Wiz Khalifa says his 13-year-old son brings his aroma everywhere he goes and speaks on the struggle of trying to send him to school without him smelling like weed 😭🍃
“he goes to school everyday and I’m like you smell like weed bruh? he like ‘uh yeah,’ I’m like f-ck, cause I don’t smoke right by him, my house just smells like kush”
The research behind this is wild. If you played Pokémon as a kid, you have a tiny region in your brain that exists only because of Pokémon. Not a metaphor. Stanford put people in brain scanners and found it.
The study was published in Nature Human Behavior in 2019. They scanned 11 adults who grew up glued to their Game Boys and 11 who never played. When they showed both groups images of the original 151, the players' brains lit up in one specific spot every time. Same spot across all 11 people. The non-players showed zero response.
That spot is a little fold in the back of your brain that normally processes things like animal shapes and cartoon faces. In the Pokémon players, a chunk of it had been permanently reassigned. Their brains carved out a Pokémon department sometime around age 6 or 7 and just never took it down.
And the reason it ended up in the same place in everyone's brain comes down to the Game Boy itself. The screen was 2.6 inches. Every kid held it at roughly the same distance. So those 151 characters hit the exact same patch of each kid's retina, thousands of times, during the years when the brain is still soft enough to reorganize itself. Where an image hits your retina in childhood is what tells your brain where to build the wiring.
Reading works the same way. Humans invented writing about 5,000 years ago. There's zero evolutionary reason for a brain region dedicated to recognizing words. But every person who learns to read grows one, roughly the size of a dime, in the same part of the brain.
Brain-imaging research from 2018 actually watched it appear in children's heads as they learned their letters. It grew by quietly taking over nearby tissue that wasn't doing much yet. Stanford published a follow-up this year showing this region is way smaller or missing entirely in kids with dyslexia, and that 8 weeks of intense reading practice physically grew it back.
London taxi drivers show the same thing in a completely different part of the brain. Brain scans from a 2000 study found the region that stores mental maps had physically expanded, and the longer they'd been driving, the bigger it got. These drivers spend 3 to 4 years memorizing 25,000 streets before they get licensed. About half wash out.
The common thread is childhood. Harvard researchers trained young monkeys to recognize new shapes and they developed brand-new brain regions in predictable locations. Adult monkeys trained on the same shapes never got those structural changes. The young brain wires itself in a way the adult brain cannot replicate.
If you're wondering whether a Pokémon patch in your brain means you lost something else, no. The region sits alongside your normal visual processing areas, not on top of them. Your brain has hundreds of millions of neurons in that zone alone. The lead author noted that every participant in the study had gone on to earn a PhD.
@BackersGamesF Epic is in contact with the family and will solve the insurance for them. There is high confidentiality around medical information and it was not a factor in this layoff decision. Sorry to everyone for not recognizing this terribly painful situation and handling it in advance.
THE ACCURSED PRINCE AWAKENS.
Watch the new official trailer for the Elbaph Arc of ONE PIECE. The anime resumes in Japan as the Straw Hat Crew sets sail for a new adventure.
Premieres April 5, 2026 at 11:15 PM JST
♪OPENING THEME: “Luminous” by AiNA THE END
Don’t miss the beginning of the next chapter.
🚨🚨 Breaking: 24-year-old Vallen Ada Marie Hrabb has been charged with 26 felonies in Florida for r*ping her own dog and possessing child p*rn of infants.
She admitted to making 5-7 animal s*x videos when she was “bored” and sharing them with others. She said a friend introduced her to it and she liked it.
Hrabb was released on $65,000 bond.
@truthsupermax@ThatOnePole Considering you’re constantly being a pathetic coward on Twitter towards people you convinced yourself pure superior to, you NEED to be repenting for that Instead of using Gods name as a false justification to be a vile person with the most pathetic mindset possible All over ur x
They’re about to start enlisting inmates with marijuana charges instead of just releasing them back into society…..and they’re gonna try and brand it as some 2nd chance program ass bullshit just to send black people to their deaths
So I just learned that Chappell Roan’s name is Kayleigh and that she came from a wealthy and conservative family in Missouri. Her uncle is literally a republican politician 😭
No wonder she was very hesitant to endorse Kamala last election 💀
Just means he did not deserve that money to begin with if he could not take care of it and live off it. Buying bullshit just so people see he got “money” 💀
A dislike of filler is a weak minded attitude. Enjoy spending time living in a world with its characters and stop treating shows like a narrative checklist.
Some of these guys get blessed in life and can’t even do the bare minimun to elevate themselves to a position where they won’t ever have to work or establish themselves, and kai you a weird mf now
Ray broke down in tears last night on stream revealing how he’s going broke and only had $12k to his name after Kai Cenat stopped paying his $25,000 monthly allowance 😳
“I think Kai sold his soul , I really looked at him as a brother but he blocked me because i went broke”
See how they shift the focus onto something else? Everytime something big is about to happen they divert the attention so its easier to cover up and make it seem like nothing wasever there
Many ARC Raiders players are claiming they were prepared for Expedition 2 with sufficient stash value and submitted items.
However, they assumed they would be automatically opted in during the window. Since that didn't happen, they are now frustrated with Embark. 🤣