Mark Smith, MSW

I'm a Family Therapist who sees Individuals/Couples/Families. I'm also a Collaborative Divorce Coach & Parenting Coordinator.

[Cleverly 💐 @Cleverlydey4u]

Who made this?😳 this match is going to be a MOVIE 🔥

[World Best @World_aib]

Vancouver, Canada

[Allen Braden @allen_explains]

Your iPhone camera is worse than a $400 Android phone.

Not because of the hardware.

Because Apple ships it with settings designed for people who don't give a damn about photo quality.

I changed 7 settings yesterday and my photos went from looking like screenshots to actual photography.

Same lens.
Same phone.
Night and day difference.

Here's what nobody tells you: ⤵️

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Someone recreated “Lose Yourself” by stitching together 187 random movie clips to form the lyrics.

[🎞️ Ross Thompson / RjSuspect]

[Maximiliano Bretos @MaxBretosSports]

Imagine you are heading to Times Square NYC to see “Les Miserables” and you stumble into this …
#Norway play #Senegal tomorrow at MetLife Stadium

[Skint Eastwood @Skint_Eastwood1]

🚨 “WOW!” Joe Rogan Was Absolutely Mind-Blown By This iPhone/iPad Addiction Hack 🔥

His guest, Chase Hughes, dropped the ultimate parental (and personal) life hack:

“I did it on my 2-year-old’s iPad… and nothing is addictive anymore. She won’t sit there and stare at it for more than 3 or 4 minutes anymore.”

Joe’s reaction? A shocked “Whoaa!”

The trick? A simple red color tint filter in your device’s Accessibility settings. It strips away the bright, colorful, dopamine-spiking visuals that keep us (and kids) glued to screens, while also cutting blue light for better sleep.

One quick change. Massive difference in screen time and focus.

Try it yourself:

1Settings → Accessibility → Display & Text Size → Color Filters

2Turn on Color Filters → Color Tint

3Slide Hue all the way to red + max Intensity

Works on iPhone and iPad. You can even set a triple-click shortcut to toggle it instantly.

[FWC26Vancouver @FWC26Vancouver]

Chills. Absolute chills. 🥹⁣
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Thousands of fans marching as one to watch history on home soil. 🍁⁣
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#WeAreVancouver #WeAre26

[Mark Smith, MSW @1marksmith]

@TheresaLubowitz Fair point~

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

At least they are not glued to an iPad 👏

[History Nerd @_HistoryNerd]

Bernard Albertson has lived through more history than most people will ever read about, and this morning he wants to talk to young people about what it takes to accomplish things:

Consider who's speaking.

This is a man who started out driving a Model A car. He remembers the first jet airplane. He watched the iceman deliver ice to an ice box, lifting it off a mule-drawn wagon.

He's now recording himself on a brand-new computer he admits he's still figuring out. One lifetime, stretched across that much change.

But he didn't come from comfort. He had a difficult childhood. He lived in the back of an old car. And his message, delivered with the authority of someone who earned it, is blunt:

"There's no excuse for people not being able to do what they want to do. You can do anything that you want to do."

He offers his own life as the evidence. From the back of that car, he taught himself to read and write. He went on to have five books published, got a little college, studied scripture for many years, and raised five children.

He has also buried a mother, father, sister, brother, wife, and daughter.

To prove to himself that he was not an ignorant person, he bought a blackboard and a correspondence course in computer programming, and he completed the entire thing on that blackboard.

His central instruction:

"Forge ahead, don't stop, never stop learning, always reach out to better yourself, because when you do that things expand, you understand more, you're happier, you're healthier."

His reasoning is the old saying that "if you don't use it, you lose it." The brain God put in your head, he warns, is the same way.

Neglect it long enough and one day you'll be sitting on a front porch somewhere, hardly knowing what's going on.

On hard times, he offers perspective drawn from having seen so much come and go:

"Good things nor bad things last forever, but most generally we are in control of our own destiny."

That control, for Bernard, is practical.

If you're not getting ahead, you have to do something to let yourself get ahead.

"If you want a good job, if you want a secure future, you have to have something to offer a prospective employer." It doesn't have to be a PhD or a master's.

He points especially to the trades, predicting that "people that know how to work with their hands are going to be in great demand," naming plumbers, electricians, carpenters, cement layers, machine operators, and mechanics.

He closes by speaking directly to the young, wherever they are in the world, from Asia to Africa to Korea to Japan to the United States:

"You're the backbone of this country, you're the backbone of the world… you are the leaders, the future leaders of this world."

