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[Pokemon TCG Restocks & News @PokemonRestocks]

First look at Pokemon x Starbucks Collaboration Releasing in Japan on September 30th! ✨ #Pokemon

[GameRant @GameRant]

It's official: Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen players can get Celebi for free very soon. https://t.co/syJYd5E0DT

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

Guinea Pigs Jump Across From Rug to Rug

[ClarkQuill97 @CQuill97]

"I just wish you could all see the Earth the way that I see it. Because when you really look at it, it's just one world." - Superman

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

New look at Earth.

(Source: Artemis II Crew)

[Maximilian Uriarte @TLCplMax]

Having a new moon mission with like 8K footage all the way is so dope

[ToonHive @ToonHive]

16 years ago today, Sanic the Hedgehog was created.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

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.

[Fanatics Collect @Collect]

A Stanford study found that people who played Pokémon heavily as kids developed a small region of the brain that responds specifically to Pokémon characters.

Researchers scanned adults who grew up playing on Game Boy and showed them images of Pokémon like Pikachu and Bulbasaur.

Their brains lit up in the same exact spot, a consistent area in the visual cortex tied to recognizing specific categories of objects.

The reason comes down to childhood. When you’re young, your brain is more flexible, and spending hours memorizing hundreds of similar-looking Pokémon essentially trained it to carve out space just for them.

(via @Stanford)

[💧 @gojokuns_]

"His fury toward Mahito is absolute because Mahito treats human identity as malleable material.

Yuji’s instinct is preservation. Mahito’s instinct is distortion. In this contrast, we glimpse Yuji’s true “technique”: reverence."

😭😭😭😭

[ヴァニラ @Vanila_Ice_Ice]

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[Cinema Wire 🎥🎞️ @CinemaWireNews]

Tom Cruise is reportedly being eyed to play the villain in Joseph Kosinski’s ‘MIAMI VICE’ film.

If Cruise takes the role, he will be joining Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler.

(Source: @DanielRPK)

[eStarland @eStarland]

Today is the 23rd anniversary of Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire! ♥️💙

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

First look at Martin Scorsese's next film ‘WHAT HAPPENS AT NIGHT’, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence.

The film follows a married couple who travel to a small European town to adopt a baby but nothing is quite as it seems.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

‘Project Hail Mary’ debuts with a score of 95% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 40 reviews.

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

‘Project Hail Mary’ is now Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with 95% 🍅

One of the highest-rated sci-fi films in years

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

Tokyo Metro has customized one of its lines as Ditto to promote the release of Pokémon Pokopia

[manganimist @manganimist]

this about to go triple platinum as a reaction gif

[Architectural Art (A-A) @4AAAAart]

1980s Piaget ellipse ref. 9825 D11*