, her family realizes thatâs not the same thing as her 16th year of life and sheâll actually be in her 60â˛s when it happens.
By the time the Royal Counsellor has finished speaking the King looks slightly less like he might faint and the Queen actually looks a little hopeful.
âAre you certain?â she pressed.
âAbsolutely,â the Counsellor assured her. âI had one of my clerks take notes during all the fairyâs speeches for the exact purpose of studying their phrasing.â
âWhat,â the King blinked. âEven the good ones?â
The counsellor sniffed. âEspecially the good ones.â
âSoâŚso we can truly argue that it is the birthday that counts and not the passing of the years?â asked the Queen, colour returning to her cheeks.
âIndeed!â the Counsellor said with a smile. âSo if my math is correct your daughter will be sixty-four when the curse enters into effect.â
âThat is hardly what I would call a long and prosperous life!â the King protested.
âAh, but it does give her Royal Highness the Princess a lot more time to find this contractually necessary one true love,â his Counsellor explained. âQuite a reasonable amount of time I would say, if she happens to be of a romantic and monogamous persuasion, of course.â
The royal couple looked equal parts relieved and bewildered.
âBut thereâs no need to worry about that just yet,â the Counsellor said comfortingly. âAnd besides. Times are moving on. That is the entire reason we have the High Court of Magical Justice. Why, just last month a transformed prince was kissed back to human by his platonic life partner after successful litigation against the original layer of the curse! It is riveting caselaw.â
ââŚthis is a good thing, yes?â the King ventured.
âVery good,â the Counsellor nodded.
âWell then!â Her Majesty the Queen beamed. âIn that case, I say we continue the celebrations!â
âQuite right, Your Majesty, quite right,â the Counsellor said with a bow. âIf you need me, I shall be in my study.â
It is a tenet of contract law that the meanings of contractual language are construed against its drafters. I think it makes perfect sense to interpret the language of curses against their casters as well.
Better curse breaking through semantic specificity.
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My favorite scenes in the LotR books are the ones where Legolas has vital information and just decides it's not important to share.
Like when Gandalf spent literal PAGES trying to figure out why the vibes were off in Moria and Legolas chimes in with just "it's a balrog :) that shit's evil :) we're so fucked :)" like what do you MEAN you knew already and just didn't tell him??
Or at the beginning of Two Towers when Aragorn thinks there's something nearby so he puts his ear to the ground to listen, and then like 10 minutes later is like "hmmm i hear horses" and Legolas is just like "mm yep. there are 105 blond bitches with spears" like you just let your friend put his face in the dirt and you can SEE them??
Legolas please gain a sense of urgency
It's because legolas hasn't spent enough time with non-elves to remember that they don't know what he knows.
gandalf is scratching his head in moria, and legolas is thinking "oh man, the wizard noticed something off *besides* the obvious balrog that we all are aware of??"
"I wonder what aragorn is listening for? must be hard to hear, what with all of the horses. How many horses are there, actually? 1... 2... 3..."
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Felix Colgrave is awesome!
obsessed with this sign i saw taped up outside the bat room at the zoo yesterday. the enthusiasm, the hand-written note, the bat drawing.
Blackbird/koltrast. Värmland, Sweden (March 31, 2023).
in bengali (well, sylheti) there's also duplicating without he starting consonant and changing the first vowel a bit e.g.
zaitai nee = do you want to go, zaitai uitai nee = do you want to go etc (or maybe something like "do you want to go or what")
khaitai nee, khaitai uitai nee (do you want to eat or what)
i think that's only for verbs? i was sure there were multiple options for what to replace the start with but i can't think of nouns that don't have the T start replacement.
let's put Scooby and the gang in a genuine horror movie situation, i wanna see what these freaks are truly capable of
"didn't they already do this withâ" no. put them in a slasher film. put them in a BLOODBATH. put this van full of weirdoes in a Texas Chainsaw Massacre scenario i have FAITH in them
THEY'D DO WELL IN SAW
okay I'm thinking about this
not Saw specifically but a slasher with a legit body count. Summer camp slashers are overplayed but I think it really works because it's the type of thing the Scooby gang WOULD get caught up in.
like some of the counselors didn't show up (got got) so the head counselor calls his younger cousin to see if him and his friends can fill in last minute. They show up and they're a bunch of nerds, one of them even has an anxiety dog, and they don't have a big role at first. It seems like the movie is setting them up as cannon fodder.
and then the deaths start and suddenly the nerds are locked the fuck in. The little one with the glasses actually fixed the phone line and is taking stock of all their supplies in case the vehicles go out. The counselor's cousin who seemed like a himbo has set up a perimeter and made makeshift alarms for all the doors and windows, knows all the entry points. The anxious one and his dog are keeping the mood up with the snacks and activities that were supposed to be for the kids, making sure nobody panics and starts making dumb decisions. Somebody tried to grab the redhead and she flipped him over and had him zip-tied before anybody noticed. Weren't they a D&D group or something? What is happening???
Fuck the slasher movie just effectively becomes Home Alone but with Four Kevin McAllisters
Bro's fucked.
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at one point the kid with the anxiety dog says, "man, why does this keep happening? this is, like, the eighth time thid year!"
it's barely June. abruptly all the normal councilors understand a) why he has an anxiety dog, and b) why the dog has anxiety too.
one story I keep thinking about but will never write is a portal fantasy where the protagonist has to get back to earth before her prescription runs out
of course, needing to get back to earth for such a specific and adult reason isn't really a part of the genre identity and so it would go one of two ways
As a comedy: Protag is already aware that this happens sometimes. Magic leaking into our world is a well established problem on the scale of a sewage leak. The tiny talking fairy she meets when she falls into not-narnia tells her that she's the prophesized hero destined to defeat the dark lord and she's like lol no
More seriously: This version of the story would not be from our chronically ill protags perspective. Instead it would be from that of an honourable fantasy knight who has to choose between helping this odd woman get home within a month or completing their own important prophesied quest
#importantly in neither version of this story does she get to access healing magic in fantasy land that fixes her #being chronically ill requires forward planning and I'd want to contrast between wanting a glorious life #and being scared that your health can't handle it #Or knowing that the admin side of things makes a quest impossible (@roundedloaf)