His final advice is to reach out, be yourself, and not be afraid to go after what you need.

[Matthew LaBosco @matthew_labosco]

Dr. Stephen Porges created Polyvagal Theory, the science of how your body decides it's safe.

His most counterintuitive finding: you cannot willpower your way to calm.

Your nervous system is the most powerful medicine you have. 7 steps to reset it:

1. Stop trying to relax.

[The Sigma Mindset @thesigmamindset]

This will change the way you see you MIND ‼️‼️

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A British psychologist spent her PhD years proving that something as stupidly simple as chewing gum can change how the human brain stores information, and the reason it works is stranger than it sounds.

Her name is Lucy Wilkinson.

She was a PhD student at Northumbria University in Newcastle when she designed the experiment that would put chewing gum into the cognitive science literature for the first time in any serious way.

The paper was published in 2002 in the journal Appetite, and it was one of those rare studies that sounded like a joke when you read the abstract and turned out to hold up the moment you read the data.

The experiment was deceptively simple.

Wilkinson and her supervisors recruited 75 healthy young adults, and divided them into three groups to take a 20-minute battery of memory and attention tests.

The first group was chewing gum the whole session.

The second group moved their jaws as if they were chewing but had no gum in their mouth at all.

The third group sat still, and did nothing with their jaws.

Then everyone took the same tests, which included immediate word recall, delayed word recall, working memory for numbers and spatial memory tasks.

The part nobody had expected were the results.

Gum chewers were significantly better than the no-gum control group on both immediate and delayed word recall. Same words, same test, same brain on the other side of the desk, and the group with a piece of gum in their mouth just remembered more of them.

The weirdest part of the finding was what happened to the second group, the one that was mimicking the chewing motion without any gum in their mouths. They did not gain the same benefit. Just moving the jaw was not enough. But it was something about actually chewing a piece of gum that was causing the effect.

That detail was what made the paper interesting rather than dismissible, because it meant the explanation couldn’t just be that jaw movement keeps people alert. Something deeper was afoot that the field would spend the next 20 years trying to untangle.

The follow-up experiment that explained the most likely mechanism was done by John Aggleton’s team from Cardiff University two years later. One set of participants was asked to chew gum while learning a list of words and then chew gum later on 24 hours later while trying to remember the same words. A second group was asked to chew gum only during learning.

A third group chewed gum just during recall. A fourth group did not eat any.

The group that chewed gum at learning and recall did the best by a wide margin. Those who chewed at only one or the other stage did about as well as the no-gum group.

What the result showed was that chewing gum wasn’t just improving memory in some general way. It was behaving as what psychologists refer to as a context cue.

Your brain does not store memories as isolated bits of facts floating in a void. It saves them with the full context around it . The room you were in , the sounds around you , the mood you were in , even the physical state of your body when you encoded them . When you try to remember something later, your brain goes to those context cues to find the file.

If the context at recall is the same as the context at learning, the memory will come back faster and cleaner. If the context is different the file is more difficult to reach.

One small but reliable physical state that the brain was using as one of those context tags turned out to be chewing gum. The regular motion of the jaws, the flavour of the tongue, the steady low level of mouth activity were being filed away with the words being learned. The brain was quicker at pulling up the file when it was in the same physical state at recall.

And there was a second mechanism built into that. Other studies have looked at blood flow to the brain while chewing and found it to increase about 25 percent. One such study was done in 2001 by Sasaki in Japan.

Other investigators have reported faster times on cognitive processing and improvement on sustained attention tasks while chewing gum. Chewing appears to push the brain into a somewhat more aroused state, making it better able to hold onto information over a task that takes minutes rather than seconds.

The next part is the real part of the story.

Wilkinson’s finding of an improvement in immediate recall was not reproduced in two independent efforts to replicate this in 2004 and 2005. Other studies replicated the context-dependent effect, but claimed that the simple alertness boost was only real under certain conditions, such as when the task was long and demanding, rather than short and easy.

The best evidence from two decades of research is that chewing gum has a measurable effect on cognition, but the effect is conditional and is most reliably observed in tasks requiring sustained attention, working memory under load, and recall benefitting from matching the encoding state to the retrieval state.

What all the critics agree on is the deeper finding under the original headline. Your brain is not a neat filing cabinet, where information is stored separate from the body that took it in. Your physical state at the time you learn is part of the memory itself, so anything you can recreate at the time of recall can give you a small edge in getting the file back.

That is why students who study in the same room that they will take the exam in, often do better. That is why you remember your dreams better if you wake up in the same position you fell asleep in. Which is why a smell can pluck a memory out of decades-old storage faster than any conscious effort can. The index contains the body.

Chewing gum is just the cheapest, weirdest, most available form of that mechanism ever tested by anyone.

Next time you have something difficult to remember, try the experiment yourself. Chew a particular flavour of gum as you study. Before you sit down to review what you learned, have another chew of the same flavour. The gum is not doing the job. The gum is acting as a thread for your brain to follow back to where the information was stored.

The most powerful memory tool you own is not your willpower or your intelligence.

It is the physical state of your body the moment you decide to pay attention.

[Matthew LaBosco @matthew_labosco]

A Stanford neuroscientist said:

"Two inhales through the nose, then one long exhale — to my knowledge, the fastest way to calm down in real time."

No pill. No supplement. No 20-minute meditation. Big Pharma is panicking: 🧵

[NukeTaco ™️🇺🇸 @TacoforFive1]

This is for all of you that want homemade bread but don’t have the time for sourdough.

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

This is a clip that is so on point it may be very uncomfortable for some to watch. However, the Chinese man featured in the clip is saying out loud what I have written about at length and many academics have articulated.

You’ll have to excuse the captions which struggles with his Chinese accent, but that doesn’t detract from the message.

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/FvZxHZpe4Z

[Harman @itsharmanjot]

10 WEBSITES YOU WILL THANK ME FOR LATER.

Save this list. Almost nobody knows half of these exist.

1. https://t.co/4LCGCzR8rk
A map of every music genre ever invented. Click any dot, hear a sample, find your next favorite band.

2. https://t.co/8YTZ37L87m
Daily screenshots of any website over time. Watch competitors and trends evolve visually.

3. https://t.co/nawRBLoSaD
Refreshes a brand new AI generated face every time you load the page.

4. https://t.co/pFa9LuUsRP
Tune into any radio station on earth by rotating a 3D globe. Mesmerizing.

5. https://t.co/rwhOwnV42E
Watches every email, tweet, search, and gigabyte happen on the internet in real time.

6. https://t.co/k7pWQLQBUD
Saves any webpage forever, even ones behind paywalls. The Wayback Machine's faster cousin.

7. https://t.co/RqbEGjmayz
Strips every ad, popup, and tracker from any article before printing or saving as PDF.

8. https://t.co/EaVE3HaDeZ
Installs every common Windows app at once with no toolbars, no spam, no clicks. The cleanest setup on earth.

9. https://t.co/FNk6Ncczji
Type the ingredients in your fridge. Get a list of recipes you can make right now. No signup.

10. https://t.co/Ed1stFvy2M
A weather map that animates wind, rain, and pressure across the entire planet in real time.

The best discoveries on the internet are still the small, weird, free ones.

Pass this list on. The internet is more fun than the algorithm wants you to know.

[Kenneth Chan @iamkennethchan]

Sweeping aerial video footage provided by Grouse Mountain showing the world's largest Canada flag on a ski run, visible from across Metro Vancouver. 🇨🇦

It took 70+ people to unfurl this summertime installation. #FIFAWorldCup #WeAreVancouver 2/2

https://t.co/ADi6WN4Mzn

[Dr Rangan Chatterjee @drchatterjeeuk]

The 10,000 step target we've all heard of has no scientific basis. And as Dr Courtney Conley explains, the good news is that the real number is much more achievable than most people think.

Adding just 1,000 steps to your daily count, roughly 10 minutes of walking, can meaningfully reduce your risk of dementia, depression and all-cause mortality. It really is that simple.

Whether you're 25 or 75, whether you walk for five minutes or five hours, I genuinely believe this conversation will shift the way you move through the world.

In this week's new episode of my 'Feel Better, Live More' podcast, Dr Courtney Conley and I explore what the research really says about steps, strength and longevity, and what it means for your daily life.

Listen now to episode 660 to hear more.

[El Club del Arte 🎨📷📚🖼🕍🎼 @Arteymas_]

Ocho minutos sublimes… 😍😍😍

Claude Monet no pintaba el mundo; pintaba el aire que se interpone entre él y las cosas.

Su pincel era un sismógrafo de la luz, capaz de registrar los latidos cromáticos de la atmósfera en un instante fugaz.

Para Monet, la realidad no estaba compuesta de formas sólidas o contornos definidos, sino de la vibración pura del color bajo el impacto del sol.

Este es un corto animado o animación digital estilizada inspirada por el uso del color de Monet.